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CEP: YPOV - What Is a Chemical Engineer Doing Here?

YPOV
September
2013

In 2011, I took a position with Mack Trucks, Inc., a manufacturer of American-assembled Class 8 heavy trucks with more than 100 years of history. Since then, I wish I had a dollar for every time I was asked the question “What is a chemical engineer doing working at a truck manufacturing plant?”

Considering that my entire seven-year career has been outside of the chemical industry, such a question seems reasonable. What is a chemical engineer doing here?

 

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