“Chemical engineering is a branch of engineering that applies physical sciences (e.g. chemistry and physics) and life sciences (e.g. biology, microbiology and biochemistry) together with mathematics and economics to produce, transform, transport, and properly use chemicals, materials and energy (Cohen, 1996).” The field of chemical engineering is very diverse, covering areas from biotechnology to mineral processing. It would take too long to list all the products that are impacted by chemical engineers, but knowing what industries employ them may help to comprehend the scope of their work.
Chemical engineers work in manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, design and construction, pulp and paper, petrochemicals, food processing, specialty …show more content…
The reader of this article is likely an expert with high knowledge, experience, and training in either chemical engineering or chemistry. Based on the terminology used by the authors, the targeted audience of this text is expected to have received at least a master’s degree in either of these two majors. It was not easy for me to argue that the audience of this article is experts, but I concluded that it was for two reasons. First, although I am a student in chemical engineering t, about thirty percent of the article is material that I have not seen yet on any of the courses I have taken so far. Second, Water Research magazine is targeted to a professional audience who has been working in their field for more than five years, because simply any student of chemical engineering could not easily understand their topics. For example, the following piece was taken from the abstract of the article and was used mainly to determine the purpose and the audience of the article. “In this work the photodegradation mechanism and pathways of sunscreen agent 2-phenylbenzimidazole-5-sulfonic acid (PBSA) were investigated under artificial solar irradiation with the goal of assessing the potential of photolysis as a transformation mechanism in aquatic environments (Ji et al., 2003).” By using the two words investigated and assessing, it is evident that the authors are going to present some results and evaluate a certain product. The audience of the article was assumed to be experts because of the word choice, which is shown in the above piece. Also, the way the information is presented by not using definitions to explain certain words such as photodegredation tell us that this is not a general
Chemical engineers work in manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, design and construction, pulp and paper, petrochemicals, food processing, specialty …show more content…
The reader of this article is likely an expert with high knowledge, experience, and training in either chemical engineering or chemistry. Based on the terminology used by the authors, the targeted audience of this text is expected to have received at least a master’s degree in either of these two majors. It was not easy for me to argue that the audience of this article is experts, but I concluded that it was for two reasons. First, although I am a student in chemical engineering t, about thirty percent of the article is material that I have not seen yet on any of the courses I have taken so far. Second, Water Research magazine is targeted to a professional audience who has been working in their field for more than five years, because simply any student of chemical engineering could not easily understand their topics. For example, the following piece was taken from the abstract of the article and was used mainly to determine the purpose and the audience of the article. “In this work the photodegradation mechanism and pathways of sunscreen agent 2-phenylbenzimidazole-5-sulfonic acid (PBSA) were investigated under artificial solar irradiation with the goal of assessing the potential of photolysis as a transformation mechanism in aquatic environments (Ji et al., 2003).” By using the two words investigated and assessing, it is evident that the authors are going to present some results and evaluate a certain product. The audience of the article was assumed to be experts because of the word choice, which is shown in the above piece. Also, the way the information is presented by not using definitions to explain certain words such as photodegredation tell us that this is not a general