About Chemical Engineering Field

written by Seungyeon Lee

Among all the engineering fields, numbers of students are intrigued by chemical engineering since it is interesting and attractive field for them to study. As I am the one of them, I would love to introduce you about what exactly chemical engineering is and does in the future.

Chemical engineering which stresses chemistry, mathematics, and physics, mainly do a research, develop, sale or manufacture of chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electronic components, food, synthetic fibers, paper, and so on. They not only work for environment but also for medical and health-related fields.

Below are the things that chemical engineers can do in the future.

1. Conduct research and develop new products
2. Develop and design new manufacturing processes
3. Sell chemical products, such as, cosmetics, detergent to consumers
4. Work in biotechnology to solve an environmental issues.
5. Solve problems in chemical manufacturing facilities.

According to the survey by Payscale.com, college graduates who majored in chemical engineering were most likely be satisfied with their future jobs, which means chemical engineers are mostly satisfied with their occupations. 

As you can see, there are variety things that you can do when you graduate as a chemical engineer. Studying as an engineer can be difficult. However, the good news is that chemical engineers are most likely to enjoy what they are doing in the future. So even though it can be a little challenging through out college years, I bet it will be a very good experience for you who are engineers! 

Work cited : https://www.aiche.org/chenected/2010/10/chemical-engineering-major-ranked-number-1-job-satisfaction-survey

Prompt two: ethics in engineering

written by Yiran Li

After taking the course EGR101, there's a main chapter in the text book talking about ethics in engineering. Starts in the 19th century, 60 people was killed in the collapse of the Tay Bridge. After that, people start to concern about the engineering ethics. Personally, I think the important three important codes of ethics are ethical decision making, social responsibility, and academic honesty. In any occupation, the first rule is to obey the code of ethics.

First, engineers should be honest to the academic, which means people shouldn't claim others' work as their own. Plagiarism and copyright infringement are illegal and unethical. Now, there are high-tech plagiarism detectors to find whether there's unintentional plagiarism in the paper. To prevent it, we need to have formal bibliography when using words from internet or books.

When engineers are considering about making decisions, they should think about their stakeholders and issues. For instance, in a bridge constructing program, engineers should think several points--price of the construction, citizens may be affected and impacts on the local ecosystem. Also, the bridge is conductive to traffic and favorable to the economy. So when engineer premeditating the plan, they need to determine whether the project is more beneficial to the society or not. If the employer carries out the project that was detrimental, the employees must whistle-blow the company's unethical behavior.

In the engineers' career, he or she may face thousands of unexpected situations. The National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) have ethics codes to help analyze whether a situation is ethical or not. Engineers should be responsible for the safety, health, and welfare of the public when they fulfill their professional duties in their careers. 

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Versatility of Engineering

Written by: Callaghan TysonMayer

I did not declare engineering as my major until the end of first semester. I started college completely undecided with no direction in mind. As a result, my first semester classes were all general courses, mostly filled with freshmen. Through this wide range of courses I met  a lot of different people from various majors. I saw how other colleges run their courses; like the college of social science and the college of business. Every college is so different here at MSU and every student has a very different plan for what they intend to do with their major. The college of engineering is not an exception to this standard.

 In every field, the same degree will not get every student the same type of job; not every music major will be a professional musician, not every business major will be a CEO. Careers do not always match up with an individual's degree, there's not one set path for every major. That is especially true with engineering. An engineering degree can qualify an individual for lots of different jobs; especially with all the different fields of engineering.

 Since there are so many different types of engineering, every student has something very different in mind for their career path. Some students chose engineering so they would never end up sitting in an office for 40 hours a week; others crave working in a lab every day. Every engineer does something different, in very different environments. This is one reason an engineering degree is so versatile.

I have no idea what I want to do when I am out of college, but with an engineering degree I really don't need to have a specific job in mind. It will be easy to find a job I'm interested in that requires an engineering degree because there are so many different types of jobs in this field.