Spreadsheets in chemical engineering education - A tool in process design and process integration

International Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 928-938

  Ferreira, Eugénio C ^a   Lima, Ricardo ^b   Salcedo, Romualdo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING CURVES; NONLINEAR PROBLEMS; PROCESS DESIGN; PROCESS INTEGRATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRATION; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROCESS CONTROL; SPREADSHEETS; STUDENTS;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 10044229482     PISSN: 0949149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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