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Teaching Computational Design for Biomedical and Food Process Engineering

In a globally competitive environment, today’s product and process design must reduce costs and time-to-market. To achieve this, simulation based engineering is rapidly becoming the tool to replace some of the older prototype-based engineering. Introduction of state-of-the-art simulation-based engineering to students, particularly undergraduates, is severely limited by computing power, resources, and lack of good graphical interface. Replacing the back-end computing with desktop computing will make simulation-based engineering more practicable. As students experience the benefits of such a computing tool, it will tend to become a part of their desktop at the workplace, much like the calculator. In the process, it will also provide a competitive edge to U.S. industry in product and process design. For maximum impact to education, we propose here that undergraduates and graduates be exposed to hands-on and intensive computational engineering using high performance workstations that use the intuitive Windows NT graphical user interface to dramatically shorten the learning curve. Applications to biological systems will explore emerging areas that are often computationally intensive, and thus particularly suitable to high-end computing.

We propose to use the computational fluid dynamics software FIDAP, from Fluid Dynamics International, under Windows NT in a senior level engineering design class and for graduate student research. It will provide hands-on experience on a cutting-edge research tool using Intel hardware. As students graduate and wish to use such tools everyday, it will increase the demand for Intel hardware that can handle computationally demanding jobs.

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Last modified on: 10/05/99