Teaching chemical product design

Warren D. Seider; Saad Bhamla; Jennifer Dunn; Mahmoud El-Halwagi; Tobias Hanrath; M. M.Faruque Hasan; John Hedengren; Laura Hirshfield; Xiaoxia “Nina” Lin; Christos T. Maravelias; Minnie Piffarerio; Stuart W. Prescott; Patrick T. Spicer; Todd M. Squires; Cristina U. Thomas; Jean Tom; Kathleent M. Vaeth; Elaine Wisniewski; Victor M. Zavala

doi:10.1016/j.ece.2025.04.002

Teaching chemical product design

Warren D. Seider, Saad Bhamla, Jennifer Dunn, Mahmoud El-Halwagi, Tobias Hanrath, M. M.Faruque Hasan, John Hedengren, Laura Hirshfield, Xiaoxia “Nina” Lin, Christos T. Maravelias, Minnie Piffarerio, Stuart W. Prescott, Patrick T. Spicer, Todd M. Squires, Cristina U. Thomas, Jean Tom, Kathleent M. Vaeth, Elaine Wisniewski, Victor M. Zavala

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The CACHE Design Task Force has conducted a comprehensive, year-long study on the teaching of chemical product design across global chemical engineering programs. This paper reviews existing literature and highlights distinctions between product and process design, emphasizing the predominance of process design education in universities. Drawing from co-author contributions and responses to a widely distributed questionnaire, we present recent teaching methodologies for chemical product design. The paper discusses trends in chemical engineering diversification and the gradual inclusion of diverse applications in curricula. It concludes with a call to action for chemical engineering educators to integrate well-established product design strategies into undergraduate programs and reflects on insights shared during the 2024 FOCAPD Conference.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	101-110
Number of pages	10
Journal	Education for Chemical Engineers
Volume	52
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ece.2025.04.002
State	Published - Jul 2025

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

General Chemical Engineering
Education

Keywords

ChE diversification
Design curricula
Process design
Product design

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Seider, W. D., Bhamla, S., Dunn, J., El-Halwagi, M., Hanrath, T., Hasan, M. M. F., Hedengren, J., Hirshfield, L., Lin, X. N., Maravelias, C. T., Piffarerio, M., Prescott, S. W., Spicer, P. T., Squires, T. M., Thomas, C. U., Tom, J., Vaeth, K. M., Wisniewski, E., & Zavala, V. M. (2025). Teaching chemical product design. Education for Chemical Engineers, 52, 101-110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ece.2025.04.002

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