Chemical engineering/education

anhydrite
Fri, 06 Feb 2015 04:29:29 +0000

Well, you may be able to teach, but a few things:

Chemical engineering is difficult. It can have good job prospects if you do well, e.g. internships, research, co-ops, etc. If you don’t intend to work in industry as a chemical engineer, it may make more sense to study chemistry as a natural science.

If you’re looking to become a research chemist at a university (or perhaps go into industry as well; this certainly happens, but with a slightly different emphasis than engineering – e.g. chem as a natural science can be more theoretical, and / or applied, but you’d need be a high-performing candidate), you’d need to complete a PhD in a sub-field of chemistry. If you truly wanted to teach chemistry at the high school level, you probably could do this with a solid undergraduate program, perhaps an MS in chemistry; then, the proper respective high school education credential in whatever state you intend to teach in.