Will Chemical Engineering be a real job in 4 years with automation and machine learning
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Will Chemical Engineering be a real job in 4 years with automation and machine learning
One comment = one bad day for Mike Rossi
Frosh ChemE wrote:
Will Chemical Engineering be a real job in 4 years with automation and machine learning
One comment = one bad day for Mike Rossi
No. Everything will be ruined by automation. You will need to take up a career as a fluffer.
No you will be in charge of setting up the automation.
Why would automation and machine learning affect chemical engineerung careers?
ChemE is a decent job path. Those jobs look pretty stable.
It might get boring depending on you and where you end up.
I get people with ChemE degrees coming back to to grad studies in Chem...
In general I think you're 50 years away from beginning to need to worry about job loss in chemical engineering (or process / industrial / environmental / mechanical engineering) due to automation. I lump all those fields of engineering together b/c, unless you have a specific focus or goal job, there is a lot of overlap . In my line of work (process engineer a with a chemical engineering degree) I can think of many many jobs that are currently not replaceable by automation.
I am a chemical engineer, 4.5 years out of school. Yes it will. Firstly, it is an immensely broad field - not every just designs old school chemical plants. You have alternative energy, bio/pharma, materials science, petroleum (boo), other chemicals, etc etc etc. A lot of these products live in regulated environments and that stuff by definition does not change quickly. Sure, things are definitely more automated now and that is the direction things are rapidly moving towards ... but a) automated systems still need someone to design it, think through it, set it up, etc and b) automated systems are great for bitchwork, so the more automation there is, the less mindless crap you will have to do. I have seen this change in my job over the past couple years.
The main thing is to get through your program at school - it will be really hard! Depending on where you're in school, "the real world" will likely be easier than your chemE coursework.
Best of luck!
chemE wrote:
petroleum (boo),
snowflake alert!!!!
Senator Clay Davis wrote:
Frosh ChemE wrote:
Will Chemical Engineering be a real job in 4 years with automation and machine learning
One comment = one bad day for Mike Rossi
No. Everything will be ruined by automation. You will need to take up a career as a fluffer.
Everything will be ruined by nuclear war. The Koreans will be in our streets and fighting will be house to house. You will need to develop proficiency with small arms get used to getting shelled.
moist wrote:
chemE wrote:
petroleum (boo),
snowflake alert!!!!
Ahhh yes, textbook instigation.
*grabs popcorn - sets treadmill to 7:30
What about biomedical engineering and mechanical engineering?
Want to know... wrote:
What about biomedical engineering and mechanical engineering?
Why do you insist on your bourgeois assumptions? You are wrong.
Frosh ChemE wrote:
Will Chemical Engineering be a real job in 4 years with automation and machine learning
One comment = one bad day for Mike Rossi
Yes.
Stupid question.
Frosh ChemE wrote:
Will Chemical Engineering be a real job in 4 years with automation and machine learning
One comment = one bad day for Mike Rossi
Asking this question kind of suggests to me you dont understand the possibilites/roles/responsibilities of a chemical engineer. Also you don't understand automation and machine learning past the catchy buzzwords.
Not trying to gatekeep or be rude but this is your career you will work in for a long time, you might want to learn more about it.
Many people with a chemical engineering degree do not work as a chemical engineer. However, by earning a chemical engineering degree you demonstrate the ability to master difficult subject matter, manage time well, and in general be a potentially solid, dependable employee able to take on many tasks and projects. Chemical engineering is likely the most difficult undergraduate major. I'd hire a chemical engineering major over a gender studies or journalism major for just about any job.
Alternatively, you could be an Internet Influencer.
Engineering degrees will not be threatened by automation / machine learning (if anything, their demand will increase). The careers that are threatened are those that are occupied by high school grads, dropouts and liberal arts majors. The need for innovation and for creative solutions to the globe's rapidly changing needs will never go away.
I'm an environmental engineer and use "chemical" engineering concepts quite a bit.
The engineering world is moving towards bigger data and automation. Engineers are way more productive now than they ever have been. No one misses slide rules, analog dosing systems, etc...
The world is computerized now and you need to get used to it. Engineers can harness computer to make their life easier in ways that would be impossible in 2000.
The single best skill an engineer is the ability to adapt to new technologies. If you can learn how to code and incorporate AI and automation in your work. Well....you will have a job for life and can dictate your future.
I don't think this is gonna happen in four years.
I think that with automatization almost everything will be different in a few years. This is really important to acknowledge the fact that only through automatization we will make our lives better. The produces will be cheaper and more qualitative. I also try to implement different automation equipment and even though it costs, I think it is worth it. Recently I started collaborating with a company that provides automation equipment, and they help me a lot to implement their equipment for automating the process inside the firm. By the way, if you want you can check their site by clicking on