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A range of member-only resources plus grades and registrations that provide recognition of your professionalism.
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Be recognised as a Chartered Chemical Engineer. Gain CEng, CSci, or CEnv registration.
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Associate membership is for those with degree-level knowledge and understanding of chemical engineering.
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Engage, collaborate and network with your peers through IChemE Connect - our online members community.
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Explore thousands of items of technical content created by IChemE and its members.
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Our internationally acclaimed series of model forms of agreement are developed to reflect best practice for project delivery in the process industries.
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View all of our upcoming events - seminars and webinars, conferences, professional learning opportunities to support career development, and much more.
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Process safety, process/plant operations, contract/project management, and sustainable process engineering. Online and in-person.
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Courses include HAZOP, LOPA, hydrogen safety, human factors and the fundamentals of process safety.
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Learn online independently and at your own pace.
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Focus on major hazard management at our annual Hazards conference.
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The IChemE Awards celebrate chemical, process and biochemical engineering excellence.
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Learn how to manage human factors effectively in the chemical and process industries.
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Distillation know-how with Henry Kister
Take your distillation knowledge to the next level. Two courses available.
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Hydrogen safety training
Learn about the hazards associated with hydrogen. Introductory and advanced courses available.
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Process safety conference
Join the process safety and loss prevention community on 5–7 November in Manchester, UK.
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Sustainable process engineering courses
Use your chemical engineering skills to contribute to a sustainability-first approach at your organisation.
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Education & Career
Information for those considering a chemical engineering as a career, and across the subsequent career stages.
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Inspiring our future engineers. Find out about IChemE's new campaign to support the talent pipeline. DiscoverChemEng – engineering a sustainable world.
Degree programmes
IChemE accredited degree programmes - take the first step towards becoming a Chartered Chemical Engineer.
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Are you looking to accredit your degree programme? We work with universities worldwide to benchmark programmes against high, internationally recognised standards.
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Sustainable World
Highlighting how chemical and process engineering contributes to society, and how IChemE is contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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Not a chemical engineer? Learn about the profession and the positive impact it can have on society and the environment.
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Recognising those that help the profession and the Institution.
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As a Learned Society, IChemE shares and creates knowledge, providing evidence to inform policy.
Engineering a Sustainable World
Watch Engineering a Sustainable World, a programme produced in collaboration with ITN Business, to look at how chemical and process engineers are addressing climate change.
Priority Topics
Priority Topics focus IChemE's ambition to be a vibrant learned society that materially impacts on the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
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Engineering a Sustainable World
IChemE partnered with ITN Business to look at how chemical and process engineers are addressing climate change.
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Free sustainability training
Visit the Sustainability Hub, where IChemE members can request access to free on-demand training via our virtual learning zone.
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Priority Topics
Find out how the Priority Topics focus IChemE's ambition to be a vibrant learned society that materially impacts on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
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IChemE's strategy, leadership, governance and more.
Annual Review 2022
An overview of the Institution’s activities during the year and highlights the impact we have made.
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Meet the trustees providing IChemE's strategic direction and leadership.
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All the latest news from the IChemE press office.
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Join thousands of other professionals and support IChemE through volunteering.
Work for IChemE
Want to work with talented, inspiring and welcoming colleagues to engineer a sustainable world? Take a look at our current vacancies.
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Presidential address
Nigel Hirst delivered his Presidential Address on Wednesday 14 June 2023 to mark his inauguration as the 82nd President of IChemE.
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Annual Review 2022
The 2022 Annual Review provides an overview of our activities and highlights.
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