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-If you want to go towards management: an MBA is best. -As Jake pointed out, a PE in Controls would be enormously useful. Especially in opening doors However, advancement may require you going to another industry (Oil&Gas, Chemical, etc.)

Either you have moisture in your gas/reactor and the SO3 is turning into H2SO4, or you have a leak and your gas is leaving. Either way, willing to bet your total flow IN is not equal to the total theoretical flow OUT. You're measuring everything in %s, which may not be comparable to initial and...

Perry's Chemical Engineering Handbook

At the one point when I was looking at nuke jobs in college (I'm a ChemE), found that the DoD (Navy) hires continuously. They have their own nuclear school to become a Shift Test Engineer. Pretty impressive and actually, very well paying. Extremely competitive though. Would've gone that route if...

Do keep in mind that it is the industry sector producing demand, not the major. For example, getting a EE degree and pursuing a job with process controls will nearly guarantee a job. Or PLC logic (custom made control boards) for industrial plants. Now, if you eliminated such industries as oil...

Q1: Yes Q2: You can do that already with a ChemE degree. I know people working in instrumentation (EE/MechE type job) as well as control system designs for wastewater (EE/Civil) as a ChemE. Depends on what you want to do. Don't need a masters unless you want to do research. Q3: Working in...

How practical are you? And if you have a lot of common sense, industry could be much easier than school. This is definitely what I've found out.

Much of the reputation a university earns lies in the staff. A modern facility and the right classes is all fine and dandy, but if the teachers lack experience, the program will perform badly; graduates will not be hired

Depends on the type of job you want when you graduate. Research vs. Design Work vs. Field job

To be honest, probably by the time you graduate, the "hot" industry will have changed. 5 years ago no one knew petroleum would boom. No one knew the electronic boom would happen until it was happening. No one knows what's next. IMO, pick a rather broad major (core engineering) that you like...

I didn't get my PE, but did pass the FE If you have aspirations to run your own design firm, a PE is a necessity. Otherwise, an MBA may actually help more in career advancement. PE as mentioned previously is just a way to get sued pretty easily. Civil, EE, MechE, ChemE all have...

I doubt my kids will see the end of the oil "boom" sir. The demand for petroleum will be there for at least 50 years. ChemE (which is what I am), MechE, EE even PE (petro is the chemE's obnoxiously rich step brother) are all good. As long as you focus on a job at oil/gas/chemical plants or...

It depends. I certainly enjoy being a ChemE, but I would never ever get a PhD in anything. I would not recommend a double major. If you are interested in having job security, do engineering. Do Chemical Engineering. Or at least further into it.

If you can handle working in a (somewhat) stressful environment: Chemical Engineering or Petroleum Engineering. ChemEs are more versatile, PetroEs make more $ off the bat. Oil and Gas is BOOMING and jobs are everywhere.

Drug development or drug production? Chemists typically invent the drug, ChemE's/BioChemE's will typically mass produce the drug (or work on ways it can be mass produced).