[o0CY0o]

I am currently a chemical engineering student and want some advice.
It seems that chemical engineering is very different from chemistry. Yet, how come my prof. could deliver papers to the chemical journals..he's doing advance material for chemical engineer.

Also, i'd like to ask if i am more interested in natual science. eg, material science... polymer.. advance material and stuff like that.. should i still stay in chemical engineering feild ? or i should rather change to chemistry?

And if i intended to work on these feild in my post grad. should i take minor in chemistry at least? would it be useful??

Thanks for you advice.

[gluedudeguru]

As a chemist, i vote chemistry (biased of course), but with chemistry, you open up MANY more fields that you can go into where the engineers have to stick with a smaller scope.  With my chem degree i have worked in many different fields and now im doing the work of a chem eng, but it may take a bit more work (and P. Chem...eww)

[oyewale]

As a chemical engineering student also. if you wish to explore natural analysis, you can choose any of the two,
The basic differences are just that chemists works majorly on small quantities of material that is they perform majorly analysis and properties of a substance and view the way they can proceed in a reaction but as a chemical engineer you face basical usage of the design and the modelling of the results obtained from the analysis of the chemist. Also you can also continue in any of the field for your second degree or further without dependence on which ever one you choose on your first degree.

[eugenedakin]

Hello oyewale,

I am a chemist, and the volumes that I work with are quite large. As an example, I work (on a daily basis) of no less than one million gallons of material per day. Yes, I perform analysis and create new products that are either gaseous, liquid or solid (organic or inorganic), and require a great deal of interpretation in very complex situations (computer modelling programs have not been created for this - due to the complexity of the model).

Just my $0.02,

Eugene

[QbanEngine]

I am a Junior Cheme student, and I can tell you that the mayor difference between chemistry and Cheme is that we use our knowledge of chemistry for the purpose of design. Also we focus on the production of useful things (i.e. power plant design) based on the properties of the chemicals. Getting a chemistry minor will just look pretty on your resume (I have one) but will not really help you be a better chemical engineer. Chemical Engineering focuses more on physics, in fact, you can be really good in physics and not so good in chemistry and you will still make a great chemical engineer.