Chemical Engineering involves the application of physical sciences like Chemistry and Physics with mathematics, to change raw materials or chemicals into more valuable forms. This branch of engineering is mostly about turning raw materials into beneficial, everyday products. Chemical Engineering forms the basis for the clothes we wear, the food we eat and the energy we use. Chemical Engineers work out efficient means to manufacture all these products, at the same time helping to manage the world's resources, protect the environment while ensuring to maintain health and safety standards.

Many jobs in the sector fall into one of these groups - the design, manufacture, and operation of plants and machinery, or the development of new or adapted substances and materials. Chemical Engineers are sought by industrial enterprises, governmental agencies, and academic institutions. The remuneration offered to even inexperienced engineers has steadily ranked among the best offered to other engineering graduates.

The job requirements of a Chemical Engineer is to:

• Design safety procedures to the workers operating tools or those who work closely with continuing chemical reactions.
• Outline effective planning of operations, such as mixing, crushing, heat transfer, distillation, and drying and other engineering processes.
• Make estimates of production costs and production progress reports for management.
• Direct actions of workers who are involved in construction and other chemical procedures and develop processes and steps in the manufacture of new products.

Abilities needed to become a Chemical Engineer:

• Basic knowledge of computers
• Analysing data or information effectively
• Skills in processing information
• Abilities in monitoring processes, materials
• Making decisions and solving problems
• Getting information and using it effectively

Career Opportunities:

Chemical Engineering is universal engineering and its basic concepts are used in almost all industries. It covers a very vast field of knowledge and experience to be a good chemical engineer because it is a more theoretical aspect of science.Chemical engineering provides tremendous job and career opportunities to the ones passionate in this field. Chemical Engineers add to the extensiveness of technical activity reaching into nearly every aspect of advanced technology.The likelihood of a chemical engineer to find the job in industries would be of food, materials, specialty chemicals, plastics, power production, environmental control, waste management and biotechnology etc.Work experience is available vastly in the pharmaceutical, petrochemical industries for a fresh Chemical Engineering Graduate, who is undecided about the area of Chemical Engineering they want to work into, to get a clue of what is available.