Science & Engineering Orientation: Health
The Health orientation focuses on the application of chemical engineering principles and methods to a wide set of products and processes associated with human health. One of the most important current societal challenges is high-quality affordable healthcare.
Chemical engineering can play a key role in several of these developments. Examples of this include diagnosing heart diseases with insights gained via patient blood flow analysis; designing new production methods for new therapeutic materials to effectively treat life-threatening diseases (e.g. antibiotics or nanomedicines). Other areas are the development of devices for medical diagnostics and therapy, for instance in the form of a ‘lab-on-a-chip’ or 'organ-on-a chip'.
Within this orientation, you will receive the basic knowledge and training needed to direct the first steps of your career into the health sector, being it in any of the major industrial players such as pharmaceuticals, consumer-products, food-processing or in consulting companies, academia or challenging startups.
Students interested in this orientation for their master’s programme are suggested to select from the following electives.
| Year 1: Q2 (Advanced Chemical Engineering Courses) | Year 1: Q3 (Chemical Engineering Electives) |
|---|---|
Reactors & Kinetics (R&K) Advanced Thermodynamics (ATP) Solid State Materials (SSM) | Particle Technology for Health and Energy Molecular engineering of soft materials in health care Biological Transport Phenomena Nuclear Medicine |
Please be advised that students will not receive a separate title or addendum when finishing a science & engineering orientation. It will also not show on the degree.