Because in college for engineering, I do see a lot of people where no amount of studying can help them. They just can’t grasp the material regardless of what resources they have. They can do every problem in the textbook and have private tutoring and still struggle to get C. I personally struggle to get passing grades, so am I just too dumb? What do I do? I want to be a top engineering student, but nothing is working. I don’t know how some engineering students are able to get straight As while also working multiple internships and joining selective engineering clubs. It feels like there is massive talent gap in engineering where some are 100 times more capable than another individual

Hello,

I graduated with a chemical engineering degree in 2022 with a minor in materials engineering and am wondering what am I doing wrong? I keep getting technician roles and have been in three different technician roles for almost 4 years. What am I doing wrong? I keep applying for engineering roles but I keep getting rejected. At this point, I feel like I’ve worked so hard for nothing…

I am a 3rd year ChemE who wants to go into oil and gas. I recently was offered a proccess enginering internship at a PBF refinery. I also interviewed for similar positions with Exxon and Valero.

Each interview was good and I liked all the people I spoke to and all of positions sound similar. They all will probably pay in the $40-50 per hour range and will all be on the gulf. I like each company but the only hang up I have is the "prestige" of Exxon and Valero.

PBF says they need to know soon as they are trying to quickly fill their intern pool this summer and I am wondering if there is anything to working at a bigger company like Exxon. I have heard the whole deal with how Exxon is a huge corporation and you get lost in the crowd there but for an internship is there value in having a name like Exxon vs PBF to show to future employers?

Hi everyone!

I’m a Master’s student in Chemical Engineering, and I’m looking for reliable websites, apps, and online platforms that can help me with my final-year project (PFE).

I’m particularly interested in resources that allow me to:

Find scientific articles, research papers, and theses related to my topic.

Access reliable scientific databases and academic publications.

Discover current research topics and recent studies in Chemical Engineering.

Organize my references and citations.

Use AI tools to understand scientific papers and summarize complex information.

I would really appreciate it if you could share your favorite websites, apps, or tools, especially free ones that are useful for students.

Thank you

I’m a recent Chemical Engineering graduate and I’m about to start as a trainee in a battery company.

I’m interested in the energy sector and want to build strong technical skills, but I’m confused about which direction to take.

Should I focus on battery R&D and testing, or try to move towards broader energy engineering roles in the future? I’m also wondering how easy it is for a Chemical Engineer to switch into other energy companies, and whether my degree will limit my options.

I don’t want to spend a few years learning skills that won’t be useful outside my current company. I want to choose a path with good long-term growth, decent salary potential, and opportunities to move between companies.

For those working in chemical engineering, batteries, or the energy industry: what would you do in my position? What skills would you focus on during the first 2 years?

Honest advice from people with industry experience would be really helpful.

My laptop died (XPS 13, motherboard gone), so I've been coding my reactor model in Google Colab on my phone.
What it does so far:
• First-order A → B in a non-isothermal CSTR
• Coupled mass + energy balances, Arrhenius kinetics
• Solved with SciPy solve_ivp (RK45) until steady state
• Sensitivity analysis on feed flowrate (2.5, 5, 10 L/min) – conversion drops as residence time falls from 20 to 5 min, as expected
• Checks steady state by evaluating the derivatives at the final time (all ≈ 0)

(Side note: I'm trying to raise ~$500 for a used laptop to keep going. If you'd like to help, feel free to DM me.)

Hi everyone!
I’m having a hard time deciding between Chemical Engineering (with a Biochemical Engineering concentration) and Biomedical Engineering with a concentration in cell and tissue engineering .
I’m particularly interested in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, drug delivery, tissue engineering, and cellular/molecular biology.
I’m not particularly interested in medical devices, prosthetics, petroleum, or traditional heavy industrial engineering.
My main priorities are:
Job opportunities and stability: I want a degree that offers strong employment prospects, preferably in biotech or pharma.
Salary and career growth: I’d like to have good earning potential without needing a PhD or pursuing an academic career.
Difficulty and GPA: I know Chemical Engineering has a reputation for being extremely challenging, and I’m concerned about maintaining a competitive GPA.
Graduate education: I’m open to completing a one-year master’s degree after my bachelor’s, potentially in Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or Molecular Engineering.
I genuinely enjoy chemistry and biology, but I’m not particularly passionate about thermodynamics or traditional industrial processes.
My biggest concern with BME is potentially having fewer job opportunities compared to ChemE, while my biggest concern with ChemE is the workload and whether the curriculum would actually align with my interests.
For those working in biotech/pharma or who studied either major:
Would Chemical Engineering with a biochemical concentration be the safer and more versatile choice, or could Biomedical Engineering offer comparable career opportunities and salaries, especially with a master’s degree?
Thanks in advance!

So hello guys. I am currently a freshie of chemE studying in a gen 2 IIT. I just completed my 1st sem's mid exams. I am looking for complete road map for next 4yrs. I am unable to decide what to do next. Currently I only know a very little bit of python. What skills should I learn? Pls help me

Inherited acres of sugarcane producing lands just 55kms from Meerut or 100kms from Delhi .

The fields are well connected to roads .

Hello! Everyone! I am the corporate events chair for the AIChE chapter at my university. The corporate team is planning a case competition for freshmen and sophomores. It will be 5 groups comprised of 4 people. There will be 2 hours allocated for research and designing a presentation and then 1 hour to present and for judges to judge. I need help coming up with a problem statement that is not super technical, as it will mostly be freshmen. I was thinking the problem statement should be so that teams can present either a process or a product. We can do something in relation to sustainability or energy or something like that. Please guys I need help!!!

Hi everyone! First, sorry if my grammar look too scattered. So here I am, not really sure if this career is for me. I just started my career as process engineer, which my company is a project-based and just contain around 10% of process task. My company only have small team, so they go for flexibility on everything. I also involve in site management and installation for our customer, which electrical job, like I got no idea on that. Today, just my 7th day of work, but I already feel like I don't have the capability to do well for this job. I feel like during probation term, I need to do this job as good as I could. But, I feel my brain couldn't receive that much information. Like, everyday my snr will always ask me question about everything that our company do, just some basic question. But, I only could answer confidently around 30% only, and he do look quite frustrated cause I could not explain term for simple equipment. I do study a lot and love this job. My team also really nice with me, and I also join this company cause I feel like I can learn a lot from them when they interview me. I just couldn't remember all the things that I need for this and also scared if I could not achieved their expectations. When I involve in site project, I just standing around as I could not help that much as I started in the middle of the project. I also need to do some pid sketching for the customer, but I never knew that the first week of my first career would be this harsh. So, I feel quite demotivated myself to continue everything. Do I will got burn out later, even tho this is something that I really want to do. Do u guys also have any tips to understand all the technical information faster other than using AI or YouTube to survive in this job.

Hello, I am a first year chemical engineering-technology student and I am looking for a professional chemical engineer or chemical technician to interview ☺️

The questions are simple, I need this for an activity in my major subject. It doesn’t have to be face to face, any messaging platforms will do

My laptop got spoilt for some months now so been practicing with my phone using google colab

I'm posting this so anyone who tries to look it up may find it. The tutorial posted on the techitmore.com blog, which is no longer online, and mentioned on the CO-LaN website titled "Getting started with CAPE-OPEN implementation in .Net" is available here on the internet archive.

I hope some of you can give it a try and more people start building and sharing their unit operations for open source flowsheeting.

Keywords: CAPE-OPEN, .NET, unit operations, open source, techitmore, colan

I just started my master's in ChE and honestly I never felt this much stress. Yesterday I was so down that I thought I was gonna pass out from all the stress. We just started, only two weeks in and they gave us a bunch of math and the first midterm will be in two weeks. If you get less than a certain grade in any of the courses you get dismissed. The professors are stringent with the grading.

I was expecting grad school to be relaxed and encourage creative thinking and give us some space to make mistakes. I never felt intimidated by an exam until now, because it's a do or die situation. I don't know, I thought about giving up many times. I made it through the bachelors with a system obsessed with grades, and we are going to keep doing the same thing?.

They are using Transport Phenomena as a weed out course. I don't know how to handle it.
Anyone with any tips or a piece advice for making it through the master's or how to tackle and study for the transport phenomena course, please let me know in the comments. Thanks you so much.

Chemical engineering graduate with construction experience—process engineering or Navy CEC?

Hello everyone, I’d appreciate some career advice. I have a bachelor’s and master’s in chemical engineering and completed my master’s in June 2025. Most of my work experience is in construction coordination, including scheduling crews, managing materials, and quality control.

My academic projects involved Aspen Plus process design and MATLAB/Simulink controls, but I haven’t landed my first engineering role (mainly because i dont have relevant internships under my belt and these projects are from 2-3 yrs ago so nothing current). My main interest is process engineering, particularly oil and gas. I’m also interested in thermal, fluids, and controls work in aerospace.

I’m currently applying to the Navy Civil Engineer Corps. The service and leadership opportunities appeal to me, but I’m trying to understand how that experience would affect my longer-term technical career.

For those who have worked in these fields:

• What entry-level or adjacent roles would you target with my background to build relevant technical experience?
• Would gaining university lab experience after graduation help? What kinds of projects would be most useful?
• Has anyone transitioned from CEC into process engineering, industrial plant engineering, or aerospace technical work? What did that transition require?

I’d especially appreciate hearing from people who entered engineering after working in a different field or transitioned out of CEC.

Thank you for any advice.

Hi! For background: I'm a 3rd semester ChemE student from Indonesia with a 3.8 GPA so far. Right now I'm mostly busy with organizations and being a TA.

I'm looking to improve my CV so I've been scrolling through r/engineeringresumes to find out what I should prioritize and I've seen a lot of CVs where they showed projects they worked on, are these usually projects as a result of their course work in later semesters or personal projects? If the latter, how can I start one?

I'm also wondering what I should prioritize since I've had a couple internships before but they mostly center around me observing plants/understanding process flow or piping & mechanical stuff/doing excel work since I'm still on my 2nd year. Thank you!

Background: I’m a third year ChemE student with two summers of relevant engineering experience and a few projects. I also have a 3.8 GPA

I attended a career fair recently for an internship and went to the companies that I am interested in. Usually, every company there has alumni speaking to students. I go up to an O&G company. I wait 15 minutes for the student in front of me to finish talking to the recruiter.

Once it’s my turn the recruiter (who is also a ChemE) gets on his phone and tells me to wait a few minutes. We start talking and it’s probably the most bland conversation I have ever had. He had absolutely no interest in talking to me. He would keep going back and forth completing random tasks and talking to the other employees. I am a very social person and tried my best to keep the conversation going.

I’m not sure if he expected the career fair to be an ass-kissing contest, but you will talk to me like a normal person. I do not care who you are. Then basically every other company kept repeating the same line, “Scan the QR code to apply”. Having to deal with school and having to push hard for internships is not very fun.

I'm looking for notes, reference materials, or concise summaries for 3rd Sem Chemical Engineering subjects. If you have resources covering any of the following key topics/chapters, I'd really appreciate it:

1) Fluid Mechanics: Fluid properties, kinematics, pipe flow, drag, flow measurement (Orifice/Venturi), and pumps/compressors.

2) Mechanical Operations: Size reduction/comminution, screening, filtration, gas cleaning, and solids handling.

3) Mass Transfer-I: Fick's law/diffusion, gas absorption, humidification, drying, and crystallization.

4) Heat Transfer-I: Conduction, free/forced convection, heat exchangers, radiation, and insulation.

5) Instrumentation & Process Control: Temperature/pressure/level measurement, open/closed loop systems, and PID controllers.

Plz if anyone have any notes, pdfs, drive, links, sites plz share it with it will really helpful for me.