Rethinking Chemical Product Design Education

CACHE Trustee and Penn Professor Warren Seider, alongside design instructors from around the world, co-authored an article calling attention to a critical gap in traditional chemical engineering design courses: the emphasis on manufacturing processes over innovative product design.

The authors argue that students should be taught how to create new, consumer-driven products using the latest research—an approach that could also help reverse declining enrollments in the field.

As Dr. Jeffrey Cohen (Johnson & Johnson) notes, chemical engineers are uniquely positioned to design high-value, sustainable products using cutting-edge methods and technologies.

Interested in how design education can evolve? Read the full article and explore how to teach modern product design courses in the Supplemental Material.