<p>heh heh 10char</p>
<p>It is consider one of the harder engineering discipline :(…</p>
<p>A lot of people think antibacterial hand sanitizer kills viruses, too, but that doesn’t make that true either.</p>
<p>There is question as to whether ChemE is tough - but tough, hard, etc, are all adjectives, which can only be personally reflected. I’d personally have a harder time majoring in CS or Chinese than ChemE - but that’s only because of my own capabilities. That’s why that “what is the hardest major” thread has never ended in it’s decade on CC.</p>
<p>It is true that many chemical engineers go on to become process and design engineers where their day-to-day work is to optimize, troubleshoot and design unit operations such as reactors, distillation columns, pumps, heat exchangers and so forth.</p>
<p>Your career goals are very research-oriented, which very often require a Ph.D., no matter the field. Don’t give up so easily on chem E. You may one day find an unexpected but interesting career out of it.</p>
<p>Is it going to take more than just a love for Chemistry as well as math to go into the ChemE major? I’m a senior in HS right now and I’m applying to colleges going in for ChemE. Wouldn’t mind some input. Thanks :D</p>
<p>From what I’ve heard, ChemE is more physics than chemistry. How do you like physics?</p>
<p>Sure there’s probably more physics work in your actual job but undergrad ChemE has a crapload of chem courses (namely organic chem which i hear will kill your face and bang your girlfriend) so I hope you like chem man :/</p>
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<p>I don’t understand what you asking between the lines. Certainly, it is a good idea to like chemistry and working with chemicals. You don’t work with physical structures or circuits in ChE, you work with…chemicals. But more important to ChE is a natural curiosity for how things work and a love of solving problems, but those are skills you need for all disciplines of engineering.</p>
<p>I have a question:</p>
<p>I’ve read in a couple of places that chemical engineering was one of the most basic engineering majors along with mechanical engineering. I heard that it would allow me to specialize in others easily. I also wonder if chemical engineering is just about building power plants. . . because that’s definitely not what I want to be doing when I’m older. I really enjoy chemistry physics, but building a spaceship is more appealing to me than building petroleum plants. Would a degree in chemical engineering help me do well in aerospace possibly in graduate school? I guess what I’m asking is if chemical engineering will allow me to expand and not just “create optimal conditions in a chemical plant to maximize the conversion or yield of a reaction.”</p>
<p>If you want a build a spaceship, then why are you interested in chem E? Sounds like you should be looking to aerospace engineering ?</p>
<p>i just started a chemE degree and i actually feel exactly like the OP… what’s the point of a degree that “creates optimal conditions in a chemical plant to maximize yield/profit” … SERIOUSLY?! now im wondering what the hell made me chose this in the first place</p>
<p>^ Money? They are one of the highest paid engineers with only a bachelor degree: [url=<a href=“http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos027.htm#projections_data]Engineers[/url”>http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos027.htm#projections_data]Engineers[/url</a>]</p>
<p>"What’s the point of a degree that “creates optimal conditions in a chemical plant to maximize yield/profit”.</p>
<p>Well the fun I’m guessing is setting up the info-structure for an idea/product using applied physics, chemistry & biology.
So you’re;</p>
<p>1) experimenting</p>
<p>2) manipulating the environment</p>
<p>3) manipulating how the product response to the environment</p>
<p>4) 2&3</p>
<p>ChemE has a broad spectrum of applications, which use rigid experimentation/repetitive processes in return for a high paycheck. What I think makes ChemE so hot in bio-med is because organism’s info-structure adapt to the environment and that probably makes work easy. Of course I wouldn’t necessarily want be a microbiologist unless that info-structure permits me to get across obstacles to getting work done.</p>
<p>umm don’t computer hardware engineers make more then chemical engineers tho?
and plus, going into engineering for the money is stupid anyway, since there are easier ways to $$$ (namely law)</p>
<p>Yeah, but lawyers make their money from the misfortune of others. I agree with you that money is not everything, I’m in it for primarily knowing how things work.</p>
<p>" I agree with you that money is not everything, I’m in it for primarily knowing how things work. "
- Ummm… depending on what you mean by that, you might be better served by the hard sciences… physics, chemistry, biology, geology, mathematics, etc. There’s a philosophical difference between knowing how things work and knowing how to make things work. If you’re really in it for the pursuit of knowledge… especially fundamentally new knowledge… the only reason to opt for engineering over science is money, and you just said money isn’t everything.</p>
<p>Just my 2 cents.</p>
<p>hmm so can anyone tell me what are some of the cool things you can do with chemE?
like how in EE you can make a video game from a hardware-only circuit board, or in CS you can make your own compiler etc;?</p>
<p>I’m not trying to jump on the safest job band wagon, instead I want to find something with lots of potential & relevant to my interest. Also lets not forget ChemE is apart of manufacturing, which doing bad in US. My own interest in how ‘men-made things work’ goes all the way back to my early childhood to trajectory I’m on today, so I’ll leave it at that. It doesn’t brother me that I have to work under 65k, if I enjoy playing the game and seeing the potential then $ doesn’t matter as long as I’m not starving. ChemE gives me perspective of implementing at different angles, and also see that distance b/w these pure sciences don’t matter since they can all be used to help benefit men kind. Think of it as an applied pure science revolution, with the goal of giving customers a solution whom potential is motivated by their money.</p>
<p>Cool things you can do with ChemE are create ions, room temperature plasmas, welding plasmas, nano tech, films, alternative energy, drugs is big one, tissue, lcds, processes and working in a factory.</p>
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<p>Here’s one: ChemE’s can brew their own beer.</p>
<p>Similarly, winemaking, liquor distillation - all chemical engineering processes.</p>