The University of Manchester
Karuna’s experience on a summer Industrial Placement
Industrial Experience 17 February 2021
Karuna is a final year MEng Chemical Engineering student and in this guest blog post shares their experiences of a summer internship in the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industry.
IChemE prize success for CE design project
Student experience 30 June 2020
A team from The University of Manchester have been awarded the IChemE Macnab-Lacey Prize for their sustainable chemical engineering design project.
#ChemEngCatchUp Episode 9 – Professor Chris Hardacre
Meet the Department 30 August 2018
Our heterogeneous catalysis research is based on sold materials, either in a gaseous environment or a liquid environment. And these are used for emission control, for example in a car exhaust. Or to make fine chemicals or to make clean, sustainable energy.
#ChemEngCatchUp Episode 14 – Dr Philip Martin
Meet the Department 24 February 2017
And on top of that there’s the MECD project, where we’re bringing the engineering schools together. It’s really quite an exciting period in the development of the University and I’m really looking forward to being involved and working in that building.
#ChemEngCatchUp Episode 13 – Prof Kostas Theodoropoulos
Meet the Department 27 January 2017
It’s a place of global interest, it attracts the best people from all over the world, and that’s the first thing you need to drive your research forward. So, it’s very important.
#ChemEngCatchUp Episode 11 – Dr Vahid Niasar
Meet the Department 15 November 2016
If I was going to be really honest I’d say that, from childhood, I was inspired by my uncle. My uncle is a civil engineer. He’s working in different disciplines but the major discipline is in the hydro powers and electricity, these types of thing. But by education he was a civil engineer.
Teaching with Tom Rodgers
Meet the Department 31 October 2016
The best thing about teaching is helping students to develop their skills and knowledge. It is great to explain concepts to students and then see how they start to understand and are then able to take those ideas and solve complex problems.
Recognition for a Young Chemical Engineer in Research
Research and impact 5 October 2016
My research focuses on carbon capture technologies, aiming to reduce its impact on climate change and global warming. My work employs the application of metal organic frameworks (MOFs) for carbon dioxide capture. MOFs are a class of porous physical adsorbents that attract carbon dioxide selectively and store it in their porous frameworks.
#ChemEngCatchUp Episode 10 – Emily Cooksey
Meet the Department 30 September 2016
All of those things make it quite harmful to the environment. So as with a lot of other technologies at the moment, we’re trying to find cleaner ways of doing things. So my research is based on a cleaner way of cleaning our waste water.
#ChemEngCatchUp Episode 7 – Tom Rodgers
Meet the Department 27 June 2016
My research involves the manufacture of formulated products. So I think a lot of people would recognise formulated products as, sort of, everyday items that they use. So things like shampoos, conditioners, toothpaste. And ice cream and mayonnaise and things like that.