ENCH486-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025

Special Topic in Chemical and Process Engineering

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2025
End Date: Sunday, 22 June 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 2 March 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 11 May 2025

Description

Special Topic in Chemical and Process Engineering

ENCH486 will be exclusive for students who:
a) pursue the Environmental Process Engineering Minor. These students are required to take ENCH486.
b) take all 4 Special Topics to fulfill the elective requirements in their BE(Hon). These students must take ENCH486 and ENCH487 at the same time.

This paper teaches students advanced material in a range of specialist areas within Chemical and Process Engineering in Semester 1. Each topic (unit) will be taught independently giving students the freedom to explore whichever specialist area they desire. Students taking ENCH486 will take Unit 1: Industrial air pollution control, as well as one other specialist topic.

The specialist topics available are:

Unit 2: Advanced modelling methods
Unit 3: Advanced data analysis for chemical engineering
Unit 4: Project management for chemical engineers

Learning Outcomes

  • Develop an in-depth understanding of two specialist topics within Chemical and Process Engineering
  • Adapt and apply general Chemical and Process Engineering knowledge to the chosen specialist topics

    Additional Learning Outcomes for each specific unit are as follows:

    a) Industrial air pollution control (co-coded with existing course ENGR405)
    o Analyze strategies, legal requirements and appropriate mitigation and treatment technologies for industrial air pollution control.
    o Able to design selected treatment technologies.
    o Apply the concept of Kaitiakitanga and understand each engineer’s role as stewards of the environment.
    b) Advanced modelling and simulation
    o Numerical methods for the simulation of chemical processes.
    o Optimization theory, deterministic and stochastic modelling
    o Empirical parameter estimation for chemical processes
    o Practical guidance on the implementation of these tools to a variety of problems

    c) Advanced data analysis for chemical engineering
    o Ability to import and export data in a range of formats.
    o Select and implement techniques to clean data.
    o Develop databases in Excel to analyse data.
    o Design appropriate methods of presenting information, including those commonly used in statistical process control.
    o Develop a dashboard for handling complex data.

    d) Project management for chemical engineers
    o Ability to conduct a successful project.
    o Develop stakeholder engagement plans for complex engineering projects
    o Select and apply tools and techniques to plan complex projects, accounting for the scope, scheduling, cost, quality, resources, and risk
    o Select and apply appropriate project management tools to monitor, control and evaluate project delivery performance and value
    o Demonstrate effective communication to help ensure successful delivery of complex projects.

Prerequisites

Subject to the approval of the Director of Studies.

Timetable Note

Each unit will comprise a total workload of 75 hours. The specific workload will differ slightly for each unit but will closely follow the following model:

Lectures                        15 hours
Student-led reading        15 hours
Assignments (2)        30 hours
Test/Exam preparation 15 hours

Course Coordinator

Alex Yip

Lecturers

James Robinson , Ken Morison , Fred Herritsch and Rachael Wood

Assessment

Each unit will be considered carefully to ensure equal workload, adequate and comparable difficulty level for all students, regardless of which units are taken.

Students must achieve at least 40% in any one unit (i.e., at least 20% of the overall course grade from each unit) to pass ENCH486.

The final course grade will be calculated from the performance in the two chosen units equally. For example, Final course grade (100%) = Unit 1 (50%) + Unit 3 (50%)

Textbooks / Resources

None required, though students will be expected to source relevant material for the specific units to supplement the material taught in class.

Notes

All Chemical and Process Engineering courses follow a standard set of academic policies, which are available to all Chemical and Process Engineering students on Learn

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,122.00

International fee $6,238.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Minimum enrolments

This course will not be offered if fewer than 10 people apply to enrol.

For further information see Chemical and Process Engineering .

All ENCH486 Occurrences

  • ENCH486-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025
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