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/Frosty_Cloud_2888 Jul 06 '25

It all depends where you work. Some companies use MATLAB and some Python for R&D. If you learn programming you should be able to switch from on to another with a little bit of effort. There are plenty of guides or solving numerical analysis for both MATLAB or Python and even Excel. ChatGPT or any other major large language model can help you with figure where you went wrong with coding if you are new to a language.