Prompt #10: Recognizing Truth

By: Khalifa Alzaabi

There are many misconceptions about chemical engineering, people are trying to understand a whole major that requires 4 years to study by just reading its name. which is why they get most of the ideas wrong. In fact, some of them even try to convince other people with their inaccurate results by writing articles in the internet. For example, most people think that chemical engineers are chemists and they deal with chemicals only. As discussed in our previous posts, chemical engineers are not chemists. however, people are still thinking that way because of the name it self.

During my research about chemical engineering I found out a couple of interesting articles that relates to chemical engineering in a wrong way. It says that chemical engineering is just a mechanical engineering plus chemistry, which is totally wrong. In fact, there are some courses that chemical and mechanical students should take, but mechanical engineers can never do the work of chemical engineers and vice versa.

I saw some forums that discussed both chemical engineering and mechanical engineering. There were some comments that shows that some people really don’t know what really is chemical engineering. For instance, someone wrote “Chemical Engineering = applying Chemistry to Mechanical Engr, its just an offshoot/branch of Mech ENgr... Its like trying to compare a fruit with the main tree>>>NEXT plsss”. This clearly shows that he is just giving his opinion about this matter and he doesn’t care about what people will think when reading this comment


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