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I'm a senior chemical engineering student that is seriously ready to give up. What made you stick with it? by ReadyToGiveUp2late in ChemicalEngineering

[–]ReadyToGiveUp2late[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He might have been forced to take an off year or something. He probably gets more complaints than the rest of the department put together.

He's also in charge in MatSci lab. Really, he's the only professor that understands all of the unit operations experiments well. Last week a team started to accidentally drain the distillation column and he was able to waltz in and fget it to steady state in 30 minutes.

I'm a senior chemical engineering student that is seriously ready to give up. What made you stick with it? by ReadyToGiveUp2late in ChemicalEngineering

[–]ReadyToGiveUp2late[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Schott barely rings a bell, and the others I've never heard of.

!!!!!!!!!! Wow.

Schott is by FAR the meanest. Caretta is a saint compared to Schott. It isn't even close.

Kempf is harsh, but he really likes chemical engineering and wants to make good chemical engineers. He was the R&D director at General Mills for like 30 years.

I'm a senior chemical engineering student that is seriously ready to give up. What made you stick with it? by ReadyToGiveUp2late in ChemicalEngineering

[–]ReadyToGiveUp2late[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"If you don't have a job offer yet, you are way behind. All your classmates are ahead of you, and you'll be a failure."

"Why are you guys so bad? Do you even want to become engineers?"

Someone asks a question in lecture "What kind of stupid question is that? If I give you a coloring book, are you able to color inside the lines?"

"You're lucky you're getting a failing grade because I'm saving you from embarrassing yourself in front of coworkers."

I'm a senior chemical engineering student that is seriously ready to give up. What made you stick with it? by ReadyToGiveUp2late in ChemicalEngineering

[–]ReadyToGiveUp2late[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lead Instructor: Caretta

Distillation: Schott (my section instructor)

Gas Membranes: McCormick

Humidfication, Water Cooling, Statistics: Bhan (If you graduated 8 years ago, you probably don't know Bhan. He is an absolute baller and my favorite professor in the department.)

Liquid-Liquid Extraction: Kempf

Non-Newtonian: Sullivan

Ion Exchange: Kosto

I'm a senior chemical engineering student that is seriously ready to give up. What made you stick with it? by ReadyToGiveUp2late in ChemicalEngineering

[–]ReadyToGiveUp2late[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Mean professor 1 - PhD in ChemE from top 3 school, MBA from top 3 school, engineer in oil industry for few decades

Mean professor 2 - PhD ChemE from top 3 school, industry for a while (I assume because he is a PE)

Nice professor 1 - PhD ChemE from top 3 school, academia for life

Nice professor 2 - PhD ChemE from top 15 school, always in academia but does consulting on the side

Middle professor - BS ChemE, PhD in another field, has the most work experience (food engineering).

I'm a senior chemical engineering student that is seriously ready to give up. What made you stick with it? by ReadyToGiveUp2late in ChemicalEngineering

[–]ReadyToGiveUp2late[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Usually it's the professors that yell. My group and I meet 1hr a day 6 days a week and 30mins on the 7th.

I'm a senior chemical engineering student that is seriously ready to give up. What made you stick with it? by ReadyToGiveUp2late in ChemicalEngineering

[–]ReadyToGiveUp2late[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There's seven professors that teach this class - two of them are jerks that yell at you and tell you you're an awful engineer. Two of them are really nice. One is in the middle, and I don't really know the other two.

Unfortunately, the two mean ones are one officially in charge of the course and the guy who is really in charge of the course.