THE USE OF COMPUTERS IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION Dole E. Briggs Brice Carffahan Brymer Williams Department of Chemical and Metollurgical Engineering The University of Michigan Sanvary 1, 1963 This material is distributed by The Ford Foundation Project ‘on the Use of Computers in Engineering Education ot The University of Michigan. This report appears in the library edition of the Final Report of the Project and is also issued ‘as separate booklet, Similar “Curriculum Reports” for other engineering disciplines are also available on request.=n yn LM p40‘Dita A Shy fers ABSTRACT. For many years the Chentcal Engineering Department of The University of Michigan has been enploying electronte computers in ite various research and educational programs. During the past three years, in particular, the Department has made a special effort to integrate the use of anelog and digital computers throughout the required undergraduate currteulum. This report desoribes sone of the characteristics of these machines which make then useful not only as problen solving tools but also as purely educational devices, and relates the faculty's expert ences with computers in both the undergraduate and graduate prograns. ‘The Departnent!s curriculum 4s discussed with special emphasis on courses in which computers have been used extensively. Inelve couputer-oriented example engineering protiens with complete analog or digital couputer solutions are also included. This get of problens may be considered az a supplenent to the 121 example engineering problems, including several of interest to chenteal engineers, which have been published previously by the Project on the Use of Computers 1n Engineering Hdueation at The University of Michigan, -n-