r/ChemicalEngineering • u/fatimalizade • Jul 05 '25

Software Software recommendations

Hi everyone, I’m currently doing my master’s degree in Chemical and Energy Engineering, but my bachelor was in Chemistry, so I didn’t pick up any programming skills in my previous studies, but actually I’ve done some MATLAB courses and learned basics.

Yesterday I had a conversation with one of my group mates and she mentioned that you can’t get a research or software-based job with MATLAB, it’s useless and you have to learn Python instead.

So I’m wondering is it still worth spending time on MATLAB?

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u/allstar910 Jul 05 '25

I'm personally partial to Python, and my company uses jmp for data analysis, which I've found to be sufficient for all the projects I've done with process qualification, validation, etc.

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u/fatimalizade Jul 06 '25

Thanks for answering:) How long did it take you to learn Pyhton or JMP?