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I'm going to be a senior with Chemistry major and math minor. The problem is, I don't want to do chemistry research anymore and interested in working as a chemical engineer. I also think my mathematics minor sparked my interest in it. In my senior year I'll be working for a professor in a research lab about nanotechnology to achieve solar-to-chemical energy conversion because it looks good on my resume and I want to make some money.

So for next step should I try to find a summer ChemE internship after graduation?
Also, can chemistry majors get engineering jobs in indutries like Renewable Energy, or should I get master's in Chemical Engineering?

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Re: Going to be a senior Chemistry major - Please help me what to do!
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2010, 09:33:25 PM »
I would start talking to some chemE profs to see what they think.
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Re: Going to be a senior Chemistry major - Please help me what to do!
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2010, 04:17:08 PM »
I know what you mean. I am going to be a senior chemistry major this year too. At least your better off than me though. I haven't done any research and am not really sure what I want to do with a Chemistry BA.

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