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/peanutally Jul 07 '25

Python will make you stand out! A lot of the older engineers where I work don’t know Python and it’s really easy to whip something up real quick that can impress them. Excel VBA is also very useful. We don’t use MATLAB at my workplace.

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u/fatimalizade Jul 09 '25

Thank you!!