What is the salary of computer process control engineers(chemical engineering) in USA AND CANADA?
chem engineers make >$60kUS/yr to start, and around $120kUS at retirement. Process Control Engineering goes by many names – Instrumentation & Contols, Mechatronics, process integration, and others. There are programs at several schools in both the US and Canada. UBC and at least one school in the Toronto area (daughter of a friend graduated in the field and she was in the Toronto area). In the US, Gonzaga (Spokane, WA) has an option/specialty, Purdue (Indiana), TAMU, Penn State (with Stu Churchill), and others. Louisiana State had an internationally recognized faculty member, Cecil Smith, who taught it in the Chem Eng dept for years (starting in the 70s). It is indeed one of the newest fields, and there is a shortage of people with the right training (right out of school). I did the work years ago before people who wanted to do the work came along (I don’t like programming PLCs and DCSs).
