Chemical engineering is concerned with inventing, designing, and managing products and processes that transform raw materials into valuable products. This is done using the latest knowledge of biology, chemistry and physics to ensure viable commercial production whilst minimising loss of materials and energy consumption. This value-adding must be safe, economical and environmentally sound. Metallurgical engineering plays a key role in ensuring the sustainability of our modern society. Everything in our material world, even our major energy sources, is derived from minerals or recycled materials. It is the role of the metallurgical engineer to develop, design and operate processes that transform these low value raw materials into useful high value mineral and metal products. These two areas of engineering combine well because Metallurgical Eng is an extension of the fundamentals of Chemical Engineering. A specialisation in Chemical & Metallurgical Engineering gives students an advantage for employment in Australia's important resources sector whilst maintaining employment options in other industries. Metallurgical Engineering is an exciting field because the processing changes depending on the ore body and the challenges to continuously make minerals processing more sustainable.