APPLICATIONS OF A MICROCOMPUTER COMPUTATION PACKAGE.

This paper presents three specific examples of chemical engineering problems which can be interactively solved on personal computers with commercially available software. Our purpose is to illustrate the potential impact of interactive problem solving on chemical engineering education by discussing how this has been accomplished at Ben Gurion University (BGU) and the University of Connecticut (UConn). The authors experience has clearly demonstrated that a personal computer can be used to considerable advantage in numerical problem solving in many chemical engineering courses. The capacity to easily apply numerical methods with packages such as POLYMATH will allow the solution of more realistic problems without requiring excessive student time.