News
Chemical Engineering academic and postgraduate co-author new book chapter
Thu 23 May 2013
Dr Davide Mattia and research postgraduate Hannah Leese, of the Environmental Nanotechnology Group, have co-authored a chapter to be included in a new book 'Nanoscale Liquid Interfaces' published by Pan Stanford. read more »
Professor Barry Crittenden new Heat Transfer Society president
Tue 26 Mar 2013
Professor Crittenden was inaugurated as the Society’s president at the 2013 annual dinner held at the Grand Connaught Rooms in London. read more »
Chem Eng students and staff have smashing time at Ball
Wed 20 Mar 2013
Around 150 guests enjoyed a three-course meal, ball, raffle, and prize-giving ceremony at the 2013 Chem Eng Ball. read more »
Chem Eng inspires young lives with the Prince's Trust
Tue 12 Mar 2013
Holly Hazell, a young Bath resident, participated in a work placement with the Department of Chemical Engineering as part of the Prince’s Trust Team programme. read more »
Successful webinar discusses nuclear power as a circular chem eng journey
Mon 11 Mar 2013
An IChemE Nuclear Technology Special Interest Group event. read more »
Final-year student placement makes it to the finals of UK Best Placement Student award
Wed 27 Feb 2013
Louisa Paes was nominated to the award by her line manager at L’Oreal. read more »
MEng fourth-year student is Winkworth’s 2012 industrial placement
Fri 22 Feb 2013
Tim Gore will be a key member in the factory process improvement team. read more »
Chem Eng researcher invited to first south west Crucible programme
Thu 31 Jan 2013
A NESTA initiative to support collaboration and innovative thinking. read more »
Fellowship Academy highly commended at IChemE Awards 2012
Thu 08 Nov 2012
The Faculty scheme was finalist under the ‘Education and Training’ category. read more »
Student mentoring is back again for our first-year students
Mon 05 Nov 2012
Following on last year's successful run, second-year students are volunteering to make new students feel like at home in Bath. read more »
Chemical Engineering at Bath in Times top ten
Thu 14 Jun 2012
The Department of Chemical Engineering is ranked 9th in the UK by The Times Good University Guide. read more »
Students reach Best Beer Competition finals
Mon 27 Feb 2012
Four postgraduate students in the Department of Chemical Engineering have earned a place at the UK finals of a competition organised by multi-national brewing conglomerate AB InBev. read more »
Students share placement experiences
Wed 30 Nov 2011
A poster exhibition gave returning placement students an opportunity to share their experiences with staff and students in the department. read more »
BP book prize awarded to students
Tue 15 Nov 2011
Students receive BP book prize in recognition of their first year studies with the Department. read more »
Collaborative student mentoring scheme launched
Mon 07 Nov 2011
A student mentoring scheme has been launched by CESA (Chemical Engineering Student Association) and the Department of Chemical Engineering. read more »
Funded PhD opportunity in Chemical Engineering
Mon 17 Oct 2011
An opportunity has arisen to undertake a funded research project on Tuneable Catalysed Membrane Reactors. read more »
Department impresses in 2011 student survey
Wed 17 Aug 2011
The Department for Chemical Engineering is pleased to have achieved an excellent score for student satisfaction in the 2011 National Student Survey (NSS). read more »
Double celebration for Department
Fri 01 Jul 2011
Dr Laura Torrente is awarded a Young Researcher's Prize and the department has welcomes Dr Mirella Di Lorenzo. read more »
Bath academic chairs International Hydrogen Research Showcase
Fri 15 Apr 2011
The 2011 International Hydrogen Research Showcase, which took place at the University of Birmingham in April, attracted leading university and industry researchers from the UK, US, Canada, Russia, Japan, Korea, Switzerland and France. read more »
International Hydrogen Research Showcase 2011
Fri 25 Mar 2011
The high profile three-day Showcase will take place from 13 – 15 April 2011 at the University of Birmingham. read more »
Chemical engineering graduate to be presented with Salter's Prize
Fri 10 Sep 2010
Final year student Nick Holland has been awarded a prestigious Graduate Prize by the Salters' Institute. read more »
Chemical engineer awarded big fellowship for studying small things
Thu 17 Jun 2010
Dr Davide Mattia has been awarded a prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering/EPSRC Research Fellowship to work on a project entitled: Nanoparticle Factory-on-a-Chip. read more »
Chemical Engineering student commended for her contribution
Thu 29 Apr 2010
Muna Mazlan has received a ‘Highly Commended’ citation by Bath’s Students' Union at its Student Employee of the Year Awards for 2010. read more »
Capturing Carbon Dioxide in Submersible Human Habitats
Sat 24 Apr 2010
Chemical Engineers at the University of Bath have been awarded US$ 554,858 over 3 years to collaborate with Mechanical Engineers at Duke University in the US to tackle the removal of carbon dioxide from gaseous streams. read more »
Chemical Engineers awarded IChemE Fellowships
Tue 30 Mar 2010
Dr Mike Bird and Dr Semali Perera, both Senior Lecturers in the Department, have been elected to Fellowship of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE). read more »
£1.4 million for carbon capture and fuel production
Wed 24 Mar 2010
Drs Pawel Plucinski and Davide Mattia in the Department of Chemical Engineering, are co-investigators in a recently announced £1.4 million research project to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and convert it into useful chemicals and fuels. read more »
Marvellous metal-organics
Mon 18 Jan 2010
A paper co-authored by Dr Tim Mays in the Department of Chemical Engineering (J Am Chem Soc 2009, 131, 2159-2171) has been selected as one of 2009’s Nature Research Highlights (Nature 2009, 462, 961). read more »
SUPERGEN Theme Day for UK-SHEC
Fri 27 Nov 2009
UK-SHEC was represented by Dr Tim Mays (Operations Director, University of Bath), Prof Rex Harris (University of Birmingham) and Prof Paul Ekins (UCL). read more »
Chemical Engineering Graduate presented with Salter's Prize
Thu 19 Nov 2009
Ollie Wood is one of only six Chemical Engineering graduates in the UK to be awarded a prestigious Graduate Prize by the Salter’s Institute. read more »
Chemical Engineering students win ExxonMobil Engineering Challenge 2009
Tue 29 Sep 2009
A team of Bath Chemical Engineering students beat participants from Exeter, Cambridge, Imperial, Nottingham, Surrey, Loughborough and Birmingham to win first place in the ExxonMobil Engineering Challenge (south). read more »
Chemical Engineering Graduate "Best in the UK"
Fri 25 Sep 2009
Rhys Williams has won the award for the Best Chemical Engineering Student at the Science Engineering and Technology Awards. read more »
University to partner with NUS
The University has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the National University of Singapore (NUS) initially to work together in the area of Engineering design education and research.
Bath researchers take gold and silver at Houses of Parliament
Two of our researchers have won prizes in the prestigious SET for Britain poster competition this week.
Bath research showcased in Parliament
Researchers from the University are presenting their research at the Houses of Parliament as part of SET for Britain on Monday 18 March.
Seeing the positive side of Carbon Dioxide
New research from Bath has explored the idea of treating carbon dioxide as a useful product rather than waste, by capturing it and converting it into useful chemicals and reducing the quantity of this greenhouse gas in our atmosphere.
Global firm supports new management prize fellow
Grant Thornton is strengthening its relationship with the University by supporting a new prize fellowship in the School of Management’s Centre in Strategic Risk, creating the first corporate named academic position in the School.
Awards presented to promote collaborative research in directed assembly
The Bath-based management team of the EPSRC Directed Assembly Grand Challenge Network are spreading a little pre-Christmas joy amongst UK researchers in Materials Chemistry this month. Network Principle Investigator, Professor Paul Raithby, and Network Coordinator, Dr Jenny Woods, both from our Department of Chemistry, have just handed out 11 awards to promote collaborative research towards producing materials with particular properties and function.
Ten Ford scholarships announced for Bath students
Ten academically gifted undergraduate students from the University’s Faculty of Engineering & Design have found out that they are to receive substantial scholarships from Ford to support them in their studies.
BP establishes initial four year £4.5million UK undergraduate scholarship fund
Bath is one of only nine UK universities to have been selected to take part in BP’s new scholarship programme for talented science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) undergraduates. In its first year, the programme will provide ten scholarships for Bath students, each worth £5,000.
