I'm thinking about it because I really admire the skills (any engineer skills)and the career pays a lot better and is way more versatile than the career I'm currently involved with(EMS). But I've never been a math and science guy, I guess if I were gonna do this I would have to become a math and science guy. Every month I live pay check to pay check and it's pushing me harder and harder to want to pursue something more difficult more challenging but has a better lifestyle. Slave wage life no bueno. I also like the idea of working 30 days on and 30 days off as a contractor in the oilfield... I don't know what other engineering field would offer that much time off to travel the world and enjoy life.
Thank you Jake , for this insightful description of chemical engineering. My previous program , Materials engineering was a sub discipline of this branch.
Jake, along with a hockey account I subscribe to with 20k subscribers, might be the most underrated RU-vid accounts. Mechanical Engineer recent grad btw
Chemical Engineering is a very good to degree to be competitive in other industries too. So many of my peers got into Finance, Management Consulting, Tech etc
@@JakeVoorhees Yes please. It seems like the traditional industries are either saturated, shrinking in size, or hard to get into. I would love to go into a traditional engineering field, but I also need a paycheck.
Interesting that Ash mentioned including your GPA. My granddaughter is studying cheme at UMich College of Engineering. Going into her senior year her GPA is 3.85, into which she has put a lot of effort. But there have been thosewho sayGPA doesn't matter. I guess it does.
I got my chem e degree back in 2001_ I never used my degree- I regret that, but now I have no Chem E experience and I don't know what to do_ I still would like to work as a chemical engineer
I'm really struggling to choose in between chemical engineering, process engineering and production engineering. I also have plans to do master's. So, what would be the better option and more flexible degree to take in bachelor's?
I guess you got really confused! I am a ChemE , I took classes to make me understand these area . I worked on these career field before . Try new things 3:32 and no need to struggle. So making things requires a process and process engineering needs to understand statistics, data analysis stuffs, blah blah and design a process based on a simple chemical formula or just some dataset. Production more rigid since you follow somebody designed process and tracking on performance, writing procedure, deal with operators. Let me know if you want to know more ..
Currently taking a bachelor degree in Pure Chemistry, would it be a good idea swapping into chemE with my major degree (2years)? Im afraid that I would be considered a less "usefull" engineer since I didn't take the complete 3+2 engineer studies (I'm an European student)
Hey thanks for the comment. Check out these videos for some support. “How to Pick Right Engineering Major” ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HJEnStKewqo.html “What Engineering Major Should I Choose?” ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Rlc2T177bkw.html And if you’re feeling confused about how and when to choose an engineering major, you’re not alone. This is the most common question I get. Here is a detailed way to help you decide. This is a situation I see pretty often. It’s really hard to know which field to go into within engineering. Continue to work hard and follow your dreams, chase your interests, and make sure to always keep your options open and your optimism up. There is not "right time" to choose a major, but there is a loose formula for attempting to know the best choice at the time. You have to look at your skills and interests around engineering.There are only three big engineering categories, so lets start there. Each of Civil/Mechanical/Electrical are the only fields in the USA with over 300,000 jobs. Chemical for example, is just 32,600. Biomedical, 19,000. Even Aerospace at 65,000 or Environmental with 55,000 roles are good choices. Either way, let's look at the big three first. Mechanical. Mechanical Engineers work in a few main categories including machine component and manufacturing design, heating ventilating and cooling systems for buildings, and thermal and fluid systems. If you take apart things and put them back together, want to invent things, 3D print, model stuff, and tinker and build things, then ME may be for you. There can be some programming involved, especially if you start to lean towards the Mechatronics side of the industry, which begins to incorporate more electronics/computer engineering with some programming. But you can avoid a lot of programming if you choose. Civil. Civil Engineers have five areas of specialty. They design and build buildings and bridges and other structures, transportation systems, geotechnical systems (under the ground), they work with the environment/water resources, and then coastal. Construction Engineering and Management is another similar industry that civil engineers can work in. If you were the engineer building legos, playing sim city, and wanting to build things rather than take apart stuff and put it back together, you could be a civil engineer. You can also be very much less of a programmer and get away with it. I am a civil engineer, and I have essentially zero programming skills. Electrical. Also called "Electrical & Electronics Engineering". This field is probably the best for the future. Electrical engineer work with electrical power/dist/generation, telecommunications, semiconductor design and manufacturing, signals & controls, aerospace parts and manufacturing, and research and development. Electrical engineering is very different from civil/mechanical because it is theoretical rather than tangible. You cannot see electricity or magnetism, and you cannot see what is happening with circuits or semiconductors. Because of this, EEs take more math and harder math, besides PDEs that mechanical engineers must take like fluid/thermodynamics. But EE is considering the most math and harder math, and because its 100% theoretical, typically an EE can learn ME math and adapt to the physica word easier than a ME or CE can do the other way around. Unlike in CE and usually in ME, EEs must be good programmers too. EEs often can work as software developers or software engineers after university, because they require so much coding skill. This also means EE is the safest for the future, as there are 1.4M software developer jobs growing at a rate of 22% right now. Thats more jobs than CE/ME/EE/IE (industrial engineering is 4th with 285,000 jobs) combined. Industrial. This would be the 4th consideration, particularly if you are not as good at math, are a better communicator, and want to work more with people other things rather than design or calculations or the "engineering work" within the engineering world. Industrial Engineering is very different from other engineerings in that it considered the entire system perspective, rather than simply optimizing the parts of the systems themselves first, which is what most engineering does. In IE, you must consider the entire system first in order or maximize the sum of the parts. IEs work in manufacturing, human factors, safety optimization to eliminate injury, etc. Outside of the big 3 and then IE, there are smaller branches like mentioned before. Computer engineering is very similar to EE, Aerospace engineering can be achieved with an ME degree and many AEs go to grad school, chemical engineering is so small that I only recommend it if you are from a very chemical engineering heavy country. Biomedical engineering is very small and in my opinion, should then be avoided for undergrad. Environmental engineering is 55,000 strong, and same thing as AE. You can get into environmental engineering through civil engineering. In fact, my degree is called "Civil & Environmental Engineering" so I could do just that if I want. There are other small engineering majors too, like materials or petroleum, nuclear and manufacturing, but you can get into any of these my majoring in one of the big 3 and ending up there in your career. Choose one of the big 3, and you will be fine. Does this make sense and help? Let me know what follow up questions you have okay? I respond to 100% of comments. I will be making a new how to choose an engineering major video soon, thanks!
Hi there, I've watched your video about engineering laptops and I'm wondering if my laptop can cope with the requirements of CAD system. My laptop do not have dedicated graphics card but it has iGPU which is vega 7. Can I run CAD smoothly with it?
Awesome! Thanks for the comment. Is there anything I can help you with? Make sure you see my other chemical engineering video too okay, “Chemical Engineer Interview” ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5o8QzeIlHuk.html Let me know what you're trying to figure out next, as I respond to 100% of comments, cheers!
@@JakeVoorhees I have above average skills in math and science. However, I am an extremely hard worker and self disciplined. All I have to do is take a few classes and I am ready for chemical engineering. I want to become a chemical engineer with a masters degree and move to Dallas, Texas for employment. I am confident I will have a job after college because I am planning for internships in a few years.
Jake, Why are you hate Chemical and you are living, breathing and eating in Chemistry. First, the most non-engineer think chemical is bad and they didn’t think water is a chemical, beer is chemical, wine is a chemical and air is a chemical! Your pee is a chemical too. Our body is regulated by chemical reaction. To hate chemical mean dumb ass failed chemistry and like dumb ass can’t make it to become an Engineer and insult us we can’t spell and we can’t write. The most stupid things for non engineer to say they are good at math but what they mean they can do arithmetic! and not others more complex mathematics. Back to what chemE does, Beside Petrochemical, we do Mineral extraction, all chemistry , to get our lithium, aluminum.. Semiconductor processing to make your chips( all chemistry), waste treatment and recycling all chemistry, keep our air clean all chemistry, food processing (all chemistry), and more.. Rocket fuels, weapon system, battery all chemistry, protection and barriers all chemistry.. we call ourselves, God assistant! Indeed, chemical is neither good or bad, please do not let the Chemistry failed environmentalist tell you chemicals are bad. We need Chemicals, we live with chemicals(like your blood) and we sleep with chemicals. Chemical doesn’t have to be in liquid, they can be at solids and gases. Finally, I hope I changed what you think chemicals are bad. I like to share a good laugh when people talked about organics food to an organic chemist. Good job and stay in touch.
