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Perovskite PV Specialist for Indoor, Outdoor, and Outer Space | Materials Chemist

About a job ad/candidate brief of Lecturer in Chemical Engineering: First few points already sieve aside non-Chemical Engineering graduates. In my home country (Indonesia), we call this linearity requirement. I thought this was a thing of the past in advanced countries. But I found this among ads from Russell's Group university lectureship openings. If you were a hiring manager, would you consider applicants whose first degrees were in Chemistry, Engineering Physics or Materials Science but had conducted research in Chem Eng department during her/his PhD or postdoctoral stints to teach in your chemical engineering department?

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Rama Oktavian

Doctoral Student at Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, University of Sheffield

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Could I share my point of view as a lecturer who has a first degree in chemical engineering? Please note that they are recruiting a lecturer in Chemical Engineering whose main job is delivering a course of chemical engineering for undergraduate teaching not only conducting a research. Imagine that you are hiring a lecturer with relatively not sophisticated background on chemical engineering. For example, a chemist or material scientist learned a little subject about how to calculate material and energy balance (basic principle calculation) for processing raw materials to mass-scale project. Moreover, I believe that a chemist or material scientist are not familiar with unit operation design such as calculating how big vessel or tank required for chemical reaction or distillation process. Although, they could understand about the principle of chemical reaction and materials selection for all unit operations in chemical engineering design. In conclusion, teaching undergraduate chemical engineering students requires you to deliver all of chem eng courses in order to make them understand better than you. Therefore, based on my opinion, a strong background of chemical engineering knowledge is essential for chem eng lecturer.

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