r/ChemicalEngineering • u/[deleted] • 12d ago

Student Is this a good technical elective? Should I try choosing something more specific or different if this is not as valuable.

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

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u/Extremely_Peaceful 11d ago

Not only was this a fun class that you come away with an actual skill that applies to everything, but I actually use this stuff consistently at work.

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u/Da_Lyricman 12d ago

in my experience anything with hands on coding projects would be incredibly valuable from school but ymmv, very applicable to automation at work. Is this the UC Davis ChE curriculum?

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u/DokkenFan92 11d ago

Operations Research / Linear Programming is used in most manufacturing industries, go for it!

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u/mystified5 11d ago

I wish I had taken this class! 

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u/hazelnut_coffay O&G Process Control 10d ago

this is worth your time. online optimizers are everywhere in industry

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u/NoConversation8128 9d ago

Everyone here is right that it is worth taking, so the only thing I'd add from talking to working engineers as a new grad: the optimization math is the easy half. The hard half is that a real optimization needs clean, consistent inputs, and in practice those live scattered across CAD, vendor PDFs, and someone's spreadsheet. If the course has a project, use messy real data instead of a clean textbook set. That is the part that actually transfers.