Chemical Engineering Overview - PowerPoint - Podcast

	B.S. - Chemical Engineering, Montana State University
	Process engineer providing technical support to operations.
	"You have to know yourself well enough to be able to determine what's best for you, and you have to know enough about the companies to determine where you'll fit in."

Q: What do you do on a day-to-day basis?
Imhoff: Every day your job is different-that's one of the bonuses of this job. Typically, a technical support to operations is responsible for unit performance monitoring.

Q: What advice would you offer to someone interested in chemical engineering?
Imhoff: You need to ask yourself some questions: Do you want to work with a lot of people or would you rather be in a research lab kind of by yourself? You have to know yourself well enough to be able to determine what's best for you, and you have to know enough about the companies to determine where you'll fit in.

Q: Did your undergraduate education prepare you for your job?
Imhoff: I think that as a student you get a good base, and you get a good theory level. In the real world, you get the experience. Theory is a lot different from reality-it's very difficult to predict what is really going on. In school, they give you an equation and all the constants that you need. In real life, you have to figure out what they are. And with every unit that you work at, it's going to be different.

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