Exchange Program Imperial College- CMU

Carnegie Mellon started an exchange program with Imperial College in London, UK, in September 1997. This program is for Chemical Engineering students and involves an exchange with the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College. Every year about three students can participate in this program.

The Imperial College exchange program offers very exciting opportunities to those students who are interested in spending their junior year abroad. Imperial College is one of the leading schools in Europe in engineering and manufacturing. Air Products & Chemicals and Procter & Gamble will consider interviewing students for a summer internship before or after going to London as it is interested in students that get training in the US and in the UK. The possible internship with Procter & Gamble is in two parts. The first part is in the summer prior to the year in London and takes place in Cincinnati. The second part is in the London research facilities at Procter and Gamble at the end of the one-year stay in London. The application is available at http://www.pg.com. Go to Jobs>>Apply Now>>Begin an Application. From the Area of Interest pull-down menu choose Research & Development. The application for the Air Products & Chemicals internship is included with the Exchange Program application packet.

The Imperial College exchange program has similar arrangements as the one with RWTH Aachen. Students pay regular fees to Carnegie Mellon. Housing costs are of the order of £300 per month and food about £200 per month. The classes start early in October. Imperial College is located in a prime location in central London, South Kensington, next to Hyde Park.

The courses that Chemical Engineering students will take at Imperial College and that are nearly equivalent to the ones in your junior year here at Carnegie Mellon are the following:

06-323 Heat and Mass Transfer
ChE 105 Heat and Mass Transfer ChE 202 Heat Transfer

06-361 Unit Operations
ChE 203 Separations I

06-321 Chem. Eng. Thermodynamics
ChE 206 Thermodynamics II

06-362 Chemical EngProcess Control
ChE 207 Process Dynamics and Control

06-363 Transport Lab
ChE 211 Laboratory Theme

06-300 Undergraduate Research
To be arranged with ICSTM faculty

09-347 Advanced Physical Chemistry
ChE 107 Properties of Matter

09-217/09-218 Organic Chemistry I,II
Chem Organic Chemistry

03-232 Biochemistry I
Biochemistry

In addition, students would take one elective, and 2 humanities courses.

If you are interested in this exchange program, please contact Cindy Vicker. Deadline for the application is January 14 of the spring before you plan to attend.