What is Chemical Engineering?
Chemical Engineering is the field of engineering that deals with manufacturing processes where chemical reactions are involved. Students who are studying chemical engineering start by taking basic science courses in mathematics, chemistry, and physics. Chemical engineering students also take advanced basic science courses such as organic and physical chemistry along with two years of engineering science courses which focus on applications of heat, mass, and momentum transport, chemical reaction, and chemical process simulation, design, optimization and control. Chemical engineering students also study the application of process economics and project investment analysis.
Careers in Chemical Engineering
Because of their very diverse education, chemical engineers can find employment in many different fields and industries including processing of oil and gas into finished products, finding solutions to air and water pollution problems, reducing corrosion in chemical processing plants, producing plastics and other polymer products, manufacturing pharmaceutical and specialty chemicals and food products, and manufacture of microelectronic devices to name a few. A chemical engineering degree also gives students an excellent background for advanced study in such fields as bio-engineering, materials science, and even medicine and law.
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