Integrated Chemical Engineering II
MIT OpenCourseWare offers the materials for this project-based chemical engineering course on conceptual plant design. Students learn to use industry process modeling tools such as Aspen to design continuously operating chemical plants. Working in teams, students are assigned a technology to evaluate and design, culminating in a final design report. The spring 2006 offering centers on designing technologies to lower emissions of climatically active gases from coal-fired processes, tying the design work to a real engineering problem of the time. Course materials include assignments, project guidelines, and background readings on process design methods, reflecting MIT's chemical engineering curriculum. The course assumes prior chemical engineering coursework and builds toward practical, industry-relevant design skills rather than pure theory.