My Chemical Engineering Degree in 15 Minutes

👨🏽‍💻 Hey guys! I'm Shawn, a chemical engineer in training who has been in the industry since May 2020. In today's video I'll be sharing my entire journey through Chemical Engineering from start to finish. From organic chemistry to reactor design, it's a wild one. Enjoy!

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0:00 General Thoughts
0:42 Year 1
4:27 Year 2
9:00 Co-op Break
9:16 Year 3
12:08 Getting Shafted
13:40 Year 4

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My Chemical Engineering Degree in 15 Minutes

[shannonharper]

‘I hated every other engineering...’ omg I feel u 😂that’s my reason for doing chem eng too

[basilscriblerusclub]

You will feel very nostalgic for PV=nRT by the end of the degree.

[andyiswonderful]

I worked my butt off to get my BS inChE; I had zero social life. I only pulled a few all-nighters, so generally got enough sleep, which I always need.

Statistical mechanics was the hardest course conceptually. Unit Operations Laboratory was the most work. I think all us students agreed that 50% of our time was spent on Unit Operations, and 50% on everything else.

I graduated with a 3.987 gpa, and was ranked 2/361 engineering students. I went on to get a PhD in ChemE (also, lots of work), and then a 30 yr career in R&D. Computers were in their infancy when I was an undergraduate, so we only had access to a clunky mainframe, no PCs. Lots of manual calculations.

[somtochukwuumeh]

bruhhhh I am taking organic chemistry for the second time now and when you said you drew a happy face on the exam that touched my soul

[drandrewsanchez]

8:03 "I Spilled fluids on fluids on fluids" LMAO first of all bro I love the memes. I'm super glad to see other chemical engineers online talking about their curriculum! I'm happy to be connected to ya'll! cheers -Andrew, fellow ChemE

[mikeibra]

I have done my first bachelors degree in biochemistry, and then did second bachelors in chemical engineering with a minor in material engineering. Biochemistry was tough, but Engineering is a whole another ball game. I had to thoroughly understand the concepts and know to use math to solve the problems; it doesnt end there because I was also writing Matlab codes to solve each one of those mathematical models. I had to learn how to function on 3 hours of sleep every night. I remember I used to make two cups of coffee at 8 pm every weekday, 1 cup to keep me up till 2 am and the other to wake me up again at 5 am.

[justabeginner]

I legit got into chemical engineering due to the same reasons as you, I’m half way through my second semester of freshmen year, and I’m legit I’m super stressed about next semester/year since that’s when I start my chemical engineering courses and legit I’m so stressed, so this is really comforting knowing you struggled and yet you made it

[kaidiawara]

I’m a chemical engineer final year student in the uk and yeah it’s tough but it’s rewarding when you get the hang of it

[zandilemadlala]

This is the best video by a chemical engineer... very interesting keep it up 👏

[jerahmeelsangil]

so you wanna study engineering and still have social life every friday? 😂

[joshsmith]

Man I’m so nervous, I’m in my senior year and I rlly don’t know what to do, I’m leaning towards chemical engineering but I really don’t want to spend 24/7 stressing out and doing work

[wawacute]

well, i just took this course, for fun, that fun turn out miserable, but yeah, i still enjoyed my degree life and got best score, . so my advices for juniors out there. Just have the passion to learn and so on.

[tibetarslan]

As a newly graduated chemical engineer, these tough but sweet years will be missed so much :)

[youkaihenge]

My school does a specialization in Chemical Engineering focused on Polymers and Composites its really fun learning a lot about the dynamical systems of fluids in Extruders and other manufacturing processes!

[dchavezam]

I'm currently on 2nd year college taking up Chem Eng and I'm going crazyyy but knowing your story, it feels like students who take ChEm Eng normally experience this kind of hardships lol

Also for me, Physics and Analytucal Chem are the hardest ToT

[nefariousnektarios]

This is my second or maybe third time watching this and each time is better than the last! I'm in my 3rd year of ChemE (got off a 5'sh month Co-Op before this semester) Awesome video Shawn, thanks a million for posting this! I've got 4 courses next semester: ChemE Processes Lab, Multiple Scale Material Science, Reaction Engineering, and Analytical Techniques II (AnTech I was with Excel but AnTech II is pretty much doing that stuff in MATLab) Shoutout to all my fellow ChemE's! :D

[rekal]

I relate so much to organic chemistry and fluid+thermodynamics being the worst... I'm studying biochemical/fermentation engineering and I had to take these together with the chemical engineering students. Me and my classmates didn't take most of the courses related to these so we were missing a lot of basic knowledge, plus the teachers were some of the worst we've had to deal with during college. Thankfully as far as I know they both have been replaced, but these two courses brought out the worst of me mental health wise. I had to retake both courses, along with a lot of my classmates. It also happened during my 3rd semester, it looks like that's a breaking point for most students in these fields? Anyway, I managed to get my bachelor's last summer with a 4.55/5 GPA and I'm doing my master's now while also studying to become a specialised translator. I'm happy I've found this video :)

[kundaimuzvanya]

I also went to chemE cause i hated the other types of engineering, then i fell in love with chemE after i actually realise what it is all abt.

[noelapatalan]

Yes chem eng. here...Legendary PERRY'S HANDBOOK😂😂
...where did you take your review?

[nightangalesweet]

Nicely expressed the experience of learning chemical engineering. One thing I want to correct is heat exchangers are studied under heat transfer and not thermodynamics.