Chemical Engineering Management

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2008:

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For long term sustainability, a company must focus on it's 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.

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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.