What do chemical engineers do?

LastThreeYears
Sun, 10 Apr 2011 02:36:48 +0000

Sorry for this, I have a relevant question:

I find the study of transport phenomena, physical chemistry, and solid state physics very challenging and interesting. Though my B.S. is not in ChemE, I’ve taken or will take most of their core classes (my school has a strict credit limit) and found most of them very useful. I thought I’d go to grad school in ChemE, but it seems like there’s alot more management and economics in ChemE jobs than what I’m used to. It seems from the replies here that most chemical engineers are hired for jobs different from the sort of engineering design I had in mind, that is, not actually designing the reactors, or a new sort of material.

Would Materials Engineering or Metallurgy be a better choice for someone who is more into the technical side of things?