Chemical Engineering Degree (2nd Ed.)

• Admission profile

  For admission to the Degree in Chemical Engineering, it is especially recommended that the training of students be of a scientific-technological profile. Within this profile, in addition to chemistry, physics and mathematics, it is advisable to have training in technical drawing.
  Furthermore, it would be desirable for the future student of the Degree in Chemical Engineering to have the following personal and academic characteristics:
  - Interest in solving real problems
  - Calculation skill
  - Capacity for analysis and synthesis
  - Technological curiosity
  - Consistency and responsibility at work
  - Competence in oral and written expression
  - Linguistic competence in English, as well as Spanish and Galician
  - Capacity for teamwork

• Minimum number of ECTS enrollment credits per student and school period

  For admission to the Degree in Chemical Engineering, it is especially recommended that the training of students be of a scientific-technological profile. Within this profile, in addition to chemistry, physics and mathematics, it is advisable to have training in technical drawing.
  Furthermore, it would be desirable for the future student of the Degree in Chemical Engineering to have the following personal and academic characteristics:
  - Interest in solving real problems
  - Calculation skill
  - Capacity for analysis and synthesis
  - Technological curiosity
  - Consistency and responsibility at work
  - Competence in oral and written expression
  - Linguistic competence in English, as well as Spanish and Galician
  - Capacity for teamwork

• Tutorial action and reception

  Every year, at the beginning of the course, the USC holds welcome days organized by the vice-chancellor's office with responsibility for student affairs, which take place in the first fortnight of the course in all university centres, and which aim to introduce the new students to the possibilities, resources and services offered by the University.

• Title suspension rules

  When a degree suspension occurs, the USC guarantees the adequate development of teachings that were initiated by their students until its suspension. For that, the Government Council approves the criteria related with the admission of new degree entry registration and the gradual suspension of teaching impartation, among others.
  If the suspended degree is substituted for a similar one —modifying the nature of the degree—, the new degree regulations will set the conditions to facilitate students the continuity of the new degree’s studies. These regulations will also set subject equivalences in both programs.

• Access and admission rules

  The entrance tests to the three Galician universities (Baccalaureate Evaluation for access to the University (ABAU) and for people over 25 and 45 years old) are organized by the Interuniversity Commission of Galicia (CIUG). To apply for a place, students must meet one of the following access requirements established in article 3 of RD 412/2014:
  • Have a high school diploma or equivalent and pass the university entrance test.
  • Meet the requirements for access to university in the educational systems of Member States of the European Union or other States with which Spain has signed international agreements on this matter.
  • Have passed the university entrance test for those over 25 years of age, for those over 40 years of age with work or professional experience or the test for those over 45 years of age.
  • Possess a degree in higher vocational training, teaching of plastic arts and design or higher sports technician, or equivalent qualifications.
  • Have an official university degree, master's degree or a title corresponding to the previous organization of university education (university diploma, technical architect, technical engineer, graduate, architect, engineer) or equivalent titles.
  • Have completed partial foreign or Spanish university studies, or who, upon completing foreign university studies, have not obtained their homologation in Spain and wish to continue studies at a Spanish university. In this case, it will be an essential requirement that the corresponding university recognize at least 30 ECTS credits.
  • Be able to access the university according to educational regulations prior to Organic Law 8/2013, not included in the previous sections.

  In general, there are the following access routes to the University:
  - University access test (ABAU) Once you have finished high school, in order to access a university degree, you must pass the Baccalaureate Evaluation for access to the University.
  https://ciug.gal/gal/abau
  - Access from Vocational Training If you have an official title of higher vocational training technician, higher plastic arts and design technician or higher sports technician, or titles, diplomas or studies declared equivalent or approved in the Spanish educational system, you can access to study a degree at the university. Applications will be ordered according to the average grade of the higher technical degree completed out of a maximum of 10. If you wish to improve your admission grade for degree studies, you can take the voluntary part of the ABAU test.
  https://www.usc.es/export9/sites/webinstitucional/gl/servizos/oiu/desca…
  - Access test for people over 25 years of age This test can be taken by people who are over 25 years of age in the year in which the test is held and who do not have any academic qualifications that give access to the university through another means.
  - People over 45 years of age Those over 45 years of age can study official degree qualifications after passing an adapted entrance test.
  - Access over 40 through validation of work experience.
  Access for those over 40 years of age to the Degree in Chemical Engineering through validation of the professional experience that has been designed will be carried out taking into account the suitable professional profiles and a personal interview. The level of professional qualification required of the applicant will be that corresponding to the professional qualifications of the professional families and levels of the National Catalogue of Professional Qualifications (CNCP), prepared by the National Institute of Qualifications (INCUAL).
  On the part of the University, the following list of professional families with access to the degree in Chemical Engineering has been established:
  Does not specify levels.
  • Energy and water
  •Food industries
  •Chemistry
  •Security and environment

Upon graduation, a chemical engineer must have achieved the following training objectives:
1. Have relevant knowledge of the basic sciences (mathematics, chemistry, biotechnology and physics) to help understand, describe and solve the phenomena of chemical engineering.
2. Understand the basic principles of chemical engineering:
a. Balances of matter, energy and amount of motion.
b. Balance
c. Kinetic processes (chemical reaction, matter, heat, amount of motion) and be able to use them to pose and solve (analytically, numerically or graphically) a variety of chemical engineering problems.
3. Understand the main concepts of process control.
4. Understand the basic principles of processes/products.
5. Have a relevant knowledge of the available relevant bibliography and data sources.
6. Be able to plan, carry out, explain and report basic experimental work.
7. Have a basic knowledge of the aspects of health, industrial hygiene, safety end environment.
8. Understand the concept of sustainability.
9. Understand the basic concept of product engineering.
10. Have the knowledge and carry out practical applications of product engineering.
11. Have the ability to analyse complex problems.
12. Have experience in the use of appropriate software.
13. Be able to carry out product and process design.
14. Be able to calculate the costs of processes and projects.

• Competencies

  COMP01 - Ability to write, sign and develop projects in the field of industrial engineering with the purpose of building, renovation, conservation, demolition, manufacturing, installation, assembly or exploitation of structures, mechanical equipment, energy installations, electric and electronic installations, industrial facilities and plants, and automation and manufacturing processes.
  COMP02 - Ability for the direction of the activities part of the engineering projects.
  COMP03 - Ability to solve mathematical problems that can emerge in engineering. Ability to apply knowledge on linear algebra; geometry; differential geometry; differential and integral calculus; differential and partial differential equations; numerical methods; numerical algorithmics; statistics and optimization.
  COMP04 – Ability to understand and apply the basic knowledge of general chemistry, organic and inorganic chemistry and its applications to engineering.
  COMP05 - Ability to analyse and design processes and products or simulation and optimization of processes and products.
  COMP06 - Ability for the design and management of applied experimental procedures, especially for: the determining of thermodynamic and transport properties, and phenomena and systems modelling in the field of chemical engineering or flow fluid systems, heat transference or matter or kinetic transference of chemical reactions or reactors.
  COMP07 - Ability to design, manage and operate procedures of: simulation of chemical processes or control and instrumentation of chemical processes.
  COMP08 - Ability to solve problems with initiative, decision making, creativity, critical reasoning and communicate and transmit knowledge, abilities and skills in the field of industrial engineering.
  COMP09 - Ability to manage mandatory specifications, regulations and standards.
  COMP10 - Ability to analyse and assess the social and environmental impact of technical solutions.
  COMP11 - Ability to apply the quality principles and methods.
  COMP12 - Organisation and planning ability in the field of business and other institutions and organisations.
  COMP13 - Ability to work in a multilingual and multidisciplinary environment.
  COMP14 - Knowledge, understanding and ability to apply the necessary legislation to the exercise of the profession of industrial technical engineer.
  COMP15 - Integration of the basic, common and specific skills of the industrial branch through the final dissertation.
  COMP16 - Ability to carry out an original exercise to be carried out individually and presented and defended before a university tribunal, consisting of a project in the field of specific technologies of Industrial Engineering of a professional nature in which the acquired skills are synthesized and integrated in the teachings.

• Abilities and skills

  A/S01 - Teamwork.
  A/S02 - Oral and written communication in the native language and foreign languages.
  A/S03 - Ability for the management of information.
  A/S04 - Critical reasoning and ethical commitment.
  A/S05 - Ability to apply knowledge in a practical manner.
  A/S06 – Leadership.
  A/S07 - Autonomous learning.
  A/S08 - Initiative and entrepreneurial spirit.
  A/S09 - Computer skills.

• Knowledge

  K01 - Understanding and control of basic concepts of general mechanics, thermodynamics, fields and waves and electromagnetics laws and their application to problem solving in engineering.
  K02 - Basic knowledge on the use and programming of computers, operative systems, data bases and computer programmes with applications in engineering
  K03 - Appropriate knowledge of business, institutional and legal frame of a business. Organisation and management of companies.
  K04 - Skill of spatial vision and knowledge of the techniques of graphic representation, both through traditional metrical geometry and descriptive geometry methods, and the computer assisted design applications.
  K05 - Knowledge and basic principles of applied thermodynamics or heat transference and their application to problem solving in engineering.
  K06 - Knowledge of the basic principles of fluid mechanics and its application to problem solving in engineering. Calculation of pipes, channels and fluid systems.
  K07 - Knowledge of the fundamentals of science, technology and chemistry of materials. Understand the relationship between microstructure, synthesis or processing and material properties.
  K08 - Knowledge and use of the principles of circuit theory and electrical machines.
  K09 -Knowledge of the fundamentals of electronics.
  K10 -Knowledge of the fundamentals of automation and control methods.
  K11 -Knowledge of the principles of theory of machines and mechanisms.
  K12 - Knowledge and use of the principles of resistance of materials.
  K13 - Basic knowledge of production and manufacturing systems.
  K14 - Basic knowledge and application of environmental technologies and sustainability.
  K15 - Applied knowledge of business organization.
  K16 - Knowledge and skills to organize and manage projects. Know the organizational structure and functions of a project office.
  K17 - Knowledge of material and energy balances or biotechnology or material transfer or separation operations or chemical reaction engineering or reac

Mobility

Student mobility is regulated through the “Regulation of inter-university exchange.” Exchange programmes are managed through the International Relations Office, such as national exchange programmes (SICUE) as well as Europeans (ERASMUS) and from outside the European Union (exchanges with Latin American countries or English-speaking countries):
https://www.usc.gal/gl/servizos/area/internacional
Student mobility is carried out from the second year of studies in the degree, in quarterly or annual periods.

Internships

The subject Internships in companies will imply that students carry out internships in one or more companies, for a maximum of 150 hours for recognition purposes, among those with which an agreement has been established from the Higher Technical School of Engineering or the USC. They are mandatory and are offered in the second semester of the fourth year.
The Higher Technical School of Engineering will assign the students a tutor from among the Teaching and Research Staff of the degree, who will monitor the work carried out by the students and ensure the quality of the stay carried out.

• Graduates profile

  Qualifies for the regulated profession of Industrial Technical Engineer.
  Mainly in the business field and to a lesser extent in other fields.

In accordance with the provisions of order CIN/351/2009, which establishes the requirements for the verification of official university degrees that qualify for the exercise of the profession of Industrial Technical Engineer, the Final Dissertation will consist of an exercise of design that will comprise a unit of an industrial facility. It will be done individually. The selection of the project theme will be proposed by the students or teachers of the degree. The project proposal document will be approved by the Final Dissertation commission. Everything related to the completion and evaluation of the TFG will be regulated by specific regulations that will be prepared for this purpose.