hello I'm here with my friend Khaoula who is a process engineer and today we are
chatting about process and chemical engineering whilst we're playing pictionary so if
you are thinking about doing engineering for your career or maybe you're just
interested in process engineering in general then this is a chap you yes our
wonderful friend Sarah she wrote down on a piece of paper what we have to draw
we've both got one so we both got different things so whilst we're having
this chat about process engineering we're going to be playing pictionary and
at the end we have to guess what each other's drawing is so tune in for that
let's go are you ready one two three go oh my gosh I think Sarah gave her an easy
one okay fine what is process engineering? so it's a
very exciting discipline because basically it's one of those that
combines a lot of things among them maths and physics but also chemistry so
it does offer you a good chance of ending up doing a lot of things and you
can change industries throughout your careers it's exciting gives you quite a
lot of flexibility which was what personally one of the things that made
me choose it so it's basically priceless engineering is you can take a material
like or a resource or something by oil or gas or chemicals or something and
then you turn it into something that you useful for people so I personally I'm in
the oil and gas industry so we work in really large projects all small ones
with other disciplines which is an another thing one of the reasons I chose
engineering is that you get to you know communicate with a lot of different
engineering disciplines and we try to get the oil off the ground or from the
CEO whatever we tried to make it basically fit as a specification that is
normally either set by the client or for example government so it's basically
doing magic. doing magic!? You've heard it here
so process engineering is magic! right! so it's easy in theory but involves a lot of
activities, a lot of different things. it's quite dynamic so you end up doing
things like being on site doing calculations attending meetings talking
to the client it's a lot about problem-solving as well because usually
things most of the terms do not work out I'm not supposed to but yeah that's one
of the aspects of it it's all about making it work so it could be like
chocolate right but doing chocolate bars making chocolate bars or Cadbury's
that's the whole process hey Rachel of you watching she works the Cadbury and
that's what she does
she works at keeping everything under control so she does something that is
called process control which is an aspect of process or chemical
engineering yeah we're basically those machines that you can find on plant they
just don't you don't just click on a button and it works you have to monitor
them so that you have the right temperature the right pressure the right
ingredients at the right time the right duration of the process which is why
it's called a process it's definitely different processes that get you to the
phone product okay different parameters and characteristics correct properties
property exactly exactly like this the snap of a chocolate bar that's actually
designed isn't it and thought about quite a lot correct or
not even chocolate for example sweets so you know gummy bears and things like
that you guys ever think about why they're viscous well they're not while
they sour are they not that obviously depends on the ingredients how much you
put in what about other industries so there's food industry there's oil to
energy like renewable energy I guess a biofuels and stuff like that and farmers
you can say it pharmaceutical there is quite massive differences between those
industries for example if you decide to work in the pharmaceutical industry you
work in a completely different environment to the oil and gas you have
to think a lot more about everything being sanitized
yes yeah in a really controlled environment exactly so all the work and
all them measures that you take in your design have to fit where the regulations
don't show much actually to know what oh it's okay I know she's asking me the
questions for you to know about chemical engineers but I'm pretty sure she's just
trying to keep me occupied this is why I that I've I've I've got a tactic going
well surely as an engineer you have to be good at multitasking so really we
should both be able to stand here and draw and actually talk at the same time
and so one of the things I know people think about is what do you need to study
in order to actually go and do engineering process engineering you can
do Chemical Engineering but then when you after you start work you can go more
to safety so a process safety or you can if you want go more towards being on
site or construction or management or anything Chemical Engineering is quite a
good broad degree that equips you with a lot of skills that are highly the called
sought-after yes by a lot of employees so it's a massive plus I feel like we
should do the reveal we can do the live oh they're probably gonna see the
drawing we should have said this earlier this is so embarrassing it's gonna be
out there so this is just a highlight you can be an engineer but not good at
drawing stuff which is my case yeah I'll eat a dice I'm gonna turn mine over you
gonna turn yours over as well they were gonna say there they're gonna show this
to Sarah she's not biased at all so I'll look at yours first I have to guess what
yours is okay you're supportive I'm my friend Hayley right here laughing at mine
this is not what I expected
all that matters is that she guesses the drawing okay we're gonna guess is
together it's tinky-winky because you wrote great
Tinky Winky Winky Winky is doing a P&ID drawing yeah I don't know who won we
both were! high five! right, my turn, I feel like yours is better
Is it Minnie? Minnie mouse? yes. there's a pipe and there's paper. Is she
doing a um? A pipe...what's the word in English? Not expecting, what is it when you check? What is the word!? Sorry guys I'm not English!
Minnie mouse is inspecting a pipe? High five! You know what I'm giving Hayley my point
Sorry guys, due to my errr This is so good!
I'm really impressed that we managed to get that actually!
look at the details in the face if you have any questions for Khauola and she
will be in my comments at any time answering questions. You didn't know that did you? No I did
not actually! basically if you have a question then I will just message
Khaoula and I will send her your answer. I mean Khaoula's answer! Send it to you!
thank you very much see you next time