Thought this was a funny story and couldn’t think of a better place to share. So a couple weeks ago we were doing some burner management tuning at my plant and naturally we have the whole system isolated and bled out. Aside from that our safety procedures dictate any work around potentially hazardous atmospheres we have to have an air quality monitor on our person calibrated to the hazard. So I go down to the work area to fill out the pre work inspection and one of the technicians has his monitor clipped to his belt on the back. I’m about half way through the safety checklist when said technician lets out the meatiest fart I’ve heard in a while and the monitor just starts going wild. I don’t think I could stop laughing for 20 minutes, and it seemed a shame not to share

Hey fellow chemical engineers,

Halloween is around the corner, and I’m looking to get creative this year with a costume that has something related to chemical engineering. Any fun or clever ideas on how to represent something from our field?

Bit of a different post. I just got done watching Chernobyl and have previously watched Erin brokovich and deepwater horizon. I like these movies a lot, kind of a process safety case study in movie form.

Do you recommend anything similar?

Because it's adiabatic.

So I hope everyone is familiar with borgs, but I’ve been invited to an end of semester party with my classmates and I need a good name for my borg. I want it to be Chem-E or sciency related so please give me ideas!

What I am going to do with the "10 or so hours a week" I will have available, now that I am done with my ChE undergrad curriculum.

Right order of magnitude, so I guess it's a good approximation...

Here is some internet comedy for ya.

I was preparing for an interview tomorrow and I thought I would use the internet to help me think about questions they could ask. The first link that comes up is from Indeed and in my opinion these are awful questions/answers and they are so awful I find them hilarious.

The first question is:

Q:

Describe the difference between unit operations and unit processes.

A:

The aim of this question is to understand an individual's knowledge of the industry. Here's what to look for in an answer:

• Chemical engineering principles
• Ability to explain concepts and processes
• Examples of how these processes work

Example:

 "Unit operation involves changes that occur in processes such as evaporation or distillation. Unit processes involve chemical reactions like a need for oxidization or compound reduction."

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In my opinion, these are laughably awful and for me, they feel like they were definitely AI-generated. Some questions are not that bad but then the answers to these questions are just a word sandwich that does not make a lot of sense.

Here is the link: https://ca.indeed.com/hire/interview-questions/chemical-engineer?gclid=Cj0KCQjwj5mpBhDJARIsAOVjBdp-2Ob7ViFH-0eai2kcgfoV-A9gzY2AFNylfzubH5Pj82xF93HPJFkaAvaXEALw_wcB&aceid=&gclsrc=aw.ds

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