Chemical engineers’ job duties and requirements

Written by Yiran Li
      Job Duties

Chemical Engineers mainly work in manufacturing, biotechnology or health care. Based on the chemists' discovery, chemical engineers need to use computer model to test the feasibility of the product and to determine its safety to consumer and environment. For instance, chemical engineers work contains optimizing production process, monitoring development and troubleshooting, design the product line with maximum outputs and have equipment based on the environment and economic aspects.

Education Requirements / Professional Requirements

Typically, people need a bachelor's degree in chemistry or chemical engineering to be a chemical engineer. For some jobs, you need to have a Professional Engineering designation through licensure. In the college, chemical engineers' college curriculum will include subjects such as chemical engineering design, linear algebra, biochemical engineering, calculus, chemical reactor design, quantum mechanics and chemical process calculations. Also, you may need strong IT skills, leadership, commercial and business skills and problem-solving ability.

Professional development

The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) provides many training courses for chemical engineers and some related alternative occupations. Many companies provide internal-training to make sure that graduates can work as professional engineers. Some of those are authorized by IChemE which called Accredited Company Training Schemes (ACTS).

Reference

http://learn.org/articles/Chemical_Engineer_Job_Duties_Occupational_Outlook_and_Education_Requirements.html
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/architecture-and-engineering/chemical-engineers.html
http://www.icheme.org/