We are announcing the 2025 Call for Projects for UoT’s Chemical Engineering Capstone. The course code is CHE430, and it runs in the fall term only. It is a senior (4th year) design project.
In CHE430, students collaborate in teams to design plants for the chemical process industries and evaluate their economic feasibility. Each team dedicates over 1000 hours to the project across 13 weeks, working in groups of 5 members.
Our course web site includes a collection of over 100 projects executed since 2019. Each project involves an industrial client. Over the past five years, we have collaborated with major engineering firms from the GTA, such as HATCH, AtkinsRéalis, and Worley, as well as with some amazing small and medium-sized clients.
If you have a project idea, please contact me at marko.saban@utoronto.ca by June 15, 2025. Project write-up template and examples of past project are available for review.
Thank you for considering this opportunity to engage with academia from industry.
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