INCORPORATING COMPUTER-BASED TOOLS OF VARIOUS SCALES Into the ChE Curriculum

摘要

Many of the challenges facing chemical engineering departments regarding the use of computers in undergraduate education were recently reviewed by Edgar. These challenges come about because of the substantial growth in the number of multiple-purpose and dedicated software packages used in the chemical industry, education, and research. At the same time, there remain substantial practical and educational benefits to teaching computer programming using languages such as FORTRAN, Visual Basic, C, or C++. There is obviously not enough room in the undergraduate curriculum to include all the courses required to teach computer programming and all the state-of-the-art software packages currently used in chemical engineering. Thus, it is desirable to construct a general framework that enables sufficient coverage of computer programming as well as the use of multiple purpose and dedicated software packages.