Master's degree in Chemical Engineering

Basic Information

What knowledge will I acquire with this Master?

The Master's Degree in Chemical Engineering from the Rey Juan Carlos University and the Autonomous University of Madrid represents the second phase of adaptation of the Chemical Engineering degree, currently existing at the Rey Juan Carlos University, and the Industrial Technical Engineer degree (specialty Industrial Chemistry), existing both at the Rey Juan Carlos University and at the Autonomous University of Madrid, to the new structure of the official university teachings of Degree and Master.

Is this degree official according to the regulations required by the European Higher Education Area?

Yes, (final verification report is attached) the implementation of the degree will be done progressively, starting the first year in the academic year 2013-14.

Final verification report turned out FAVORABLE

Favorable report first modification

Favorable report second modification

Is it necessary to pass an access test?

It is not necessary.

What is the minimum number of credits for which I can enroll?

You can see it in the rules of permanence in this link

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Students who have possession of an official Spanish university degree or another issued by a higher education institution of the European Higher Education Area that authorizes access to Master's degrees in the country that issued the degree.

Requirements:

The specific qualifications that will facilitate access to the Master are the following:

- Degree in Chemical Engineering

- Industrial Technical Engineers, specializing in Industrial Chemistry.

- Chemical engineers.

- Other graduates such as Higher Engineers, Technical Engineers and Engineering Graduates with other specialties, for example, Energy Engineers, Industrial and Environmental Technologies) once they have completed the specified training complements.

Objectives

The general objective proposed in the Master's Degree in Chemical Engineering by the URJC and the UAM consists of training and specializing the student for the exercise of the profession of Chemical Engineer, collecting the skills that must be acquired and that are established in the Resolution
12977 of June 8, 2009 of the General Secretariat for Universities, published in the Official State Gazette number 187 of August 4, 2009.

Competences

General Competences of the Master:

Ability to apply the scientific method and the principles of engineering and economics, to formulate and solve complex problems in processes, equipment, facilities and services, in which matter undergoes changes in its composition, state or energy content, characteristic of the industry chemical and other related sectors, including the pharmaceutical, biotechnological, materials, energy, food or environmental sectors.
Conceive, project, calculate, and design processes, equipment, industrial facilities and services, in the field of chemical engineering and related industrial sectors, in terms of quality, safety, economy, rational and efficient use of natural resources and environmental conservation environment.
Technically and economically direct and manage projects, facilities, plants, companies and technology centers in the field of chemical engineering and related industrial sectors.
Carry out the appropriate research, undertake the design and direct the development of engineering solutions, in new or little-known environments, relating creativity, originality, innovation and technology transfer.
Knowing how to establish mathematical models and develop them through appropriate information technology, as a scientific and technological basis for the design of new products, processes, systems and services, and for the optimization of others already developed.
Have the capacity for analysis and synthesis for the continuous progress of products, processes, systems and services using criteria of safety, economic viability, quality and environmental management.
Integrate knowledge and face the complexity of making judgments and decisions, based on incomplete or limited information, including reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities of professional practice.
Lead and define multidisciplinary teams capable of solving technical changes and managerial needs in national and international contexts.
Communicate and discuss proposals and conclusions in multilingual, specialized and non-specialized forums, in a clear and unambiguous way.
Adapt to changes, being able to apply new and advanced technologies and other relevant developments, with initiative and an entrepreneurial spirit.
Possess the skills of autonomous learning to maintain and improve the skills of chemical engineering that allow the continuous development of the profession.

Transversal skills:

Acquire advanced knowledge and demonstrate, in a context of scientific and technological or highly specialized research, a detailed and well-founded understanding of the theoretical and practical aspects and of the work methodology in the field of Chemical Engineering.
Knowing how to apply and integrate knowledge, its understanding, its scientific foundation and its problem-solving abilities in new and imprecisely defined environments, including multidisciplinary contexts for both researchers and highly specialized professionals.
Know how to evaluate and select the appropriate scientific theory and the precise methodology of their fields of study to formulate judgments based on incomplete or limited information, including, when necessary and pertinent, a reflection on the social or ethical responsibility linked to the proposed solution. in each case.
Being able to predict and control the evolution of complex situations through the development of new and innovative work methodologies adapted to the specific scientific/research, technological or professional field, in general multidisciplinary, in which the activity of a graduate with the Master's degree is carried out University in Chemical Engineering.
Knowing how to transmit in a clear and unambiguous way to a specialized audience or not, results from scientific and technological research or from the field of the most advanced innovation, as well as the most relevant foundations on which they are based.
Having developed sufficient autonomy to participate in research projects and scientific or technological collaborations within their thematic field, in interdisciplinary contexts and, where appropriate, with a high component of knowledge transfer.
Being able to assume responsibility for their own professional development and their specialization in the field of Chemical Engineering.

Specific Competences:

Apply knowledge of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and other natural sciences, obtained through study, experience, and practice, with critical reasoning to establish economically viable solutions to technical problems.
Design products, processes, systems and services for the chemical industry, as well as the optimization of others already developed, taking as a technological basis the various areas of chemical engineering, including processes and transport phenomena, separation operations and reaction engineering chemical, nuclear, electrochemical and biochemical.
Conceptualize engineering models, apply innovative methods in problem solving and appropriate computer applications for the design, simulation, optimization and control of processes and systems.
Have the ability to solve problems that are unfamiliar, incompletely defined, and have competing specifications, considering possible solution methods, including the most innovative ones, selecting the most appropriate, and being able to correct implementation, evaluating different design solutions .
Direct and supervise all types of facilities, processes, systems and services of the different industrial areas related to chemical engineering.
Design, build and implement methods, processes and facilities for the comprehensive management of solid, liquid and gaseous supplies and waste in industries, with the capacity to assess their impacts and risks.
Direct and organize companies, as well as production and service systems, applying knowledge and skills in industrial organization, business strategy, planning and logistics, commercial and labor law, financial and cost accounting.
Direct and manage the organization of work and human resources applying criteria of industrial safety, quality management, occupational risk prevention, sustainability, and environmental management.
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Adapt to structural changes in society motivated by factors or phenomena of an economic, energy or natural nature, in order to solve the resulting problems and provide technological solutions with a high commitment to sustainability.
Direct and carry out verification, control of facilities, processes and products, as well as certifications, audits, verifications, tests and reports.
Realization, presentation and defense, once all the credits of the study plan have been obtained, of an original exercise carried out individually before a university tribunal, consisting of a comprehensive Chemical Engineering project of a professional nature in which the skills acquired in the teachings are synthesized .

Admission and enrollment

Admission:

The requirements for access to the proposed title are according to article 18, of Royal Decree 822/2021, of September 28:

Possession of an official Spanish Graduate or Graduate university degree or equivalent is a condition for accessing a Master's Degree, or, where appropriate, having another University Master's degree, or titles of the same level as the Spanish Bachelor's or Master's degree issued by universities and higher education institutions in an EHEA country that in that country allow access to Master's degrees.
In the same way, people in possession of titles from educational systems that are not part of the EHEA, which are equivalent to a Bachelor's degree, will be able to access a Master's Degree in the Spanish university system, without the need for homologation of the title, but verification by of the university of the level of training that they imply, as long as in the country where said title was issued it allows access to university postgraduate level studies. In no case will access through this route imply the homologation of the previous degree held by the person concerned or its recognition for other purposes than that of carrying out the Master's degree.

Candidate selection:

The assessment criteria for admission to the master's degree are as follows:

Adequacy of previous studies (50%)
Normalized academic record (20%).
Curriculum vitae, highlighting professional experience, scholarships and aid related to the Master's Degree (30%).

In case of doubts, candidates will be contacted directly, resorting to personal interviews if necessary.

The university body in charge of assessing and evaluating the admission tests according to the indicated criteria will be the Director/Coordinator/Head of the Master's Degree. Once all the applications received have been evaluated by the Master's Director and taking into account the final assessment of the merits, the date of submission of the application and documentation through Registry by the student and the availability of places offered, the Director /Coordinator/Head of the Master will proceed to publish the list of those admitted, their acceptance or denial. From this moment on, the selected student must proceed to formalize registration (self-registration) within the established deadlines.

Offer of places: 25 seats. If the minimum number of students envisaged is not reached in a course, the University may choose not to open the teaching group.

Admission to the Master's Degree in Chemical Engineering will take place during the 2024-25 academic year through the Autonomous University of Madrid.

See admission and enrollment

Training itinerary

Master's Teaching Guides

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Training Itinerary

Custom code	Subject	Semester	Type	No. of ECTS
637901	Advanced Separation Processes	1 º	Mandatory	6
637902	Advanced Reactors	1 º	Mandatory	6
637903	Chemical Engineering	2 º	Mandatory	3
637904	Business Management and Organization	2 º	Mandatory	3
637905	Comprehensive Management of Chemical Processes	2 º	Mandatory	6
637906	Process Engineering Strategy	1st and 2nd (Annual)	Mandatory	6
637907	Process Simulation and Optimization	1st and 2nd (Annual)	Mandatory	6
637908	R+D+i in Chemical Engineering	1st and 2nd (Annual)	Mandatory	6
637909	sustainable water management	1 º	Optional	3
637910	Sustainable Industrial Chemistry	1 º	Optional	3
637911	Treatment of gaseous effluents	1 º	Optional	3
637912	Waste minimization and recovery	1 º	Optional	3
637913	Energy Technologies for Sustainable Development	2 º	Optional	3
637914	Design of Heterogeneous Catalysts	2 º	Optional	3
637915	polymer engineering	2 º	Optional	3
637916	Industrial and environmental biotechnology	2 º	Optional	3
637917	External Academic Internships	3 º	Indefinite	12
637918	Master's thesis	3 º	Indefinite	18

Training complements for Master

Chemical Engineers, Graduates in Chemical Engineering and Industrial Technical Engineers, specializing in Industrial Chemistry, will make up the bulk of the students enrolled as the requested Master's is the natural continuation of their previous training. These graduates can access the Master's Degree in Chemical Engineering from the URJC and the UAM without the need for additional training, since in their respective previous degrees they have acquired all the general and specific skills required by the corresponding legislation.

Graduates such as Higher Engineers, Technical Engineers and Graduates in Engineering (other specialties; for example, Energy Engineers, Industrial and Environmental Technologies) have acquired the general skills of Industrial Technical Engineer, but must acquire the specific skills of Industrial Chemistry by which access implies taking certain subjects of the Degree in Chemical Engineering as Training Complements. In this case, these are compulsory and core subjects of the Degree in Chemical Engineering, with which the skills corresponding to the specialty of Industrial Chemistry are acquired.

The Training Complements will not be offered by the requesting Universities within the proposed Master's Study Plan. Applicants may request admission to the Master's degree once they have acquired the skills of a Graduate in Chemical Engineering by taking the necessary subjects of a Degree in Chemical Engineering, either from the URJC or UAM or from any other university that offers it. Once the applicants have acquired the skills required through the corresponding subjects of any Degree in Chemical Engineering, they will be considered, exclusively for the purposes of Admission to the Master, in a situation equivalent to Graduates in Chemical Engineering, so that the criterion “Adequacy of previous studies” will not be discriminatory and they will be able to opt under equal conditions for the places offered based on the other admission criteria indicated.

Below are the subjects that constitute the training complements based on the study plans of the Degrees in Chemical Engineering of the UAM and the URJC. It is foreseeable that they will be the most frequent cases in this situation. The circumstance arises that depending on the different study plans that each university offers for the same Degree in Chemical Engineering, the number of credits in subjects that are necessary to take as Training Complements may be different to acquire the same Competencies. In fact, as indicated below, if a student takes the Training Complements at the UAM she must take 18 ECTS credits, but if she takes them at the URJC she will take 15 ECTS credits. This is because the credits corresponding to the Degree subjects assigned as Training Complements in both Universities are different.

Subjects of the Degree in Chemical Engineering at the UAM, to be taken as Training Complements:

- Homogeneous Reaction Engineering: 6 ECTS.

- Heterogeneous Reaction Engineering: 6 ECTS.

- Separation Operations: 6 ECTS.

Subjects of the Degree in Chemical Engineering at the URJC, to be taken as Training Complements:

- Chemical Reaction Engineering: 7,5 ECTS.

- Separation Operations: 7,5 ECTS.

External Internships

The External Practices subject is a curricular subject whose main objective is to promote a comprehensive training of the student through the practical application of the knowledge acquired during the master's degree, which facilitates direct contact with the professional activity and the opportunity to join the professional world with a minimum of experience. All practices are designed so that the students who participate in them acquire professional experience in real situations and conditions, applying the knowledge, skills and attitudes that are acquired in the training processes throughout the degree. The internships represent a decisive opportunity for the personal development and professional future of the students.

Internships are activities carried out by the student in companies, institutions and organizations; that is, in centers outside the university premises, which aim to enrich and complement your university education, while providing you with a deeper knowledge about the skills you will need once you have graduated.

The External Practices subject will consist of two phases:

Completion of the internship period that offers professional experience related to any of the graduate profiles that are expressed in the Verification Report of the degree.
Elaboration of the memory

Documentation:

Degree Training Project

For more information: External Internship Unit

Social Security contributions for interns starting January 1, 2024

Mobility programs

University Master's Degrees, due to their duration and characteristics, generally do not specifically contemplate the mobility of their students. However, the Rey Juan Carlos University has different mobility programs for both students and University workers (PDI and PTGAS) and has procedures for the collection and analysis of information on said mobility programs.

URJC Mobility

Regulation

STUDENTS

TEACHING COORDINATION

Charge regulations

COEXISTENCE REGIME

Coexistence Regulations of the Rey Juan Carlos University for the Development of Law 3/2022, of February 24, on University Coexistence, approved by Agreement of March 30, 2023, of the Governing Council of the University

SCHOOL INSURANCE

School Insurance

ASSOCIATIONS

Regulation student associations

EVALUATION

Regulation on the Assessment of Learning Outcomes (in force from 1 September 2024)

Quality guarantee

RUCT link

BOCM Link

Internal quality assurance system

Manual of the Internal Quality Assurance System

Composition of the commission

Results report

Once the monitoring of the Master's Degree has been carried out, the most relevant quantitative information on the results obtained in the monitoring of said Degree is displayed, differentiated by academic year.

General information collection plan

Within the quality assurance system of the Rey Juan Carlos University, the following surveys are planned:

- Student profile

- Teacher evaluation

- Degree of satisfaction:

Of the students
of the graduates
From the Faculty
Administration and Services Staff

- Labor insertion

- External internships:

Satisfaction of interns
External tutor satisfaction
Employer satisfaction

Survey results:

Improvement actions

The Quality Assurance System of the Rey Juan Carlos University establishes that the degree's Quality Assurance Commission will annually analyze the information derived from the degree's indicators and prepare a report that will include improvement plans if the results so indicate.

Renewal of accreditation

The renewal of the accreditation represents the culmination of the implementation process of the official Bachelor's and Master's degrees registered in the Register of Universities, Centers and Degrees (RUCT). The renewal of the accreditation of official bachelor's and master's degrees is organized in three phases: self-assessment report, external visit and final assessment.

In the first phase, the university describes and assesses the status of the degree with respect to the established criteria and guidelines. The result is the Self-Assessment Report (IA) that is presented. The second and third phases are carried out by a group of evaluators external to the evaluated title.”