Prompt#6 Ordinary of Chemical Engineering

In the past several decades, the chemical engineering field has gone through a dramatic changes.

We are no longer a discipline largely coupled to a single industry, namely the petrochemical industry. Rather, graduates go to a wide variety of industries, including chemicals, fuels, electronics, food and consumer products, materials, and biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. Moreover, the character of the chemical industry has changed significantly, particularly in recent years. The chemical industry today is very much a global enterprise; companies have been reshaped by a series of mergers, acquisitions, and spin-offs; some major chemical companies have become life-science companies and spun off their chemical units; and the time to market for new products has been significantly shortened.(Armstrong)

Chemical engineer is really a common field and a lot of people right now are willing to choose enter this field. One reason is that chemical engineering is not a academic major, it is a practical job. Many companies are need chemical engineers and people can earn money being a chemical engineer. Second, it has a lot options. Biological related job, medical related job, chemical related job and so on are the career options for chemical engineering. From a big chemical factory to a food factory, we all can see the appearance of chemical engineers. 

Works Cite:

Armstrong, Robert C. "The Chemical Engineering Evolution: What Comes Next?" Chemical Engineering Progress 103.1 (2007): 1. ProQuest. Web. 17 Apr. 2016.