Software

EURECHA is actively investigating different software with the aim of making recommendations for teaching and arranging for acceptable terms for its licensing. EURECHA also encourages academic software developers to bring their software to EURECHA for distribution to the academic community for teaching purposes. In this way, EURECHA hopes to become the forum where commercial software developers can come to see the latest developments from academia and educational institutions can come to see the latest software that can be used for educational purposes. Thus software distributed through EURECHA are a) relatively simple and of deductive value, b) state of the art with respect to the latest theoretical developments, c) commercially established professional software.

A new updated list of educational software is under way. Some new educational software from EURECHA members is now available. Please check the educational software list.

Case Studies

Problem specifications and solutions (for the teacher of the corresponding course) of well tried case studies and design projects. The objectives of the case studies is to highlight a specific theme (property prediction, process simulation, process optimisation, data reconciliation, process control, etc.) through the solution of a relevant problem with the help of software distributed by EURECHA. For each case study, a problem specification is provided (free for members and non-members) and a detailed solution (free only for members).

EURECHA members have now prepared six case studies. Documents including problem description, method of solution and results are available for each case study. These documents can be obtained (downloaded) from the EURECHA home-page or directly contacting the author. For further details, please check the list of EURECHA case studies.

Short Courses and Workshops

EURECHA has decided to arrange short courses and workshops associated with advanced topics or topics of current interest. These courses/workshops are aimed at Ph.D.-students, teachers and engineers/scientists involved with computer aided process engineering. EURECHA arranges these courses/workshops together with well known invited experts on the course/workshop topic. EURECHA and CACHE members are given subsidised rates.

Educational Sessions

EURECHA organises at least one educational session during the ESCAPE meetings with invited and contributed oral presentations. In the invited presentations, faculties from EURECHA member institutions are invited to present their views/practice of the use of computers in chemical engineering education. The lecture notes from invited speakers are distributed by EURECHA.

Student contest problems

 

Projects financed from available budget

 

Questionnaires

At suitable intervals, it is the objective of EURECHA to monitor the degree of computer application occurring in the various institutions, and record the current policies on hardware and software within the membership.

A new questionnaire is planned for the new millennium. Suggestions for this questionnaire are most welcome.