TY - JOUR
T1 - Teaching chemical product design
AU - Rodrigues, Alirio
AU - Cussler, E. L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 The Institution of Chemical Engineers.
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - The chemical industry today includes both commodity products and higher value-added products. While the design of commodities is dominated by the process costs, higher value-added products also depend on product design, including discovery, product selection, and time-to-market. Chemical engineering education has sensibly begun to change toward courses on both process and product design. However, while there is an emerging consensus that these changes should take place, there is no clear agreement on what the changes should be. Moreover, these new directions are very difficult to teach, at least in the current environment. This paper will discuss different efforts to incorporate product design into the chemical engineering curriculum and different successes in doing so. However, while the value of including this material seems unquestioned, the way in which it is best taught is unclear.
AB - The chemical industry today includes both commodity products and higher value-added products. While the design of commodities is dominated by the process costs, higher value-added products also depend on product design, including discovery, product selection, and time-to-market. Chemical engineering education has sensibly begun to change toward courses on both process and product design. However, while there is an emerging consensus that these changes should take place, there is no clear agreement on what the changes should be. Moreover, these new directions are very difficult to teach, at least in the current environment. This paper will discuss different efforts to incorporate product design into the chemical engineering curriculum and different successes in doing so. However, while the value of including this material seems unquestioned, the way in which it is best taught is unclear.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ece.2015.12.001
DO - 10.1016/j.ece.2015.12.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84960942668
SN - 1749-7728
VL - 14
SP - 43
EP - 48
JO - Education for Chemical Engineers
JF - Education for Chemical Engineers
ER -