Teaching Resources Center including syllabi, schedules, computer-aided tools, interactive simulations, screencasts, concept questions, textbook information, useful links, and in some cases, complete course notes
CACHE is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit that promotes the development and distribution of computer-related and/or technology-based educational aids for the chemical engineering profession. Some of the activities include:
- Organize and promote conferences and workshops on Computer Aided Process Operations/Chemical Process Control, Computer Aided Process Design, Molecular Modeling and Simulation, Systems Biology in Engineering, and Process Analytics and Machine Learning.
- Maintain a Teaching Resource Center: This center (https://cache.org/teaching-resources-center) houses a curated collection of materials to assist faculty in teaching chemical engineering core courses.
- Support LearnChemE: This free website contains teaching/learning resources for chemical engineering, including screencasts, interactive simulations, digital experiments, FE and PE exam reviews, programming boot camps, self-study modules, instructor resources, how to study/learn resources, and spreadsheets.
- Provide faculty grants to support development of computer-based educational modules (https://cache.org/computational-tools-development)
- Support faculty awards: ASEE Edgar CACHE Award, AIChE Himmelblau Award, AIChE Evans Award
- Provide graduate student travel awards: over $40,000 in last three years for conferences
- Provide student awards for best posters at conferences
- PSE Press: publishes research results on process systems engineering
- Systems and Control Transactions: conference proceedings on process systems engineering
- LAPSE: living archive for process systems engineering
Some recent accomplishments:
- Supported development of Learn Aspen in 24 hours by Tom Adams
- Supported development of Polymath software (https://polymathplus.org/) for numerical problem solving
Future Initiatives:
- Industrial Datasets – Making curated sets available to faculty.
- Molecular Modeling – working to develop curated best practices and teaching materials on how to use quantum chemistry, molecular simulation and machine learning.
Blog
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Member and Video Highlight – Carnegie Mellon UniversityJohn Kitchin Sunday, October 19, 2025A new scientific paradigm: agentic science Read More |
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CACHE Awards Three New Seed Grants for Development of Computational-Based Tools and Modules for Chemical Engineering EducationJonathan Moore Sunday, October 19, 2025Three new proposals have been selected for funding this year to professors from Rowan, Tufts, and Mississippi. Read More |
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CACHE Trustee and Executive Committee Member Jean Tom wins "ACS Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences"Wednesday, August 27, 2025The award was given “for exceptional mentoring, advocacy and outreach in the support of increasing the representation of women in the chemical sciences.” Read More |
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Thank You to CACHE Conference Sponsors!Jonathan Moore Tuesday, July 15, 2025CACHE would like to thank the numerous companies and organizations that have sponsored CACHE conferences in the chemical engineering field in recent years! Read More |
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Rethinking Chemical Product Design EducationMonday, July 14, 2025An article prepared by the CACHE Design Task Force argues that the emphasis on manufacturing processes over innovative product design is a critical gap in traditional chemical engineering design courses. Read More |
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Reading Materials
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AI and ML Open course materials for "Chemical Data Science & Engineering" Mohamad Moosavi GitHub Friday, December 12, 2025 |
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molecular modeling Cohort-Based Learning of Computational Protein Design: Engineering a Helical Protein To Improve Its Stability Beas Mukherjee and Soumya De Journal of Chemical Education Sunday, December 7, 2025 |
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reaction engineering Teaching Computer-Assisted Retrosynthesis Reaction Prediction with Open-Source Software Vincent F. Scalfani, Kevin W. Walker, Avery M. Fernandez, and Timothy S. Snowden Journal of Chemical Education Wednesday, December 3, 2025 |
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polymer and materials science MoleculeCrafter and Noncanonical Base Pairing: A Semiautomated CAD Tool for Creating Flexible and Unitized 3D Printable Macromolecules for Education Elsa Schleicher and Rebecca E. Taylor Journal of Chemical Education Wednesday, November 26, 2025 |
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polymer and materials science Revolutionizing Teaching and Learning of Material Science and Engineering in Chemical Engineering: The Impact of Generative AI SK Safdar Hossain and Bamidele Victor Ayodele Journal of Chemical Education Monday, November 24, 2025 |
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 Development of Computational-Based Tools and Modules for Chemical Engineering Education Seed Grant Program |
 An article prepared by the CACHE Design Task Force argues that the emphasis on manufacturing processes over innovative product design is a critical gap in traditional chemical engineering design courses. |
 conference series in areas of importance to chemical engineering |
Institutional Members
As Institutional Members these colleges of engineering support CACHE's contributions to the engineering education community. Contact us (cache@cache.org) to become a supporter.
Departmental Members
Annual support from these Departmental Members enables CACHE to continue established activities while nurturing new projects. Contact us (cache@cache.org) to become a supporter.
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