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Chemical and process engineering

Award Attendance Study Duration Start Domestic fees International fees
MSc On-Campus Full-time 2 October find out €2739 per year
Course fee notes

Our tuition fees will not exceed 2700 euros per year. Scholarship and fee waivers are available for international students, for more information visit our website.

About Chemical and process engineering, MSc - at University of Padua

The Master’s degree programme trains professionals able to interpret, formalize and solve complex problems related to the design, operation and optimization of industrial processes where chemical, physical and biochemical transformations of material and energy are carried out. Focusing on raw materials selection, process and equipment design and operation, safety and environmental management as well as cross-disciplinary issues, the programme offers both strong theoretical and application-oriented courses fostering skills and knowledge for sustainable engineering deployment in future society.

This is a European-accredited Master engineering program according to the EUR-ACE system.

Programme structure

1st Year (required courses): Multiphase thermodynamics and transfer phenomena; Separation unit operations; Chemical reaction engineering; Process and Fluid dynamics simulation; Industrial process safety and risk analysis; Industrial chemical processes

2nd Year (required courses and activities): Process dynamics and control; Process design; Final project

Elective courses (short list): Machine Learning for Process Engineering; Electrochemical energy storage technologies; Process technologies for carbon-neutral fuels; Membrane separation processes; Particle technology for the food and pharmaceutical industries; Polymer processing and recycling; Strategic environmental management; Business management; Food and bioproduct technologies; Industrial Processes for Bio-based and Specialty Chemicals; Fundamentals of 3D Bioprinting.

Career opportunities

Graduates are freelance or employed engineers working in chemical, petrochemical, oil, food, pharmaceutical, biotechnological industry; electronics, automotive and aerospace manufacturing industry; production, processing, and recycling of materials; energy; engineering and construction; environmental protection, circular economy, process safety; patent offices, academic and research institutions.

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