40 Years of CACHE with a View to the Future

1. 40 Years of CACHE with a View to the Future Frank Doyle CACHE President AIChE Annual Meeting, Nashville, 2009

2. A Brief Retrospective

3. Origins: 1969 • Tuesday, November 18, 1969 (during AIChEMtg week) • James Christensen, Eugene Elzy, Edward Grens, Robert Jelinek, A.I. Johnson, Matthew Reilly, ImreZwiebel, Robert Weaver, Art Westerburg, Lawrence Evans, RudolpheMotard, Ernest Henley, Richard Hughes, Brice Carnahan, J.D. Seader, Warren Seider • “to accelerate the integration of digital computation into the chemical engineering curriculum by sustained inter-university cooperation in the preparation of recommendations for curriculum and course outlines and new computing systems” • CACHE: Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering Education • 5 sub-committees (Curriculum, Standards, Physical Properties, Dynamic Systems, and New Projects) • Early initiatives • FORTRAN computer programs (curricular applications, standards) • CACHE News • Departmental representatives (123 in US and Canada) • FLOWTRAN guidelines, workshops, newsletter, user group

4. Selected CACHE Reports and Publications • Standards for CACHE FORTRAN Computer Programs (1972) • CACHE Guidelines for Large-Scale Computer Programs (1973) • CACHE Guidelines for Computer Networks (1974) • CACHE Use of FLOWTRAN on UCS (1977) • “Computers in Education: How Chemical Engineers Organized the CACHE Committee,” by Seider, Evans, and Westerberg, in EDUCOM Bulletin, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp 10-17, Summer 1973. • “Use of FLOWTRAN Simulation in Education,” by J. Peter Clark and Jude T. Sommerfeld,” in Chemical Engineering Education, p 90, Spring 1976. • “What is CACHE?,” by Himmelblau and Hughes, in Chemical Engineering Education, pp 84-87, Spring 1980. • “Computer Graphics in Chemical Engineering Education,” by Edgar, in Chemical Engineering Progress, pp 55-59, March 1981. • “Computer Graphics in ChE Education,” by Reklaitis, Mah, and Edgar, in Engineering Education, pp 147-151, December 1983. • “The Impact of Computers on Undergraduate Education,” by Finlayson, in Chemical Engineering Progress, pp 70-74, February 1984. • “Computer Aids in Chemical Education,” by Edgar, Mah, Reklaitis, and Himmelblau, in ChemTech, pp 277-283, 1988. • “Education and Training in Chemical Engineering Related to the Use of Computers,” by Seader, in Computers and Chemical Engineering, Vol. 13, pp 377-384, 1989. • “Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering Education: An Assessment of CACHE — 1971-1992,” by Seider, in Computer Applications in Engineering Education, Vol.1, No. 1, pp 3-10, 1992.

5. CACHE’s Role in Conferences/Workshops • Cooperation with ASEE / Summer Schools for Chemical Engineering (1972, 1977, 1982, 1987, 1992, 1997, 2002, 2007, …) • CACHE Conference Series • FOCAPD (1983, 1989, 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009, …) • CPC-III (1986, 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006, …) • FOCAPO (1987, 1993, 1998, 2003, 2008, …) • ISPE (1995) • FOMMS (2000, 2003, 2006, 2009, …) • FOSBE (2005, 2007, 2009, …)

6. CACHE WWW Sitewww.cache.org

7. Looking to the Future

8. Energyhttp://www.chem.mtu.edu/~jmkeith/fuel_cell_curriculum/

9. Biologyhttp://www.fosbe.org

10. CSE Drivers[Phil Westmoreland]

11. Future of Curriculum, Conferences • Education • Electronic Textbooks • Web-based Course Content • Visualization tools • Social Networking • Conferences • Webcasts (synchronous, or asynchronous) • Frequency, locations

12. Awards

13. CACHE Sponsorship of Awards • Lawrence B. Evans Award in Chemical Engineering Practice (2009 – ) • Jeff Siirola • David Himmelblau Award for Innovations in Computer-Based Chemical Engineering Education (2008 – ) • Daniel Lewin • CACHE Award for Excellence in Computing in Chemical Engineering Education (1996 – ) • Brice Carnahan