Sustainable Process Engineering
Shaping as sustainable future
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You want to pursue a career that promotes climate protection, environmental protection and resource conservation!
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Contents:
Sustainable process engineering deals with topics relevant to the future, e.g. hydrogen from renewable energies, green fuels, chemicals and materials, carbon capture technologies, energy efficiency and so on ...
Qualification:
Here you will become an engineer specialising in sustainable process engineering and receive the academic degree B.Sc. (Bachelor of Science).
Career fields:
Energy consultant, sustainability manager, planning engineer, test engineer, operations engineer, etc.
Potential employers:
Industry, expert organisations, engineering firms, public authorities, etc.
Reasons for choosing this degree programme
Practice-oriented training
Not just theory, but also learning in well-equipped laboratories, on site visits to relevant companies and through an integrated practical term outside the university.Diverse career opportunities
Exciting and diverse career opportunities await wherever production is efficient, resource-saving and environmentally friendly in order to supply people.Just save the world by yourself, now
Actively developing, planning, building or operating new sustainable production processes to enable the energy transition and decarbonisation of industry – for environmental and climate protection.
Your sustainable future after completing this degree programme
Career opportunities and/or further opportunities
Don't just demonstrate for a better future, actively work towards it and earn your income doing so. Highly topical tasks include the decarbonisation of industry, bio-based products and green hydrogen.
With a bachelor's degree, you can start your career as an engineer straight away. Graduates find employment in the material conversion industry (process industry), e.g. refineries, chemicals, paints, pharmaceuticals, food, paper, glass, ceramics, cement, iron, etc. Jobs are also available in the supply and disposal sector, including water, gas, district heating, recycling and urban mining. The fields of employment are diverse: industry, plant engineering, apparatus engineering, engineering offices, technical supervision and senior civil service.
In addition to management tasks in production companies and in project planning and plant maintenance, you can also work in research and development, for which a further master's degree is recommended and can ultimately even be followed by a doctorate (doctoral thesis).
At Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences, you could also complete the English-language international master's programme in Process Engineering and Energy Technology. Here, the knowledge acquired in the bachelor's programme is scientifically deepened in the fields of process and energy technology.
Facts about this study programme
Degree of Studies
Bachelor of ScienceStudy Form
Full-time studyTerm of Admission
admission-freeTerm of Admission
Winter and summer termMain Course Language
50% German and 50% EnglishStandard Period of Study
7 Semester
Unlock your potential
You will acquire a broad basic education in engineering. At the same time, you will be familiarised with sustainability issues and the fundamentals of process engineering from the very first semester. As you progress through your studies, you will be able to choose elective subjects that allow you to specialise according to your personal interests. Practical learning is a high priority and is promoted through laboratory and project work in small groups. During the practical semester and the subsequent Bachelor's thesis, e.g. in an industrial company or an engineering office, you will learn about engineering work and then put it into practice yourself. This will make your entry into professional life much easier.
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Course content
The Sustainable Process Engineering (SPE) programme provides a broad foundation for future work in engineering, particularly in the material conversion industry. In the first semesters, students acquire knowledge in the natural sciences, including physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics, as well as engineering sciences such as mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and computer science. Building on this foundation, subjects such as fluid mechanics, heat exchange, renewable energies and measurement and control technology are covered in the higher semesters. In order to acquire specialist knowledge in line with their individual interests, students can choose specialisation subjects from a catalogue that includes areas of knowledge such as thermal process engineering, mechanical process engineering, energy process engineering, environmental process engineering and water technologies.
The Sustainable Process Engineering (SPE) programme has a strong practical focus, which is made possible in particular by the well-equipped laboratories. The theoretical knowledge acquired in lectures is often consolidated in laboratory sessions in small groups using practical examples or as part of project work. Industrially relevant commercial software tools are also used in teaching to prepare students well for the digitalisation of industry
The Sustainable Process Engineering (SPE) programme involves intensive study of operational processes during the practical semester, which is completed in a company in the seventh semester and can be combined with the preparation of the bachelor's thesis.
International and intercultural experience can be gained optionally during a semester abroad. Semesters abroad are possible worldwide. There are established contacts with partner universities, e.g. in Colombia, France, England, Ireland, Finland, Poland and Spain.
In addition, the programme offers the opportunity to obtain a double degree in cooperation with a Colombian university, the Universidad EAFIT in Medellín. By successfully completing this double degree programme, students not only obtain a bachelor's degree from Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences, but also a bachelor's degree from the Colombian partner university
Admission and application
To study Sustainable Process Engineering (SPE), you need a general university entrance qualification, a general university of applieds sciences entrance qualification or an equivalent qualification according to German laws..
You need a B1 level in English and foreign applicants also need C1 level in German.
If you have any questions about admission, and in particular about the possibility of studying without a university entrance qualification, please contact the Admissions Office and the Student Advisory Service ('Immatrikulationsamt' and 'Studienberatung') .
The Sustainable Process Engineering (SPE) programme accepts students annually for the winter and summer semesters. The application deadline for German-/EU-applicats for the winter semester is 15 August and for the summer semester 15 February.
The Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences is a member of UNI-ASSIST (Application Services for International Students).
Applicants who have obtained their university entrance qualification outside the European Union (EU) have to submit their application via UNI-ASSIST. To ensure adequate processing time, the application for the winter semester should be submitted to UNI-ASSIST by 30 June. Following a successful review, the applicatoion is forwarded to the our University. UNI-ASSIST charges applicants a fee to process the application.
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Sustainable Process Engineering (SPE)