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Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with the chemical and physical processes used to develop and make many products. Biological engineering, also known as bioengineering, biotechnological engineering, or biomedical engineering, is an interdisciplinary area of engineering, biology, and medicine.

The major profile below includes: a sample of post-graduation plans of recent Chemical and Biological Engineering graduates, a sample of internships from those in the major, and online resources and professional associations offering career information.

• Chemical Engineer - Merck & Co., West Point, PA
• Process Engineer - Marathon Oil Corporation, Houston, TX
• Research Associate - Gilead Life Sciences, Foster City, CA 
• Research Coordinator - Mt. Sinai Hospital Medical Center, New York, NY
• Technical Alliance Engineer - American Institute of Chemical Engineering, New York, NY
• Rotational Engineer - Chevron Oronite Company, Richmond, CA
• Analyst - Goldman Sachs, New York, NY
• Associate Consultant - Boston Consulting Group, New York, NY
• Operations Research Associate - ZS Associates, Philadelphia, PA
• Operations Management Associate - General Mills, Hannibal, MO
• Biochemistry/Molecular Biology - Ph.D. - Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
• Chemical Engineering - Ph.D. - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
• Chemical Engineering - Ph.D. - Imperial College London, UK
• Biomaterials - M.A. - University College Dublin, Ireland
• Medical Engineering - Ph.D. - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
• Materials Science & Engineering - Ph.D. - Stanford University, Stanford, CA
• Medicine - M.D. - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
• Medicine - M.D. - UMDNJ, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ
• Law - J.D. - New York University, New York, NY
   

* These are actual jobs and graduate schools recent graduates accepted.  

• Research Assistant - Laboratory of Structural Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Nove Hrady, Czech Republic
• Summer Intern - Sterile Processing Technology and Engineering, Merck & Co., West Point, PA
• Chemical Engineering Trainee - The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago, Couva, Trinidad and Tobago
• Stuent Trainee/Analyst - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
• Summer Intern - Vorbeck Materials, Jessup, MD
• Intern, Bristol-Myers Squibb, New Brunswick, NJ
• Research Intern (Immunology) - University of Maryland School of Medicine, College Park, MD
• REU Scholar (Biomedical Engineering) - University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
• Intern - International Water Association, The Hague, Netherlands
• Intern Analyst - Accenture, New York, NY

Alumni have VOLUNTEERED to have students contact them for advice and information about majors and careers. The Alumni Careers Network (ACN), with 4,500 volunteers worldwide, is a searchable on-line database of Princeton alumni who are willing and eager for you to contact them so they can provide you with advice and assistance.  Search the database for Chemical Engineering alumni, to learn more about the careers that people from this major sometimes pursue. 

• Bioengineering - Sloan Career Conrnerstone Center  http://www.careercornerstone.org/bioeng/bioeng.htm
• Chemical Engineering - Sloan Career Cornerstone Center
  http://www.careercornerstone.org/chemeng/chemeng.htm
• Chemical Engineering - Career Overview
  http://www.careeroverview.com/chemical-engineering-careers.html
• Careers in Science and Engineering - A Student Planning Guide
  www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/careers/contents.html
• Engineers - Occupational Outlook Handbook
  http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos027.htm
• Chemical Engineering Careers - Vocational Information Center
  http://www.khake.com/page53.html

A professional association is an organization of people who have similar career interests. These membership-based organizations often offer a reduced rate for students that allow access to the many resources they provide. Often professional association websites offer job/internship databases as well as opportunities to find mentors or other contacts. The National Trade and Professional Association Directory in Career Services can provide more ideas.

• American Institute of Chemical Engineers
  http://www.aiche.org
• American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering                                                                       http://www.aimbe.org/
• American Chemical Society
  http://www.acs.org
• American Association for Clinical Chemistry
  http://www.aacc.org
• American Institute of Chemists
  http://www.TheAIC.org
• American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers                                                               http://www.asabe.org/
• Association of Consulting Chemists & Chemical Engineers
  http://www.chemconsult.org
• Biomedical Engineering Society                            http://www.bmes.org/aws/BMES/pt/sp/home_page
• Institute of Biological Engineering                                                                                   http://www.ibe.org/
• National Society of Black Engineers                                                                     http://national.nsbe.org/
• Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
  http://www.shpe.org
• Society of Women Engineers
  http://www.swe.org  

• Princeton Chemical and Biological Engineering Department