I want to study Chemical engineering because it not only involves solving theoretical problems but it also incorporates the challenge of transferring ideas from chemistry and physics into reality. It is very important to to find new, more effective ways and refine old techniques of harnessing the power of chemical reactions as this is essential for lowering the waste and costs and to increase the output in value and quantity.
In Chemistry I enjoy the diversity of topics and their application in real world. I find thermochemistry, its laws and how energy released and transferred in chemical reactions, very interesting. It not only involves bonding chemistry but also the effectiveness of chemical reactions. I designed and conducted an experiment on finding the chemicals that suit a hand warmer the most. This included making a calorimeter and testing the heat transfer of different chemical reactions so that the final product would give just the right amount of heat. This incorporates knowing and applying concepts of thermochemistry and lab skills, which both are essential for chemical engineering. We also studied about organic chemistry and the molecular orbital theory, which involved identifying the paramagnetic properties of
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Calculus needs a logical approach which chemical engineers need as they constantly have to solve problems that they encounter. I like Integration because it applies various concepts of calculus to solve for answer you want. Another example of the application of Calculus is when we only know one point of the instantaneous gradient we can predict the slope at another point with Euler's method. This can help to predict results for an experiment. I especially enjoy to solve problems that include parametric equations because they combine several different aspects of