Everyone, tell us which of the courses you studied in university are most useful in your work? ? ?

I’m also looking forward to hearing from those who have experience sharing their views

My major is fine chemical engineering, and I am currently working in natural gas chemistry. In work, chemical engineering principles, fundamentals of chemical engineering equipment mechanics, and automation of chemical engineering instruments.

If you put in the effort, most courses are actually useful; there’s no need to say anything about the courses related to chemical engineering. Now that I’m working in the fields of precision manufacturing and polymers, I realize that my knowledge of inorganic and organic chemistry was really poor, and what I learned in university seemed a bit superficial

Chemical engineering principles, physical chemistry, thermodynamics, and reaction engineering are all very useful, after all, mass and heat balance calculations along with the principles of mass transfer, heat transfer, reaction, and diffusion constitute the foundation and core of these fields. Although there is a separate course on mass transfer and it’s taught well, in practical work one usually only reaches the level of understanding unit operations as covered in chemical engineering principles; therefore, mass transfer knowledge isn’t that useful in practice

I’m also a chemical engineering student about to graduate. I always feel that what I learned in university is too theoretical, and I lack confidence; I don’t understand the real purpose of it all

I’m about to graduate as well, and I have nothing to do all day long. The teachers said that topics such as Principles of Chemical Engineering, Physical Chemistry, Chemical Engineering Instruments and Automation, and Chemical Reaction Engineering are quite important. I’ve also read other books, but I feel that the information in them is insufficient and not closely related to actual production practices. Also, in universities, it’s purely an exam-oriented education system; teachers explain the topics related to exams over and over again without fatigue, while those that are not as important for exams are only briefly covered. It wasn’t until we returned from the production site that we realized we hadn’t noticed some of the small tricks used in the factory, aside from the main manufacturing processes as well as the key equipment and pipelines! In short, schools do not pay enough attention to practical skills and students’ ability to identify and solve problems. I miss the undergraduate education system; if students majoring in chemical engineering could have the opportunity to spend a semester or longer in factories, we might not feel so lost when we enter society!

It still depends on the person. The experts in our factory aren’t even from the relevant field; they only have a secondary school education. Haha, I still had to use an F wrench to tighten screws back then. Haha, what a shame

School only lays the foundation for learning on the job; as the saying goes, \"If you stop learning for three days, you’ll fall behind\" – and there’s truth to that. You need to keep learning at work in order to grow and improve. I’ve seen people who just muddled through their tasks, and usually those people don’t end up doing very well. The attitude you have toward learning at school – attitude determines everything. What is called experience actually consists, in part, of past experiences; no one starts out as being somewhere between excellent and poor at what they do. I’m not sure if my way of putting it sounds like giving up.