UWA Handbook 2025

Unit Overview

Description

CHPR5550 is a capstone experience in the Chemical Engineering major in the BE(Hons) and should be taken in your last year of study. Working in a team, typically with four to six members, you will be required to integrate and apply knowledge and skills acquired in earlier units to a substantial real-world design challenge in chemical engineering. Teams are supervised by an academic and/or industry mentor. Teams are responsible for managing their project as well as reporting against milestones and preparing the necessary design documentation. The academic objectives of the project are to lead students through a systematic engineering design and synthesis process and to better prepare them for professional practice as engineers. The focus of the unit is on teamwork skills and the design process.

Credit

12 points

Offering
(see Timetable)

Availability	Location	Mode
Semester 1	UWA (Perth)	Face to face

Outcomes

Students are able to (1) apply a comprehensive understanding of design processes and methodologies to a complex, real world chemical engineering design project; (2) work with information that may be incomplete or uncertain, including quantifying the effect of this on the design and, where appropriate, presenting strategies to mitigate deficiencies; (3) generate an innovative design for processes, systems and products to fulfil new needs; (4) evaluate the proposed chemical process for environmental impact, safety, and life cycle analysis; (5) evaluate the process economics, and financial and other risks associated with the project; and (6) work effectively as individuals and in diverse groups to produce effective key process design documentation and activities.

Assessment

Indicative assessments in this unit are as follows: (1) group reports (including peer assessment); (2) individual reports; and (3) group presentation. Further information is available in the unit outline.

To pass this unit, a student must: (a) achieve an overall mark of 50 per cent or higher for the unit; and (b) achieve the requisite requirements(s) or a mark of 50 per cent or greater, whichever is higher and specified in the unit outline, for the individual reports component.

Student may be offered supplementary assessment in this unit if they meet the eligibility criteria.

Unit Coordinator(s)

Dr Brendan Graham and Dr Einar Fridjonsson

Unit rules

Prerequisites

Enrolment in

62550 Master of Professional Engineering (Chemical Engineering specialisation)

and Successful completion of

CHPR4406 Reaction Engineering

or
Enrolment in

Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) or an associated Combined Degree and a WAM of at least 50

and Successful completion of

( CHPR3018 Process Synthesis and Design 2
and CHPR3019 Unit Operations
and CHPR3406 Reaction Engineering
and GENG3000 Engineering Practice 3

)

Incompatibility

CHPR5551 Chemical Engineering Design Project 1
and CHPR5552 Chemical Engineering Design Project 2

Advisable prior study

(ENSC3019 Unit Operations
and Unit Processes
or CHPR3019 Unit Operations) and (ENSC3018 Process Synthesis and Design
or CHPR3018 Process Synthesis and Design 2)

Contact hours

Workshops: 3 hours per week
Laboratories: 6 hours per semester