Industry, however, desires quick solutions for its current pressing problems. This collaboration can capitalize on Bilateral communication of ideas. Responses to state or nationwide research initiatives. Chemical Engineering and CAPE CAPE problems are engineering problems. For their solution, they require thorough understanding of both the process involved and current computing technology.
Chemical engineers are uniquely qualified to combine both skills.
The need for CAPE researchers to combine expertise from several disciplines presents a challenge and an opportunity. It is, for example, becoming increasingly evident that no single paradigm will dominate process control research in the near future. As another example, the use of statistics becomes increasingly more widespread in the automatic interpretation of huge volumes of data accumulated by data acquisition systems in chemical plants. The diversity of tools used by CAPE researchers today is gradually reflected in the titles of sessions organized by the CAST division of AIChE in national meetings. Conclusions Computer-aided process engineering is a research field with predictably high potential.