PROCESS ENGINEERING at Canterbury Christ Church University

This degree apprenticeship has been co-designed with pharmaceutical, cosmetic, food, drink, chemical, and water companies. Apprentices will learn through designing, implementing, commissioning, operating and maintaining process systems to ensure process quality and efficient reliability. Apprentices will be supported to develop as Process Engineers through working with a range of scientific and engineering teams to:

• Translate a set of bench top experimental procedures into larger scale production reality
• Operate and maintain existing API processes
• Commercially and safely produce and distribute commercial products
• Commission and decommission processes
• Service and clean process systems
• Process water material.

Why study Process Engineering

This course is available to applicants via an apprenticeship scheme. The aim of the apprenticeship is to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of process engineering. It integrates academic learning at degree level with your full-time work experience. As you are employed as an apprentice throughout the programme, you will apply what you learn in the classroom to real-industry situations. At the same time, you will bring real industry challenges into the classroom to help develop a deeper understanding of process engineering.

What will i study?

The apprenticeship degree includes a 3-year taught work/study programme with an additional 6 months set aside for completing the compulsory End Point Assessment (EPA). As part of the apprenticeship standard requirements, you are required to have 20% of your working week dedicated to off-job apprenticeship learning (1 day in 5).

Each academic year consists of 120 credits of study, typically 40 credits per trimester. Each trimester is 15 weeks, and consists of:

• 10 weeks of 1 day a week off-the-job in class studying at Canterbury Christ Church Campus or partner institution
• 5 weeks of 1 day off-the job degree assessment and/or directed/self-study activities.

Our Engineering Apprenticeships adopt the CDIO (Conceive, Design, Implement and Operate) engineering education model, developed by the MIT. CDIO has been shown to develop and produce ‘industry-ready’ engineers and will assist in producing the right engineers for the local economy.