International Conference on Engineering Education – ICEE 2007 Chemical Product Engineering and Design: Active Learning through the Use of Case Studies

Abstract – This paper presents a recently developed web resource of sample problems to teach chemical product design, which is still a not very well established discipline within chemical engineering. The website is organised according to a general template for product development and incorporates some recently proposed concepts to systematise the discipline of chemical product engineering. A case study of a cosmetic lotion is presented in more detail, illustrating the benefits of inductive learning as well as specific topics, namely integrated product/process design and the relationship between product composition and structure and product performance