<p>I am a second year cheme. I just recently started hearing things about the working conditions of chemical engineers. I knew that cheme’s work in plants, but I never considered the actual bodily harm.</p>
<p>I went to a power plant with my class and found that it was extremely noisy. I would hate to work there unless I was in an insulated room. I have heard from people who have done internships that they were often exposed to clouds of chemical vapor. One person even said she developed a medical condition from it.</p>
<p>I look at the process engineering job offerings on my college’s job board. Many of them mention “loud noise and heat” in the description.</p>
<p>ChemEs can and will work in a variety of settings. In my time I’ve worked in clean rooms as well as industrial settings, had an office there as well. I’ve also worked in an office setting in a nice little business park were I rarely set foot in a facility of any kind as I was in design. I now work in an industrial park with a little pilot plant outside my office door. </p>
<p>Basically, you can work in any type of setting, depending on what you want to do.</p>
<p>Yeah, I suspect that is true. However, I’m afraid of being in hazardous conditions as an intern, at a point in my career where I would have little control over my work.</p>
Sounds exaggerated to me. Even if that was true, that’s a lawsuit right there and obviously it wouldn’t be the norm in the industry. This is why we have OSHA.</p>