From the Dean
The Faculty of Chemical Engineering is the youngest faculty of the Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT) Prague. It came into being in 1960, in response to the need of the chemical industry to enhance process and economic disciplines in addition to chemical ones. The Faculty's departments provide BSc, MSc and PhD courses. The Faculty holds a specific position in the area of teaching as all its departments provide for instruction in the core subjects common to students at all ICT faculties in the 1st up to 3rd year of studies, in addition to taught courses in the respective subprogrammes.
Courses provided at the Faculty combine education in natural sciences with engineering, which corresponds to the current requirements placed on the preparation of engineers. The taught courses provide students with a broad theoretical background in chemical and engineering subjects, and their specialised studies add theoretical and practical fundamentals of the chosen field. Emphasis is put primarily on students' independent work in laboratories and in project implementation, on the development of an engineering way of thinking, and on a systematic approach to addressing specific problems. They also learn to work with computers and use common and specialised engineering software.
Studies at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering are based on a credit system which allows students, mainly those in advanced courses, to choose from a broad range of elective subjects and thus decide about their professional profile themselves. Students choose the subprogramme they wish to pursue in the 3rd year of studies. All subprogrammes taught at the Faculty are of a universal character, without any firm link to a specific field of production or technology.
Graduates from the Faculty find employment in various fields of the chemical, petrochemical and food industries, in the pharmaceutical industry and in environmental protection. They may enter a career in the area of production, business, research and designing, or they work in various managing and engineering positions, company management, applied research, development, designing, production, consulting and commercial activity. Some of them choose to teach at secondary schools and at institutions of higher education, others work in the state administration or in professions related to computer equipment.
Scientific work represents an inseparable part of the activity of all Faculty departments, and it is reflected in the themes of diploma works elaborated by students in individual subprogrammes of study. The Faculty is an important research centre pursuing a number of grant projects and research tasks with application in industrial and research practice. Many departments are equipped with unique apparatuses which serve both basic and applied research, and which students learn to use during courses in their subprogramme.
The presented brochure provides basic information about courses offered in BSc, MSc and PhD study programmes in individual subprogrammes of study, about graduates' professional career opportunities, about individual departments and their research orientation and other activities. I hope that the provided information will be useful to those who would wish to study at the Faculty as well as those who would be interested in professional collaboration.
