CACHE

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.