Chemical Engineer By Trevor
Introduction I picked this topic because I would quite like to be a chemical engineer when I’m older. I was reading about it the other day and it said that you must have excellent maths and science skills. I’m not sure if I do have excellent skills but I’m pretty sure I have good maths and science skills. I enjoy both of these subjects as well, so it sounded like it was the job for me. So, enjoy the presentation!
Job Description There are two types of chemical engineers, a research engineer, where you test new ways to improve products in a lab, and the manufacturing chemical engineer where you have to actually go out and build/design new machinery and other equipment with other chemical engineers.
Requirements First, to get a chemical engineering degree, you will need at least five GCSEs and two A levels, one which is Maths and the other is a science (that’s the England requirements at least). For Scotland, the requirements are 4 Bs including Maths and Chemistry, in the SQA’s that is. They would usually quite like you to get at least a National 4 for every other subject you do.
Types of maths involved The maths skills that you will need in this job is algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus I and II, linear algebra, differential equations and statistics. The manufacturing chemical engineers don’t use maths much, but the researching chemical engineers do.
Conclusion In conclusion, I didn’t realise that maths was that important in the real world, not that I didn’t know it was important. I also learnt a lot more about chemical engineering as well. After all, I found out that the job is the type of job that I like. Hope you enjoyed!
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