Postgraduate Courses

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Identify and predict properties of heterogeneous catalysts for chemical reactions.
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  Design catalysts and catalytic reactions for chemical conversion and transformation.
• 3.
  Apply fundamental principles of chemistry and chemical engineering in selection, design and preparation of catalytic materials.
• 4.
  Create expert knowledge in methodologies and instrumentations for characterizing catalysts.
• 5.
  Design process for the manufacture of heterogeneous catalysts.
• 6.
  Design catalytic reactor and integrate the use of catalyst in such reactor system.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Identify and predict properties of adsorbents and membranes for given separation processes.
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  Design an adsorption/membrane process for the separation of a mixture.
• 3.
  Apply fundamental principles of chemistry and chemical engineering in selection, design and preparation of adsorbents and membranes.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Identify and quantify the water pollutants of the conventional wastewaters such as municipal wastewater, industrial wastewater, clinical wastewater, etc.
• 2.
  Use the fundamental knowledge to design practical wastewater treatment processes for specific wastewater sources.
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  Quantify and evaluate the wastewater treatment processes' efficiencies via specific characterization techniques like Fourier Transform Infra-Red Spectroscopy for organic group detection, Inductively Coupled Plasma for metal ion quantification, UV-vis Spectroscopy for organic compounds analysis.
• 4.
  Conduct and design a quantitative and qualitative methodology for analyzing the water quality via a project-based case study.
• 5.
  Strengthen communication skills via written reports and oral presentations.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Explain the basic concepts of polymer physics.
• 2.
  Identify DNA self assembly and DNA nanotechnology.
• 3.
  Describe DNA origami design.
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  Identify polymer membrane applications in separation technology.
• 5.
  Recognize polymer as advanced materials.
• 6.
  Describe smart surfaces.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Describe the features of diverse microorganisms
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  Explain how microorganisms, enzymes and biochemical processes can be applied for various products
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  Select, compare or design a reactor, fermentation processes or bioseparations used for various products, based on cost, safety, operability, etc.
• 4.
  Communicate biochemical engineering concepts through the use of engineering media, verbally and in writing

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Effectively describe the process safety management and risk assessment processes.
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  Categorize the key elements constituting to the building blocks of Process Safety Management framework.
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  Write up brief functional description, operation procedure and/or start-up/shut down procedures.
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  Identify and evaluate the risk and hazard by applying the quantitative tools learnt.
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  Critique on the adoption, implementation, integration and improvement of the Process Safety Management framework.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Identify and quantify the waste gas pollutants of the conventional industrial processes from different sources such as flue gas effluent, vehicular exhausts, power plant exhausts, etc.
• 2.
  Recognize the fundamental knowledge on the practical waste gas treatment process designs with specific pollutant sources.
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  Design and evaluate the conventional physio-chemical treatment processes, specifically targeting the pollutants such as volatile organic compounds, NOx, SOx, and particulates (PM2.5 and PM10).
• 4.
  Conduct and design a quantitative and qualitative methodology for solving practical problems in the waste gas treatment processes.
• 5.
  Develop communication skills, critical and logical thinking via a research project.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Model and optimize individual energy equipment such as heat exchanger, boiler, turbine, etc. that are commonly available in chemical plants.
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  Integrate and optimize energy system such as steam boiler plant, combined cycle, refrigeration system, etc., by combining the indiviual energy equipment studied.
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  Target, design and optimize heat exchanger network.
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  Design and integrate energy system with production process.
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  Create and conduct design or research projects with integration and optimization elements.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Identify the relationship between energy, environment and sustainable development.
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  Conduct energy analysis on energy systems.
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  Relate the global demand for energy with the impact on the environment.
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  Relate global warming with greenhouse gases emission.
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  Explain how various forms of non-renewable and renewable energies are produced and evaluate their impacts on the environment and sustainable development.
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  Propose possible practices and enhancement of energy efficiency in industry and commerce, which can contribute to sustainable development.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Describe fundamentals of electrochemical energy technologies and use electrochemistry to explain reaction mechanism.       
• 2.
  Explain the design principles of fuel cells, batteries, supercapacitors, etc. 
• 3.
  Study in depth a particular energy topic and write a review/give a presentation.
• 4.
  Select active materials and test them for various electrochemical energy devices.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Identify and predict properties of nanomaterials in relation to the bulk material.
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  Design nanomaterial-enhanced or nanomaterial-enabled applications.
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  Apply fundamental principles of chemistry and chemical engineering in the synthesis and manufacture of nanomaterials.
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  Create expert knowledge in methodologies and instrumentations for characterizing nanomaterials.
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  Design process for preparation, assembly and fabrication of nanomaterial-enabled or nanomaterial-enhanced systems.
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  Integrate health and environmental safety in the design, manufacturing and use of nanomaterials.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Conduct the process of identifying customers' needs and developing ideas that may satisfy these needs.
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  Identify product needs and fundamental design features for products in the energy sector.
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  Identify the critical importance of product purity in the fabrication of microelectronics products and develop process operations that could satisfy these needs.
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  Identify the opportunities for the development of food and personal care products.
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  Demonstrate the design of products and processes for the benefit of the environment.
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  Conduct "process synthesis" for the manufacture of chemical products.
• 7.
  Discover the basis of using nanotechnology for the manufacture of new products.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Explain key mechanisms for drug action, measurement, and administration routes.
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  Explain the SELECT criteria for commercial API synthesis and workup.
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  Classify and identify different solid forms of APIs and explain their importance for the manufacture and product quality of drugs.
• 4.
  Design and analyze pharmaceutical crystallization processes and workup steps.
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  Describe several key trends of innovation in the pharmaceutical industry.
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  Synthesize and explain the formulation of various liquid-dosage forms.
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  Synthesize and explain formulations of oral solid-dosage forms and design a process sequence for tablet manufacturing.
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  Synthesize and explain the main formulation strategies and the manufacture of controlled-release formulations.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Describe and compare reactor types.
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  Effectively describe the mechanisms involved within the reactor for any particular processes and hence the relevant parameters required to quantity the situation for selection and design.
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  Be familiar with the essential chemical and physical models critical to reactor design.
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  Identify the rate limited steps and leverage this to simplify the design.
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  Appreciate the impact of other key industrial parameters on reactor design.
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  Design a relatively safer reactor by adopting an inherently safer design and multiple layers protection strategies.
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  Adopt techniques for reactor integration, scale-up and optimization.
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  Gain insight on the future development of reactor design.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Identify the most recent progress in chemical and biomolecular engineering.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Develop the skills of modern analytical, experimental and computational techniques in chemical and biomolecular engineering.