For upper-level undergraduate chemical engineering courses in Chemical Engineering Process Design, an A.B.E.T. requirement.
Designed to help chemical engineering students make the transition from solving well-posed problems in a specific subject to integrating and applying all the knowledge they have gained to solving open-ended process problems. It is intended to help students hone their design skills through process design, rather than plant design and move them toward becoming practicing engineers. In that way, the book takes a systems- oriented approach, rather than to simply provide a compendium of design information.
RICHARD TURTON, P.E., has taught the senior design course at WVU for the past 11 years. Prior to this, he spent 5 years in the design and construction industry. His main interests are in design education and fluid bed coating and agglomeration. RICHARD C. BAILIE has many years of experience in process evaluation, pilot plant operation, plant start-up, and industrial consulting. He also ran his own chemical company. He has taught chemical engineering design for over 20 years at WVU. WALLACE B. WHITING, P.E., is currently Professor and Chair of Chemical & Metallurgical Engineering at University of Nevada, Reno. He has been involved in the practice and teaching of chemical process design for 18 years. JOSEPH A. SHAEIWITZ has been involved in the senior design sequence and the unique sophomore and junior level integrated design projects at WVU for 10 years. His interests include design education and outcomes assessment.