Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Chemical Engineering: Shaping a Sustainable Future
You have identified which United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals chemical engineers are meeting to deliver a sustainable future for energy supply, food security and healthcare. You have explored the role of a chemical engineer in the development of personalised medicine and which digital tools they are using. You have explored a chemical engineer's role in developing household products and compared the potential career choices of chemical engineers.
2 weeks, 2 hours per week
Dr Nicole Hondow
Associate Professor & Director of Student Education in the School of Chemical and Process Engineering
University of Leeds
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Describe how chemical engineering can help tackle climate change
- Explore a chemical engineer’s role in delivering a sustainable future for energy supply, food security and healthcare
- Identify which United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) chemical engineers are meeting to deliver a sustainable future
- Explain the role of a chemical engineer in the development of personalised medicine
- Identify the digital tools which chemical engineers use to produce personalised medicine
- Compare the potential career choices of chemical engineers
- Explore the chemical engineer’s role in producing household products.
Syllabus
- Introduction to chemical engineering with a focus on how chemical engineers are tackling global sustainability challenges and the impact this will have.
- How human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation have significantly increased the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and has led to climate change.
- How chemical engineers play a role in delivering some of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals to tackle climate change.
- The role of chemical engineers in the development of future of healthcare products.
- How chemical engineers scale-up vaccine production to meet global demand.
- How chemical engineers play a pivotal role in developing and producing the medicines of the future.
- How digital design will lead to the development of personalised medicines.
- How the future of chemical engineering will touch on all aspects of life, and the ethical considerations of this.
Issued on 23rd September 2026
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