Design, Development and Implementation of a Master of Science Program for Chemical and Nuclear Engineering: Integration of CAPE (Modelling, Simulation and Control) Skills

Abstract

The paper deals with the definition of guidelines to integrate the topics Computer-Aided Process Engineering (CAPE), specifically modeling, simulation and control, with the nuclear engineering field. This novel educational program arises from specific market analyses that show the increasing and relevant request of different countries (i.e. Russian Federation) for specialists skilled in chemical engineering as well as in nuclear physics and chemistry of radioactive elements. Competences in CAPE typical of chemical engineering such as the model predictive control, the dynamic optimization and the phenomenological modeling are going to be extended to the nuclear field. Conversely, complex physico-chemical phenomena of nuclear engineering are going to enlarge modeling viewpoint of the chemical engineering