Chemical Engineering Management

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2010:

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For long term sustainability, a company must focus on its Triple Bottom Line (Financial performance. Environmental performance and a Sociological performance). The objective of this course is to expose students to the key parameters needed to set and manage performance criteria in each of those areas. Students successfully completing this unit will have developed an appreciation of project development and the profitability analysis of projects, environmental management and sustainable development, the management of safety, and other managerial issues affecting the engineer.

This subject will include the following topics:

• Financial performance: The stages of a Project; How to carryout a Feasibility Study; Revenue, Capital & Operating Cost Forecasting; Simple Accounting; Profitability Analysis and Applications; Project Management & Networks.
• Environmental performance: Sustainable Development: Global Warming & Emission control; Water Management.
• Sociological performance: Occupational Health & Safety (incl. Safety Management, P&IDs & Hazop); Ethical issues facing the engineer; Industrial Relations; Product Development & Intellectual Property; Legal issues facing the chemical engineer.

• Explain the professional and ethical responsibilities of an engineer;
• Discuss a broad range of managerial issues affecting the engineer
• Utilize the principles of sustainable design and development and of safety management to evaluate the feasibility of engineering proposals complete a profitability analysis of an engineering project

• Assignments, each not exceeding a total of 3000 words plus accompanying tables and calculations, due throughout the semester (40% of the total mark)
• A final examination of three hours (60%).

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This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

• Understanding the professional and ethical responsibilities of an engineer;
• Understanding of the principles of sustainable design and development;
• Ability and self-confidence to comprehend complex concepts, to express them lucidly and to confront unfamiliar problems.