UNIMELB_BURY-Naomi_VYT-LOCAL-2025

This video is my entry for the 2025 Visualise Your Thesis competition. Chemical engineering is critical to the functioning of society, but we don't have enough skilled chemical engineers to support this. My research aims to identify the technical skills that chemical engineers need to support a sustainable society. By identifying these skills, they can be embedded into chemical engineering education, helping future chemical engineers to develop these critical skills and support a thriving society.

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Did you know that chemical engineers are crucial to a sustainable society?

We apply chemical and biochemical technology to solve sustainability challenges like delivering clean energy, life-savings medicines, and clean drinking water.

But at the moment, chemical engineers don't have all of the necessary skills to solve these challenges.

That's why I'm researching the technical skills that chemical engineers need for solving sustainability challenges.

I'm developing a framework for these skills, centred around chemical engineering science, design, and ways of thinking, based on literature and surveys.

Educators can use this framework to embed sustainability technical skills into their teaching.

By learning these critical skills, future chemical engineers are empowered to solve current sustainability challenges and the challenges that lie ahead.

Chemical engineers with the right skills means a more sustainable society, which is better for us all.