Student experience

Our CDT is student-focused in order to develop future leaders in academia and industry.

Our graduate employability is 100%, with 70% of our students being employed specifically in the field of Formulation Engineering.  Around a third of our students are retained by the sponsoring companies upon completion of the programme.  Discover the career paths of our recent graduates.

Below are the four main thematic areas within the CDT Programme, along with the research engineers and projects involved:

  • Resource efficiency and the environment;
  • Soft materials, interfaces and complex fluids;
  • Biomaterials and nanotechnology;
  • Manufacturing and Industry 4.0.

Student case studies

Read our student case studies across all four years of our programmes:

  • First year: Ting Zhang, P&G, Additive Molecule Migration through Different Media
  • Second year: Mark Al Shemmeri, JDE, Understanding the Roasting Process
  • Third year: Emma Jones, Rolls Royce, Raw material variation
  • Fourth year: Rachael Shinebaum, Astra Zeneca, Continuous granulation