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鈥淲hat does society need; what are the desirable outcomes and how can chemical engineers work in partnership with others to make it happen?鈥�                                                     (Chemical Engineering Matters, p.5, IChemE, 2014)

 

The areas of research interest to Process & Chemical Engineering at UCC cohere readily with both local (process industry and societal) imperatives and broader contemporary professional disciplinary goals as articulated by the professional institution, the Institution of Chemical Engineers (though their 鈥� (IChemE, 2007), and most recently in their 鈥楥hemical Engineering Matters鈥� policy document (IChemE , (2nd ed.)). These are demonstrated in the figure below, which maps UCC Process & Chemical activity (indicated by a smiley icon) onto respective professional disciplinary imperatives as identified by IChemE. 

UCC Process & Chemical Engineering and contemporary Chemical Engineering research imperatives (IChemE, 2012)

 

Specifically, Process & Chemical research interests at UCC lie in the three broad (and often overlapping) domains (pillars) of:

  • FOOD & DRINK
  • PHARMACEUTICAL & BIOPHARMACEUTICAL 
  • SOCIETAL WELLBEING

Within these domains, research interests of staff extend to the following specific cross cutting areas:

This research landscape is graphically represented by an analogous diagram in the figure below, whereby the specific research interests cross cut disciplinary research pillar domains, which in turn may ultimately feed into (as with the IChemE diagram) overall enhanced 鈥楺uality of life鈥�, a key contemporary imperative for chemical, and indeed all, engineers.    

 

UCC Process & Chemical Engineering Research competencies

Within the university, Process & Chemical Engineering aims to play a role as an important hub discipline in facilitating the achievement of university and inter/national research imperatives. This can manifest itself in the discipline exhibiting a number of research facets: in food, bio/pharma and societal wellbeing. The wheel figure below graphically demonstrates how the discipline articulates the development of this hub position across the three fundamental research pillars, as an 鈥榓xial鈥� discipline around which it can interact with other disciplines, respective industry sectors, and research initiatives to align with emerging national and international research imperatives. These include for example, the EU Horizon 2020 programme, aimed at 鈥楨U Research and Innovation Tackling Societal Challenges鈥� or the Irish Government鈥檚 鈥業nnovation 2020鈥� which seeks to address 鈥楪rand Societal Challenges鈥�.

 

The axial nature of UCC Process & Chemical Engineering research pillars

Process and Chemical Engineering

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