Chemical engineering graduates can find work in several industries, including electronics, photography, clothing, pulp and paper, health care, biotechnology, and business. However, most chemical engineers work in the manufacturing industry, where they often work with chemicals, electronics, petroleum, and paper. Others can work in collaboration with architects and civil engineers to design chemical plants. Those with business or management backgrounds can also run these plants.
Another field that chemical engineers are working in is for private chemical companies, where they design and develop new processes to form new usable forms of chemicals for a variety of uses. Chemical engineers can also work in the pharmaceutical industry, where they can work in collaboration with chemists to streamline processes for commercial drug production. Chemical engineers can also work in academia, teaching chemical engineering at the university level, while at the same time doing research into the field of their choice. This is usually in collaboration with manufacturing companies, the oil and gas industry, hospitals, or other government organizations.
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