Project Ideas• Basic philosophy – use software to support learning and understanding. The

focus should not be on training in usage of specific software.• AIChE student contest problems

– Scan and post on CACHE web site; password protected?– Add reviews/ suggestions by CACHE trustee or other volunteer– Gordon Ellis contact person– Survey design instructors on how it would be used?– Copyright release form available?

• Safety software: joint with SACHE– Sizing relief valves, risk assessment, haz ops?

• Reviews of books & software– Identify books & software and create annotated inventory– Pointers to web sites e.g., Aspen web site, Matlab– Discussion forum or wiki– Simulation modules

• Survey of computer usage– Use of computing in curriculum– Suggestions / identification of needs– Inventory of software

Project Ideas• CACHE recommendations of software schools should be using

– Which are must, which desirable and which are nice– Tutorial on how to use– Pedagogical approaches for more effective usage

• Guidelines on how to use & check results of software– Collection of information available– Not just how to use – how check results– Where does it work ? where does it not work?– How do you pull apart a program to test it?– From virtual group that can go forward with it– Pilot project on one subdomain?

• CACHE provides phys props data base to all students– CACHE & DIPPR data base– Student use of commercial flowsheet software

• Promote and use iPhone aps– Involve student chapters via competition

Software type Familiarity Interpret Basic use Adv Use Program

MS Excel 5 6

SS process simulation (e.g. AspenPlus, ChemCAD) 6 3

Dynamic simulation (e.g. gPROMS, UniSim Dynamics) 1 1 7

Batch process design (e.g. SuperPro, Dynachem) 7 1

CFD (e.g. Fluent, COMSOL) 3 4 1

Safety assessment (e.g. PHAPro, PHAWorks, LOGAN) 5 2 1

Pressure relief (e.g. Superchems) 7 1

Heat transfer design (eg. HTRI, UniSim STE, Aspen STE) 6 1 2

Molecular modeling (e.g. Gaussian, CACHE modules?) 8 2

Mobile Apps (e.g. ?!?!?)

Optimization (e.g. GAMS, Matlab) 8

Visual Basic 1 4

Programming languages (e.g. C++, Fortran, Matlab) 6

Project management (e.g. MS Project, ACEProject) 4 3 1

Numerical methods (e.g. Polymath, MathCAD) 10 1

Drafting (e.g. AutoCAD, MS Visio) 1 5

Statistical packages (Statistica, Minitab, JMP) 8