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[ed.nathan]

Hi everyone,
I am a fresh college graduate from one of the Nigerian Universities, I studied chemical engineering at undergraduate level and due to the non availability of jobs, I would love to go back to school in order to advance my studies. But I would need your help on the various field of specializations. My best courses were transport phenomena, process design, and other courses that required alot of calculations. I had excellent grades in numerical analysis and other mathematics related courses as well. This does not mean I was poor in the other courses but I am a natural with mathematical calculations.
Please can someone advice me on which area of specialization could best suit me and will pay off in the later run. I had aspired to obtain relevant on the job experience before going for a masters programme but its not working out my way.

Thanks,
Edmond

[rbugiada]

Why is there a non-availability of jobs?  You may have to relocate to where the jobs are.  Chemical engineering is one of the more-lucrative professions.

 

Anyway, if you're going to graduate school, and you like heavily-mathematical courses, I recommend Combustion and Compressible Fluid Flow.  I took a graduate-level combustion course as an elective in my school's Mechanical Engineering department.  The reactions aren't simply combining fuels with oxygen.  The thermodynamics is reversible, the reaction kinetics are for free radicals, properties are calculated using statistical mechanics, the transport equations are in vector/tensor notation, and, oh yes, the partial differential equations need to be solved.

 

I've found that most chemical engineers are poorly trained in compressible fluid flow.  Grad school is a good place to make up for this deficiency.

 

Good luck!

[Bobby Strain]

If you plan on staying in Nigeria, you might consider a Masters in petroleum engineering. Or an MBA. Getting a Masters degree in Chemical engineering won't open any doors for you. You might even consider an advanced degree in Computer Science.

 

Bobby