My Future My Future Job:Job:Chemical Chemical

EngineerEngineerDictionary Dictionary Definition:Definition:

An engineer that An engineer that deals with the deals with the industrial industrial applications of applications of chemistry and chemistry and chemical chemical processesprocesses

By: Meghan By: Meghan McLeroyMcLeroy

What is involved in the work?What is involved in the work?

• When you are a chemical engineer, you handle chemicals and try to solve problem using math and science. If your favorite subjects are math and science, chemical engineering might be a good career for you.

Where does the work take Where does the work take place?place?

• When you are a chemical engineer, you usually work in one of three places: in a laboratory, in an office, or in a manufacturing plant.

What are the working What are the working conditions?conditions?

• Chemical engineers have 8 to 9 hour work days and 40 to 50 hour work weeks. Chemical engineering is relatively safe, but sometimes it involves working with hazardous chemicals.

What type of training What type of training is needed to enter the is needed to enter the

field?field?•To be a chemical To be a chemical engineer, you need a engineer, you need a bachelor’s degree. In bachelor’s degree. In high school, you high school, you should take should take chemistry, math, chemistry, math, physics, and English physics, and English as your four core as your four core classes.classes.

What are the possibilities of What are the possibilities of moving to a higher position?moving to a higher position?

• After three years, you are usually promoted to an intermediate engineer position, and after five years, you are usually promoted to a senior engineer position.

What can you expect to earn What can you expect to earn when you start?when you start?

• You can expect to You can expect to make at least make at least $60,000 a year, which $60,000 a year, which is higher than the is higher than the average amount average amount recent college recent college graduates receive.graduates receive.

What are your future prospects What are your future prospects of the job? Is the field growing?of the job? Is the field growing?

• There is a high There is a high possibility that I will get possibility that I will get a job. The number of a job. The number of chemical engineers is chemical engineers is growing about as fast growing about as fast as the average. Also, if as the average. Also, if you’re good at what you’re good at what you do and you’re a you do and you’re a girl, the chances that girl, the chances that they will hire you are they will hire you are higher.higher.

How do you use writing and/or How do you use writing and/or reading skills in this field?reading skills in this field?

• You use reading to read You use reading to read experiment directions, experiment directions, labels on chemicals, and labels on chemicals, and much more. You use much more. You use writing to record the steps writing to record the steps you took to solve a you took to solve a problem, the results of an problem, the results of an experiment, which experiment, which chemical you used, and chemical you used, and more!more!

In Conclusion…In Conclusion…

Chemical engineering would be a great job for me because I like math, science, and problem solving. In chemical engineering, you get to do all of those things plus you get to participate in science experiments and projects!

Thank you for watching Thank you for watching my presentation!my presentation!

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