<p>I know a Chem E senior and he's told me Chem E is kind of like "process engineering" or something, whatever that means. </p>
<p>I don't know if Chem E is for me though. Does not like AP Chemistry in high school count for me not gonna be liking the Chem E discipline?</p>
<p>ChemE is not like Chemistry. If anything it's more like behavioral chemistry (if such a thing were to exist). You concern yourself with properties and interactions on a very macro level.</p>
<p>Process engineering is the study of the series of systems and reactions that are employed to generate an end product. Process Engineer is a generic title given to many chemical, mechanical, and electrical engineers. As a Process Chemical Engineer you will employ your broad understanding of chemistry, physics, heat transfer, fluid dynamics, and kinetics (catalytic reactions) to design, improve, and torubleshoot manufacturing facilities for a multitude of industries.</p>
<p>Would you sat that ChemE is a combination of classical physics and physical chemistry/thermodynamics? I took Chem 1 and Chem 2 and found Chem 2 to be more enjoyable because it involved thermodynamics.</p>
<p>PChem and Thermodynamics is emphasised in Chemical Engineering. I had to take 2 separate thermodynamic series, that had a lot of overlap, in order to get my degree. I only took one Pchem series. Mass and Energy balances seems to fill in the rest; course like fluid dynamics, mass transfer, and heat transfer. These are basic input = output, boundary layer, equations that get terribly complicate quite quickly. Fourier's Law, Navier-Stokes equations, Bernoulli's Equation and Euler Equations are such examples. </p>
<p>I don't know what you learned in Chem 1 and 2, but if it was pretty basic than its probably more likely that you need to know that stuff, but more so the concepts. You'll learn what you need to by using. If you never use the term molality in your industry you probably won't be alone. Or, if you never have to calculate a pH again you won't be considered a bad engineer.</p>
<p>I heard PChem was a b***h. I don't have to take it but if I do it will give me a Chemstry minor.</p>
<p>Good ole Fourier, Navier-Stokes (our professor sucked when I learned these).
Bernoulli is my good friend, lol.</p>
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One reason could be that ChemE got the most women of all the eng majors and women are not represented on the internet to the same extent as men are.</p>
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<p>Actually, I think BioE/BioMedE has ChemE beat in terms of the percentage of women in the major.</p>
<p>A better question woudl be where are all the science majors? I'm trying to decide whether to be a chemical engineer or a chemist. Luckily, I can finagle a scheduel where that choice is put off for about a year. Out of curiosity, for any ChemE's here, how is the specialisation. I'm fine with having a narrow scope in what I do, but my great fear is to get trapped in an industry that 5 years down the line I'll hate, or is a dead end.</p>
<p>Any chemical engineer majors here who are going into patent law?</p>
<p>Science majors wouldn't usually be in the engineering forum. Though there isn't a science forum on CC, there are other sites out there that cater more towards those people. On CC, they're usually in other forums, probably College Life.</p>