What is the employment outlook for chemical engineering and technology majors?

Chemical engineering and technology professional employment prospects, graduates can be in the chemical industry, oil refining, metallurgy, energy, light industry, medicine, environmental protection and military industry and other departments engaged in engineering design, technology development, production technology management and scientific research and so on.

The chemical industry is a very creative, challenging and important industrial fields, it has technology-intensive, talent-intensive, capital-intensive characteristics, especially in the twenty-first century, the chemical industry in the direction of "green chemical" development at the same time.

The cross-penetration of knowledge, industrial intermingling put forward wider and deeper requirements, this specialty is to adapt to the development of the chemical industry for the twenty-first century and set up a thick foundation, wide-caliber, adaptable and strong major.

Chemical engineering and technology majors have chemical engineering and technology and analytical chemistry, polymer chemistry and physics, materials physical chemistry and other similar disciplines. Combined with the characteristic advantages of biomass energy, new energy, green chemicals, etc., the discipline has established four disciplinary directions through continuous refinement of the disciplinary directions.

One of them is modern analytical testing and sensing technology, which researches chemical and biological sensors, modern separation and analysis of complex samples and their applications in the fields of chemical industry, non-ferrous metals, environment, metallurgy, food, health, medical testing and so on.

Research Direction

1, chemical separation engineering

Mainly engaged in the new separation technology (membrane separation technology, supercritical fluid technology, microwave extraction technology, ultrasonic extraction, reaction distillation and so on) of the process and equipment, the improvement of traditional chemical separation technology, The coupling of separation technology and other aspects of the research. At present, we have formed a special research direction in the extraction and separation of active ingredients of natural plants, extraction and separation of active ingredients of traditional Chinese medicine, and membrane separation process and equipment.

2, green chemical process

Mainly engaged in green reaction process (clean and efficient new reaction and separation technology, new catalysts, new reactors, etc.), environmentally friendly new molecules and new materials, reaction and separation of integrated technology research and development, the new solvents and auxiliaries, research and development, as well as the start of green chemical process. Research on the nature of raw materials and product properties.

3, new chemical materials

This research direction is a multidisciplinary cross-cutting field, mainly engaged in the research and development of new energy chemical materials and new chemical separation materials. Currently, research has been carried out in the design, preparation, characterization and application of porous inorganic organic and composite phase change energy storage materials, adsorbent materials, purification materials, inorganic powders, nano-composite materials, biomedical materials and so on.