Any biomedical or chemical engineers here?

[suntan]

Anybody willing to have a chat with my daughter about what a biomedical or chemical engineer does? She might have some interest in taking them in university.

[Pacman]

I've got nothing to add to this other than biomedical mechanical engineers are going to be the equivalent software/computer engineers of the late 90's/2000's. It's the future of medicine/healthcare. I used to work in the pharma/biotech industry and they were aggressively hiring biomed engineers to develop nano robotic drug delivery systems. From what I understand, the pharma / med device companies are paying very well and can't get enough talent.

[lasimmon]

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I've got nothing to add to this other than biomedical mechanical engineers are going to be the equivalent software/computer engineers of the late 90's/2000's. It's the future of medicine/healthcare. I used to work in the pharma/biotech industry and they were aggressively hiring biomed engineers to develop nano robotic drug delivery systems. From what I understand, the pharma / med device companies are paying very well and can't get enough talent.

They have been saying that for almost 2 decades. Yet to really see it though.

[riander5]

Show her what HYSYS is. Thats a chemical engineer

[ExtraSlow]

Grosssssssssssssss.

[ThePenIsMightier]

These are radically different disciplines.
The Chemical "Process" engineers I work with are either gifted and have Asperger's, or couldn't figure out how to pump water down a hill (and still have Asperger's). The ones with the best understanding of schedule can tell the difference between 3 hours and 3 weeks, but not accurately. The rest can not tell the difference. Not joking.

It's a highly variable and highly complex technical job for extremely introverted people who want nothing more in life than to be left alone.
If that resonates with her, then it's a pretty good gig. They make lots of money and virtually no one questions them.

[ExtraSlow]

True process engineers absolutely match that description, even the good ones.

Back in the day, chemical engineering was one of the "generic" engineering degrees that could lead you into the fun side of the oilpatch. I feel like that's less true these days.

[bjstare]

There’s a fun side of the oil patch? That must be the one where you get a Time Machine to go back to the 90s, drill a couple wells yourself, fire up a small company and make millions.

[killramos]

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There’s a fun side of the oil patch? That must be the one where you get a Time Machine to go back to the 90s, drill a couple wells yourself, fire up a small company and make millions.

You can still do that, but millennials have no balls

[ExtraSlow]

High natural gas prices were fun. Oil is lame.

[mr2mike]

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You can still do that, but millennials have no balls

[killramos]

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High natural gas prices were fun. Oil is lame.

And makes a big mess when you dump it off the side of a lease

[mr2mike]

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And makes a big mess when you dump it off the side of a lease

[killramos]

Don’t even get me started on pumping a gas frac above the base of groundwater protection.

[Darkane]

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Show her what HYSYS is. Thats a chemical engineer

Hahah.

[suntan]

Guys in the office next to us sold their company for $45 million. Castleridge energy.

[jwslam]

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There’s a fun side of the oil patch?

I heard this summer at a company there was a female student who put on her coveralls, with the company logo, and showed her ( o)( o) on her OF.
Did not get to see said photo to verify.

[killramos]

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I heard this summer at a company there was a female student who put on her coveralls, with the company logo, and showed her ( o)( o) on her OF.
Did not get to see said photo to verify.

Drayton Valley gon Drayton Valley...

[riander5]

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Guys in the office next to us sold their company for $45 million. Castleridge energy.

How much of that $45 million do they get is the question

[schurchill39]

My degree is in chemical engineering and have done a few of these outreach programs with highschool kids both here and back in Saskatchewan. Most often times they want to know about job security, the different potential avenues they can go down with their degree and what I liked about university. I still have a ton of friends I graduated with in all sorts of different industries including one who designs and makes plates they put in peoples skulls after brain surgery. Feel free to PM me if you're still looking

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True process engineers absolutely match that description, even the good ones.

Back in the day, chemical engineering was one of the "generic" engineering degrees that could lead you into the fun side of the oilpatch. I feel like that's less true these days.

I still think it is one of those generic ones. They definitely push a ton of process engineering throughout the course (or did when I went) but there is a huge variety of electives that can steer where you take your degree in the real world much like mech. Lots of people definitely end up in process but from what I have seen another big one is asset integrity engineering or corrosion engineering. Other friends work in the water treatment industry, or even technical sales. I ended up on what probably was once the fun side of the oil patch and it still has its glimmers here and there, especially for fatties like me and free lunches.