Unit 6: Chemical Engineering as a Career

Unit #6: Chemical Engineering as a Career
Chemical engineering is a very common career choice in the field of chemistry and engineering. It is an intersection of many disciplines, including basic and applied sciences, economics, and health and safety. Chemical engineering graduates use a series of operations to sustainably process raw natural materials into finished products. They work in any number of industries and during their careers, they may face a variety of challenges, such as optimizing processes and monitoring pollution, converting waste materials into renewable energy, processing foods and drugs, and manufacturing new materials.
In this article, ten reasons are given for why you should become a chemical engineer.
Some of the most intriguing reasons include: the money, working for big companies, the travel, the lifestyle, and how it’s recession-proof. Since the global recession in 2008, by and large, chemical engineers have retained their standard of living. In a period when many professions have seen their salaries decline in real terms, median salaries for the chemical engineering profession have grown steadily together to create a diverse team. This is not uncommon and represents the diversity of our profession. Employment of chemical engineers is also projected to grow 8 percent from 2016 to 2026, about as fast as the average for all occupations.
Although I personally wouldn’t want to enter the field of chemistry. If anything, I would be more interested in entering the field of biomedicine or just medicine. If you guys were looking for a career in the chemistry field, would you be interested in chemical engineering? If not, what career would you be interested in.

Link to article: https://www.engineering.unsw.edu.au/chemical-engineering/news/top-10-reasons-to-become-a-chemical-engineer

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  1. UnknownJanuary 16, 2019 at 5:09 PM

    Wow! That sounds like a really cool career option. I think the process of converting materials into more valuable and usable materials sounds really cool. This option seems really cool to me because this field requires you to take a variety of different science courses. Obviously I would also love to travel and earn enough money to keep me comfy, however I’m not sure what the demand for chemical engineers will be seeing as it is a fast growing market. Just like you, I don’t think chemical engineering would be the career path for me. Instead I would also like to take on biomedicine and potentially become a doctor or even a surgeon.

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