@A.K. I have a feeling you're too quick to make new tags chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/103159/…

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nvm solved. The CP are labelled in the order they are found, thus option 1 ensure the CP will be restricted to BCPs and this will control its numbering in a predictable fashion

@Mithoron I think thin-films could go, but most of the tags I make are material science related which does not receive the same attention.

@A.K. Not enough materials chemists here :(

@Zhe Unfortunately we are a small minority within a small minority. Figures I was told were that Boeing has 45,000 engineers, of which only 2,000 (~5%) are of MSE.

@A.K. I'd be fine if we made materials part of the core chemistry curriculum

But we have this orgo/biochem fetish, possibly for the premeds?

I dunno. It's not ideal

@Zhe It gets no press for being what we define ages of man by. Then your family asks what kind of job can you get all the time.

Unfortunately principles in materials science require breaking most of the clean rules/assumptions in basic chem

@A.K. See, I view that as a good thing

Because you will spend the rest of your chemical career doing that

@A.K. "What kind of job can you get" is a terribly question to ask someone

@Zhe True, nothing interesting would happen with simple rules. I am very apathetic to chem students in P-chem when a chapter in Atkins is a course for us.

The job question goes back to the lack of publicity

@A.K. lol

@A.K. It wouldn't matter to me if the answer were "all of these great jobs." It's just not a very nice question to ask someone

@Zhe I suppose it is not polite. I only discovered the field by blind luck.

I recently sat down with a number of guidance counselors from local high schools and instead of promoting the university, I promoted MSE, figuring that the university would be a logical choice if anyone picked the field. After an hour of explaining that everything they new about college for engineers was wrong the look on their face was priceless.

@A.K. Luck is not how you want to people to discover your field... :/