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/skunk_jh Jul 06 '25

Matlab is what chemical engineers normally use, specially for academics, but I would definitely go and choose Python over Matlab since there are new libraries that are there ready to be used and it’s not too difficult to learn. But if you feel more adventurous you can go and pick Clojure, for me it just clicked.

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u/skunk_jh Jul 06 '25

You can check more about Clojure for Scientists by looking for SciCloj in google.

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u/fatimalizade Jul 06 '25

Thank you!!