Not everyone can have a great GPA, especially in Chemical Engineering. If you find yourself watching your GPA plummet, and get to your junior year with near or below the crucial 3.0/4.0, here is some advice for you! 1) APPLY FOR JOBS, apply for every chemical engineering job you can find. Some companies won’t look [...]
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Its been a long two years. I have accumulated debt in the form of student loans, seen my stellar GPA plumit, and witnessed the job market shrink. When I was a freshman, I was told that Chemical Engineering was a straight road to success. Everyone had a job offer, and my future seemed easy. Now [...]
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Absolute Error- Error in a number that is a fixed value AE- American Engineering System of Units Conversion of units-change of units from one set to another Derived units- Units deveopled in terms of the fundamental units Dimensional consistency- Each term in an equation must have the same set of net dimesions Dimensionless group- A [...]
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PV=nRT or PV=mRT n = the number of moles. m= mass P=pressure, V = volume, R= Gas constant (varies depending on which units you use), T= temperature in Kelvins. This equation is a very useful way to find out the changes of state in an ideal gas, and can sometimes be used as a close [...]
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