What would you consider to be the most important innovations in the chemical engineering field to date? Any of these that you would consider to be disruptive innovations to chemical engineering?
I was thinking about the advent of the Haber-Bosch process as one of the biggest as that largely launched ChemE as a profession, but I know there have to be some more out there!
Hi everyone, I recently came across this article and thought it was a pretty good read. Does anyone know of any similar articles/books?
Thanks in advance.
Edit: thanks for the responses everyone. Will get to checking them out :)
Currently, I am a petroleum engineering student in my first year and have attended several meetings in which seniors and alumni talk about their experiences and stuff. One thing I have noticed is that the job market is constantly fluctuating and there is no job security.
Due to personal reasons, I want to join the oil and gas sector. I figured that I could switch to Chem eng and then join the sector after a specialized masters but that seems like a bad idea. I want to make an informed choice, which I why I turn to you, Netizens
how do i integrate these contrasting fields? I am in a deep rut and not knowing where to go. My plan is to work for a few years as a contract engineer of some sort and save enough money to go back to school and earn a degree (Masters or PhD) in history or philosophy, but this would mean that i have to spend the next 5 years or so doing nothing too productive. I'm in this situation is because my family discouraged me to study anything other than STEM and almost 10 years later I still have no job!!1
Tl;dr: Physics 1 was not my favorite course. It might've just been a bad prof. Is this a sign I shouldn't do ChemE and I should to Chem instead?
So I'm between choosing a ChemE degree and a Chemistry degree. I was a math major for a while, but when I started my advanced courses, it was almost all really boring proof writing and not any of the applied problem solving that I loved. I really like Chemistry, Applied math, and CS, so I thought ChemE would be a good choice. I decided to apply to transfer to an engineering school and this semester I took some pre-reqs and other classes that would transfer.
One of the courses I took was physics 1. I thought I'd really like it because I like math and problem solving and the physics parts of calculus. However, I hated it. I'm not sure I hated it because I disliked the course material itself. There were some things I thought were interesting. I once took a physics of music class as an elective, and i thought it was the coolest thing ever. I just had an awful prof and it soured physics for me.
I was reading online that ChemE is a lot more physics than chemistry and this worried me. I will be taking physics 2 over the summer and I don't need to decide on my transfer until July. Should I just rule out ChemE now and do Chem instead, should I wait and see how physics 2 goes, or does it not really matter that this one class sucked??
I just wanted to know if ChemE had any of the Electrical engineering. And if it does, would it enough for jobs that require Electrical engineers?
Since university, I've been working for a large Engineering firm in the oil and gas industry for over 7 years. I've primarily worked as a Process Engineer on various different projects and on different technologies including Refining (hydrotreaters/Crude/Vacuum units, cokers), LNG, Gasification, etc... I've also taken on rotational assignments in construction field engineering and project management. I'm having trouble deciding on the best way structure my resume's "Work Experience Section" to convey. Should I list each project chronologically, and describe my roles/responsibilities on each? Or should I list each the positions/roles I've held (Process Engineer, Field Engineer, Project Engineering/Management, etc..) and describe the responsibilities/skills associated for each role.
With a large number of graduating chemical engineers leaving the industry to explore other areas of the workforce, I thought I’d create a survey to understand the spread of job satisfaction.
This poll is for those currently working within chemical engineering related fields and also those who have decided to turn their back on this field post graduation.
Please feel free to comment explaining where you currently work (or worked within the industry) and the reasoning behind your answer.
Our industry has generally been found to have a larger than average level of dissatisfaction with work. Whether that’s due to the work generally not being as interesting as other fields or the application being less fulfilling then they’d like.
The aim of this post is to spark an open discussion on post graduation work life satisfaction and provide an insight to current Chemical Engineering students thinking of joining the industry.
I've been practicing for the CCP and anticipate to get it next week. My degree is in Chemical Engineering, but I'm looking to pivot more into the CS field. What kind of jobs should I look for if I want to branch these two together, and would I be qualified at all? Do I just go back to school for CS?
Currently have ~2yrs experience as a project engineer.
I’m going to be a freshman in Chemical Engineering next year and was wondering what kind of computers would work. I’ve looked at the requirements on the website but I’m not sure what kind I should go with.
Basically I hate the coursework for CHEN, it stresses me out and I don’t find it interesting. I’m in honors with a 3.6 so it’s not like I’m struggling, I can do everything I just don’t enjoy it. On the other hand the internship I landed after my freshman year (been working for them since then, remotely when I’m in school) has been pretty great. I thought about changing majors but figured out it would take me like 6 years to graduate if I did and I’m already kind of old (22 year old junior). Just looking to see if anyone else has been in a similar situation
When I was studying the degree in Singapore, the website on my uni chemical department, said that chemical engineers are in high demand in many industries like pharma, energy, oil and gas, wastewater industries.
However my experience seems like although these industries do not really hire a lot of chemical engineers probably because the turnover for staff is low, and on the other hand, I feel the curriculum in my university is mainly more focused on the classical chemical engineering domain rather than the growing fields.
In fact the curriculum has drug design as an elective and not a core module to be taken.
It also does not feature industrial skills like GMP, statistical process control and PID, as in the practical part of it, we do have one course on process control but mainly on the mathematical part.
I wonder if the curriculum is just being too academic in Singapore or is it the same in other universities outside of Singapore.
Also are other universities teaching their chemical engineering courses in two semesters of 13 weeks each, which I feel doesn't allow time for mastery of the concepts?
Like to hear from fellow chemical engineering graduates from other universities.
Thank you.
I have an interview coming up and I'm unsure whether they'll ask questions on chemistry or physics or maths. I'm in the UK so I'm doing A-levels, should I learn the AS and A2 courses in preparation for the interview.?
Im about to go into IB and I am looking towards a career path in Chemical Engineering (possibly Environmental Sciences). Im contemplating if I want to pursue Chemical Engineering, but I want to know if it's the right fit for me. Is there anyone working or working towards this field who is open to give me your opinons/experience?
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I got an engineering honors scholarship and I won’t be able to pay for UT without it. The contingency is keeping a 3.5 which I’m pretty worried about.
Also: How strict is the contingency of keeping a 3.5 for maintaining the honors scholarship?
Hello Reddit! My name is Andrew Zydney, and I am currently Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. I also serve as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Membrane Science and I am on the Board of Directors of the North American Membrane Society. I am very much looking forward to my first time participating in Reddit.
Just to provide some background, I obtained my B.S. from Yale in 1980 and a PhD from MIT in 1985, both in Chemical Engineering. I then joined the faculty at the University of Delaware in 1985 before moving to Penn State in 2002. I served as Head of the Chemical Engineering Department here at Penn State from 2004-2014; I am very much enjoying being back as a “regular faculty member” since stepping down as Department Head.
My research interests are in membrane science and technology, with a particular focus on the application of membranes in both bioprocessing (e.g., for the purification of biopharmaceuticals) and biomedicine. The latter has included extensive work on the use of membranes in the artificial kidney, commonly referred to as hemodialysis, as well as the possibility of developing an implantable bioartificial kidney. Some of our work on the implantable artificial kidney is available in the online paper http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5285603/.
Note that I am not a medical doctor – I am a chemical engineer who is particularly interested in the development of membrane-based technologies that can have a significant impact in the treatment of disease. I do collaborate with clinicians, and also with medical technology companies, on a regular basis, both as a consultant and on research projects.
Please don’t hesitate to ask me anything about some of the research I’ve described above or more generally about hemodialysis and the artificial kidney. I look forward to our conversation!
I’ll be back at 12 noon ET (9 am PT, 5pm UTC) to answer specific questions.
r/ChemicalEngineering is one of my favorite cheme online communities. Please share other useful pages and websites for engineering, chemistry, academia, industry, etc that have helped you.
I'm a high school Senior planning to major in chemical engineering. I have currently taken AP Calculus AB and BC, AP Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, and AP Physics 1. I thought that this curriculum would give me a head start in terms of understanding engineering concepts, but when I look at homework and exam problems for chemical engineering, I didn't understand any of the questions.
Should I be able to understand engineering concepts with my curriculum rigor, or is it normal for a high school student to not understand a single thing about the chemical engineering curriculum, regardless of their curriculum rigor? I'm just worried because there are so many equations that I don't recognize like the Antoine equation. Even the way that stoichiometry and ideal gas law questions are framed in chemical engineering problems are foreign to me. I thought that I would be able to solve at least some of the more basic engineering problems, so I'm getting paranoid that I didn't learn enough from high school.
I am currently a 3rd year student and I want to pursue further studies in chemical engineering
Writing my thesis isn't going well at all (nor am I enjoying writing it) and I'm pretty sure it's about to be stopped by the professors. What can I do? I've got no work experience and a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering (though said degree isn't intended to get a job with but to get this master's degree). What do I do?
I'm 30. Chemical engineer by qualification but got no job experience. Would like to make the switch. Does Germany offer any opportunity?
I need you to take my Chemical Engineering thermodynamics I BS level.
I'm coming from outside Europe, so I'd have to shell out around 25k pounds, so I want to make this decision right.
What is the core theme of this course? I am actually more into renewable energy and material science
How difficult is the course? I've heard the one year courses in the UK are very intense.
How is the job opportunity of this course after Brexit? Heard it's a bit difficult for foreigners to get jobs
