ADVANCED MICROCOMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN PROJECT FOR FRESHMEN.

Second-semester freshmen, after one and one half semesters of computer fundamentals, word processing, computer graphics, numerical methods, and Fortran and Basic programming, produced a preliminary design for an ethylene oxide plant using computer simulation modules provided by their instructor. The final design report included converged heat and material balances, a process flow diagram with stream property tables, a plot plan, an equipment summary with the sizes of most equipment, and an economic summary. The computer software was written in Basic.