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Resources for Chemical Engineering Majors

General Career Information

Sloan Career Cornerstone Center
SCCC is a comprehensive resource center for those interested in careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. You can easily drill your way to the Chemical Engineering section and learn a lot.

California Occupational Guide
Chemical Engineering, labor market info, job, working conditions, employment outlook.

Occupational Outlook Handbook
Good, basic information about the nature of the work, employment, job outlook, earnings.

What is a Chemical Engineer?
Good overview from the UCR AICHE site.

Information Resources for Chemical Engineering
UCSB Library Subject Page for Chem Engineering. We love UCSB Librarians. This is a great site.

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Internships

AICHE Student Membership
One of the very best places to start your search for national internships.

Monster.com
Sign up for this free service, search internships and type Chemical Engineer in the search box.

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Graduate & Professional Schools

Gradschools.com
Worldwide chemical engineering graduate school directory by location.

Petersons Guide to Graduate Study
Peterson’s Guide offers a comprehensive resource site for researching topics related to graduate & professional schools

List of Academic Programs for Chemical Process Engineering
Academic institutions related to chemical and process engineering located in the United States of America.

Apply4admissions.com
Site devoted to applying to graduate schools.

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Professional Associations

Professional organizations, what can we say? If you don’t belong to at least one of them, you are missing out on the best source of career information. Want to know the culture of your future profession? This is where to find it.

American Institute of Chemical Engineers
AIChE is the world’s leading organization for chemical engineering professionals, with more than 40,000 members from 93 countries.

American Chemical Society
ACS members enjoy access to special content such as access to ACS benefits, career tools, and AAAS's Science Next Wave.

University of Florida
Professional organizations and activities relevant to chemical and process engineering.

American Association for Clinical Chemistry
AACC (American Association for Clinical Chemistry) is an international scientific/medical society of clinical laboratory professionals, physicians, research scientists and other individuals involved with clinical chemistry and other clinical laboratory science-related disciplines.

American Insitute of Chemists
A good, clean portal. Recommended.

Association of Consulting Chemists & Chemical Engineers
A non-profit membership organization serving the chemical consulting needs of prospective clients and its members since 1928.

Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
SHPE is The Source for Quality Hispanic Engineers and Technical Talent.

Society of Women Engineers
SWE is the driving force that establishes engineering as a highly desirable career aspiration for women. SWE empowers women to succeed and advance in those aspirations and be recognized for their life-changing contributions and achievements as engineers and leaders.

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Job Listings

Engineering.net
These are engineering jobs listed by employers seeking qualified engineers. Engineer.net™ lists engineering jobs and resumes for aerospace, chemical, civil, electrical, industrial, manufacturing, mechanical, or software engineering.

Engineering.info
Engineer.info searches through millions of jobs from thousands of websites including Monster, Careerbuilder, Hotjobs, Net-temps, Dice, and Craigslist. Find engineer jobs from all job sites, newspapers, associations, and company career pages at one site. It is free for everyone to use.

ChemistryJobs.com
Site is a little hard to wade through. But some good links to jobs.

Engineering Center
Special job bank for entry level engineers

InterEC.net
Good site! Created by engineers. No frills. Nothing flashing. Just fine job hunting content. Try their discussion forums to learn from professionals in the field.

About.com
This site has a lot of ads and flashing, but has a good overview of chemistry-related careers.

Job-Hunt.org
Lots of ideas for the job-hunting engineer.

Energy Jobs
Global Energy Jobs: The world's largest job posting website for energy and power jobs.

Power Plant Jobs
Search Power Plant jobs by state.

Energy Jobs
The global vital link between Engineers & Power Professionals and the Energy Companies needing to hire them.

EngineeringJobs.net
Search jobs in different disciplines of Engineering.

Oil and Gas Jobs Online.com
OilandGasJobsOnline.com is the central source for companies to post oil and gas jobs, and for oil and gas job seekers to find that perfect job. Employees looking for work in the oil and gas.

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UCSB Resources

UCSB Library Chemical Engineering Subject Homepage
Information resources for chemical engineering: data sheets, research, societies, conferences.

Chemical Engineering Departmental Web Page

Career Resource Room

The California Digital Library
California Digital library, UCSB chemical engineering electronic journals and much more. Type the words “Chemical Engineering” into the search box and see what resources you can get here at UCSB.

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