Pick: electrical or chemical

uaprophet
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:14:37 +0000

Jmilton hit the spot. My supervisor always joked that CHE has nothing to do with chemistry. CHE teaches you processes and thinking skills. We design processes that take a raw product to a finished product, or that increase efficiency. At my co-op, the CHEs were the go to guys. The chemists would run tests on various drugs or polymers, but when it came time to create the drug for clinical testing, they would send it to us to scale up and determine the best way to actually produce it. At the same time, I was still able to go in the labs with the chemists and do some tests myself. I was able to play both sides of the fence.