Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Branches of Chemical Engineering

Another well known career in math is engineering. Engineering is a profession where engineers create or design things for their boss or contractor. What you design depends on what you want to or what you are good at. There are multiple types of engineering such as electrical, civil, mechanical, or chemical engineering. There are also different branches off of these four branches. An example of a chemical engineer is a processing engineer who makes processes more efficient. They calculate how many chemicals to put into a mixture to maximize the amount of the chemical that they want to get. They also calculate how many chemicals go into things like our water. If they put to much fluorine or chlorine into our water it could be harmful to us. Also, if they put to little chemicals into the water it could be harmful. Another example of a chemical engineer is a molecular engineer. Molecular engineering uses science to design molecules to help out humans. It is an important part in pharmaceutical research, which designs medicines to help sick people out. Another branch is bio-molecular engineering which is much like molecular engineering. In bio-molecular engineering, the engineers create and manipulate carbohydrates, proteins, nucleic acids, and other natural compounds.

Friday, March 8, 2013

Career One Mathematics teacher/professor

The first and most obvious career that a math loving person can go into is being a teacher or professor. With the different levels of education that can be taught, you can teach and mold children of the age that you want to. You can teach young children in elementary school, teenagers in high school, or young adults in college. There are also multiple subjects of math that can be taught. Algebra, which is the simplest form of math that includes addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, is just one of the subjects. Another is Trigonometry, which is a smaller branch of math that has to deal with the study of triangles and the relationship of its sides to its angles. There is also Pre-Calculus which uses algebra more complexly. Then there is Calculus which has two primary concepts: 1. is how to find the tangent of one singular point and 2. how to find the area under a curve.
Since there are different levels of teaching there are different hours available to teach. At universities classes usual run for an hour or two, two to three days a week while in high school and elementary levels, teachers teach for around eight hours for five days a week.