Top 10 reasons to consider a career in PSE


  1. You've always wanted to get into modelling....
  2. or design
  3. You get to spend all your time in front of a computer (and surf, mail, chat etc.)
  4. You find yourself banned from the 'real' laboratories which have potentially dangerous equipment like burners, furnaces etc on account of what you nearly did or didnt do last semester.
  5. You've never understood mass transfer or worse, thermodynamics.
  6. You get to make statments like- life is nonlinear, but models are linear
  7. When you got stumped at a conference last semester with a difficult question - you actually asked back "In the L_2 sense or L_infinity sense ?"
  8. You feel an unexplainable excitement whenever the speaker introduces a model and an equation.
  9. You have always belived that without chemical engineering, civilization would regress. And it would interest you to know that process systems is the foundation on which chem e is built on
  10. That cute girl/guy whom you saw during new students orientation was planning to work in PSE.
PS: Some of the above are blatantly untrue, some true and some are partially true. If you have figured the truth values (fuzzy of course)of the above statements, congratulations, you have a promising career in PSE ahead of you.