So What Is Chemical Engineering ?!

Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with chemical production and the manufacture of products through chemical processes (Lucas). Which includes designing equipment, systems, and processing. Moreover, they refine raw materials and process them to make valuable products. Chemical Engineering incorporates Mathematics, Chemistry, and Physics. Which are considered hard subjects to take, especially when you start the higher-level courses.

Chemical Engineers apply their skills in science, mathematics, environmental management and economics to make production processes to more efficient (What Chemical Engineers Do). Furthermore, they work in many different industries including oil companies, nuclear science and technology, and as consultants engineers.

Some of the skills that are required for chemical engineers are problem solving skills, ability to approach problems using logic and reasoning, ability to analyze how things work, and accuracy, with an eye for details. There are more important skills that are required for a chemical engineering major, since they will be using them in their daily life.


By: Khalifa Alzaabi



Works Cited:

"What Chemical Engineers Do." Https://www.engineering.unsw.edu. Web. 27 Sept. 2015.

Lucas, Jim. "What Is Chemical Engineering?" LiveScience. TechMedia Network, 03 Oct. 2014. Web. 27 Sept. 2015.

Engineering in sports

By Abdulaziz Khudada

Some people thinks that engineering is boring, but it's not for engineers. Some sports are based on engineering and technology like soccer, cycling, skateboarding and hockey. In fact it can helps the players to reach high scores and make new record.

"Many sports require hand-held equipment, such as bats, hockey and lacrosse sticks, fencing foils and golf clubs. These all involve engineering to be light and strong, to help the athletes' performances."

Engineers help athletes stay safe. Engineers doing all their best to make light weight protection in order to be strong and light. The table shows what the engineers do for the athletes.



Engineers use testing field for the athletes in order to find the weakest point. Improving their skills to find more than way to improve their speed and focus. Using maths and physics to solve sporting problems is how the engineers start; however, by the time engineers use technology and modern equipments for athletes.



Kinetic and Potential energy are the reason that helps the players to develop their skills.

Potential energy is the energy that an object has due to its position in a force field. Kinetic energy is the energy that it possesses due to its motion. [2]

Sports are mixed of physical skills, mathematics, science and technology. Using these stuff its can helps to make new world record.

[1] Connor Lowrey, Abigail Watrous, Janet Yowell. Integrated Teaching and Learning Program, College of Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder.


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[2] Jain, Mahesh C. "Fundamental forces and laws: a brief review". Textbook Of Engineering Physics, Part 1. PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd. p. 10.

Future of an Electrical Engineer

By Boyuan Sun

Speaking about electrical engineering, the major of my first decision, firstly I want to give you a brief introduction about what is this major about, what we do and how we do it. “Electrical engineering (EE) ranges from the generation and delivery of electrical power to the use of electricity in integrated circuits.”[1] In another word, it is a study and application of hardware, some mathematics and science in integrated circuit devices by computer simulations.

For instance, we make innovations in the automotive manufacture, decide our next step on communication revolution, advance the technology all around us. This may sounds exciting to you but they are not easy to achieve.

According to the Collegiate Employment Research Institute at Michigan University who took the survey from 1994 to mid-2001 and the most recent survey from 2012 to 2013, it shows a the hiring trends slowly recovered each year from the contract of hiring since 2004. The market is still tight but there are opportunities for new college graduates who devote efforts to find them.Also the it should be noted that the starting salary and employment opportunities have traditionally surpassed those of most other majors on collage campuses.[2]

The median salary of an electrical engineering is 89,630 USD per year. It sounds quite awesome. However, to make it happen it requires a long career path from an engineer all the way up to a technical director or a fellow.


[1] Stephan, Bowman, Park, Sill, Ohland, Thinking Like an Engineer: an Active Learning Approach, MSU, MI, 2013, Print.

[2]William C. Oakes, Les L. Leone, Engineering Your Future: A Brief Introduction to Engineering, 5th Ed, Oxford, NY, 2015, Print.

Prompt #2 Codes Of Ethics

By: Khalifa ALHammadi


Ethics are involved in everything; people in their daily life face situations that can be done in a wrong or right way. For instance, a college student walking to the class can wait for the red signal when there are no cars in the road and or just cross the road knowing that it is wrong. This is one of the situations that occurs to the student at the beginning at the day, imagine how many decisions do people take in their daily life without even thinking about it and relating it to ethics.



Most of engineering societies such as AIChe, IEEE and NSPE developed codes of Ethics for their members. According to the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChe) Engineers must “use their knowledge and skill for the enhancement of human welfare.” (AIChe). To achieve this goal members or engineers must “accept responsibility for their actions, seek and heed critical review of their work and offer objective criticism of the work of others.” (AIChe). All Chemical engineers know these codes because if they do not disasters may happen because they work with huge amounts of hazardous materials compared to others. All people know that professionals who work in this field are strict in following rules and the ethical guidelines because they understand the risk of this job. For me, I understand the responsibility that I will have when considering a job in Oil Company. I am going to follow all the rules and consider all the codes of ethics.



Works Cited:
AIChe, "Code of Ethics." http://www.aiche.org/about/code-ethics, Web. 26 Sept. 2015.

Electrical Engineering

By Abdulaziz Khudada


Electrical Engineering is about electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism in one field of study. This field is important for all countries around the world because its control Communication and Signal Processing, Computer and Digital Systems, and Networking. "Electricity is fundamentally charges, both positive and negative." [1]

There are three different majors in electrical engineering: electronics engineering, electrical engineering technology, and electrical and electronic engineering.



Choosing a field like Electrical Engineering is the greatest way to study a lot of things in one field, for example, calculations, computer programming, Nanotechnology, and electricity. Using a lot of technique in one place is helpful in order to solve problems in system using different way. “Power engineering deals with the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity as well as the design of a range of related devices.” [2]

Electrical engineering students fairly easy find their first job. Many companies around the world are looking for Electrical Engineering major. Electrical Engineering ranked as top ten majors in some countries. Based on my researches the best engineering major is Electrical engineering. I went to big companies like “Kuwait National Petroleum Company” in Kuwait, “Mott MacDonald” in UAE. Both companies are the top five in middle east and they need Electrical Engineering employees.


[1] Ashby, Darren. Electrical Engineering 101: Everything You Should Have Learned in School but Probably Didn't. Boston, MA: Newnes, 2012. Internet resource.
[2] Grigsby, Leonard L. (16 May 2012). Electric Power Generation, Transmission, and Distribution, Third Edition. CRC Press.
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Begin with Engineering

By Boyuan Sun

“The profession in which knowledge of mathematical and natural sciences, gained by study, experience, and practice, is applied with judgment to develop ways to use, economically, the materials and forces of nature for the benefit of mankind.”

——ABET, The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology

I would love to start the topic about engineering with this short clear definition of engineering by ABET, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. As described in this definition, engineering is not something difficult, something that is far beyond your knowledge. You don’t need to be the guy who made it to moon whose distance from Earth is out of our imagination. You don’t have to build the robot which must be remote controlled from 140 million miles away. You don’t have to do those extremely difficult tasks because they will finally come to you naturally. What you need to do is to start with your very first science class and your very first math problem which we are already had in early our life.

From the data of Engineering Wrokforce Commission of the American Association of Engineering Societies, provided numbers of students in several broad engineering field, we find out that there is an increasing of number of engineering students since 2006. This suggests that there is a increasing demand in the market of engineering as the market keeps a stable percentage of the employment status. As for me, I treated it as a chance for me because I believe that more opportunities always come with even more challenges.

Come down to my major, Electrical Engineering, it is one of the most populated of the engineering disciplines which includes eight major areas: [1]
Computer
Communication
Circuits
Digital controls
Instrumentation
Signal processing
Bioengineering
Power

Those areas are widely separated considering the wide range of electronic devices we use very day. As you can see, there are so many possibilities in electrical engineering major and I can’t wait to find out which one belongs to me.


[1] William C. Oakes, Les L. Leone, Engineering Your Future: A Brief Introduction to Engineering, 5th Ed, Oxford, NY, 2015, Print.

Prompt #1: Asking Questions and Breaking Assumptions

By: Khalifa Alzaabi


Before choosing a field for your future people may ask, what will the job be like? , What do other people do and say? , and did they like it or not. Different people make different assumption about their future career job. However, people never know how their job will end like. So instead of making assumption they can actually start by asking questions to people who were working in that field, or by surfing the internet and looking for some answers.

In the beginning I thought that chemical engineers are those people who are most of the time shut in their home and study or work all day, In fact, I was totally wrong. There may be people that are shut in but most of the people that I met were normal people. In addition, they were all happy about their jobs and they said that I made the right decision to choose Chemical Engineering.



Chemical Plant

So what is chemical engineering? Like all engineers, chemical engineers use math, physics, and
economics to solve technical problems. The difference between chemical engineers and other types of engineers is that they apply knowledge of chemistry in addition to other engineering disciplines (Helmenstine). According to Anne’s article chemical engineers can work in a lot of places like Oil and natural gas industry, nuclear plants, and as pharmaceuticals etc. I also found out that the chemical engineers make designs and invent new processes, and some invent new instruments and facilities. Dr. Helmenstine wrote a lot of helpful articles about chemical engineering and what is it all about.



Works Cited:
Helmenstine, Anne Marie, Dr. "What Is Chemical Engineering?" Http://chemistry.about.com. Web. 20 Sept. 2015.

Chemical Engineers are NOT Chemists!

By Khalifa ALHammadi





Most people think that chemical engineers and chemists study the same courses and have similar career. Both have things in common but the differences are more! Actually, the public understands what chemists do because most people studied chemistry in school but they lack what chemical
engineers do. The study of Chemistry is much older than Chemical engineering. "The study of chemistry as a science began in the 1600s, with chemists like Robert Boyle working towards the formulation of Boyle's Law. Chemical engineering emerged in its




own right the late 1800s with George E Davis coining the term ‘Chemical engineering’."(Maitland). In addition, there are more chemists than chemical engineers but, fortunately, the number of students majoring chemical engineering is increasing year by year. Chemists mainly focus on analyzing and testing substance and measuring properties of materials. On the other hand, Chemical engineers focus on turning the substances tested by chemists into useful materials. Chemists try to develop new compounds and Chemical engineers work with existing materials. As known, chemists work in laboratories and sometimes in offices, while, chemical engineers tend to work in fields.




Works Cited:

Maitland, Geoff. "Ten Differences between Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (Day 66)." Institution of Chemical Engineers. N.p., 31 July 2014. Web. 19 Sept. 2015.