The design of sustainable, cost effective processes, with perfect control of product quality, calls for strongly enhanced capabilities of designers. A thorough training in both fundamentals of design methods and CAPE tools as well as in the associated work processes is required to become an expert designer. Manufacturing and engineering companies in the Netherlands have indicated that a more advanced training in design is needed to meet the upper range of design capabilities. The Dutch chemical engineering departments responded by developing specialised two-year postgraduate studies in process systems design. As an example the structure and contents of a post-graduate study in process design at Delft University of Technology is highlighted and evaluated.
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