<p>My (undergrad) school offers a pretty decent chemical engineering program. The problem I have is that because biology/medicine is so popular in my area they decided to throw in a couple of biotech focused courses and rename the whole degree "chemical and biomolecular engineering." Since I have no desire to do anything related with biotech or pharmaceuticals, how would graduating with this degree affect my chances at non-biologically oriented industrial's? Ideally I'd like to work as a process engineer at some sort of heavy industry (oil refineries, thermal power plants, steel mill) but I'm afraid they'll see the "bio" on my degree and think I'm going outside my area of expertise. Any insight would be welcome.</p>
<p>Just call it a chemical engineering degree on your resume. Not much trouble there.</p>
<p>Can you do that? Wouldn’t they do some sort of check?</p>
<p>I don’t see why you can’t do it. In fact, I have to sometime tell my potential employer I was trained as a chemical engineer even though my degree says biochemical engineering. Unfortunately, most employers don’t know what biochemical engineering do.</p>
<p>Your experiences matter more than what your degree say. So unless they’re cutting out crucial chemical engineering classes, which seems doubtful, you should have no trouble.</p>
<p>biochemical engineers are basically chemical engineers with extra training in biological processes so you could get the same jobs as any chemical engineer</p>