The objectives of this programme are to: provide students with advanced technical skills in chemical engineering; enable students to solve problems within a technical consulting environment; provide students with business skills and knowledge of entrepreneurship; and provide training in research. Successful students should gain: an advanced knowledge of fundamental areas of chemical engineering; an understanding of how discoveries and other ideas can be exploited effectively, including new company spin-outs, reorganisation of existing company structures, technology licensing, etc., by undertaking a series of business-based modules to include topics such as financing, marketing and sustainability; the capacity to work individually and/or in a team, under time constraints, to produce workable solutions to engineering problems. Key skills learned will be time management, interaction with other workers, obtaining technical and financial information, defining optimal outcomes, and presentation and communication of results; and the ability to define, organise and undertake a research project within a specified period of time and to report it in writing and by seminar in an acceptable manner. The project might involve business-related as well as chemical engineering research, and may involve industrial collaboration. This will introduce the student to the practical problems of undertaking research. Modules are taught by a combination of formal lectures, demonstrations, discussion classes and example problems. The taught material enhances basic knowledge on chemical engineering fundamentals, as well as offering experience of other science and business based disciplines. The courses are assessed by both unseen examination and written coursework. This course cannot be counted as one year of a PhD research degree, although continuing students wishing to apply for a PhD are normally expected to obtain at least 70% overall for the MPhil ACE course.