Chemical Engineering Aalborg University

Overview

Through the you will be able to combine your creative and technical skills and focus on research and development within chemical and chemical-related production.

Studying Chemical Engineering at Aalborg University (Esbjerg Campus), will help you become a highly skilled technical expert, and you will learn to consider the importance of economic and environmental aspects. You will learn to work, collaborate and navigate in an international academic environment, often in close collaboration with industry.

The program gives you the skill set for working in a globalized world and prepares you for life after graduation. You will gain knowledge about the chemical industry and consultancy and how it is organized and operates. In well-equipped laboratories you will be able to tests your ideas and concepts and you will learn to develop mathematical models of the processes you are investigating and to apply different types of software for simulation and optimization.

Career opportunities:

Job opportunities are excellent when graduating from the Chemical Engineering program. Your future workplace could be in consultancy, the public sector or the private industrial sector. 

During the study programme, you use the PBL method and you work in groups, which will give you many useful skills that make you an attractive candidate on the job market. You know how to approach a problem and solve it in collaboration with other people, which is a very useful skill to have in your future job. 

You are qualified to work with:

• Offshore processes
• Reservoir engineering
• Development of new materials for e.g. medical equipment
• Working environment as a consultant for e.g. the polymer industry
• Development of catalysts for e.g. abatement of air pollution
• Development of computer models of refinery processes
• Optimisation of production of enzymes

• Quality control at e.g. a food manufacturer

Boost your career readiness with E.1 First Job:

As a student at Aalborg University Esbjerg you can join the "E1 First Job"-program, which is designed to ease the transition from student to employee. Through engaging workshops, personalised career consultations and networking events, you'll learn effective career readiness strategies to help land your first job.