2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Incidents such as Bhopal, T2 and the 2020 Beirut explosion have continued to remind chemical engineers of the personal, environmental and business cost of not designing with process safety in mind. Industry uses a framework to help engineers design and evaluate processes. This same process safety framework is used in CCPS/Industry process safety faculty workshops to teach faculty about process safety. The framework and associated learning outcomes can help departments define and assess program goals for process safety, enable faculty to integrate content into their existing courses and help faculty design new process safety courses. Teaching students to use the framework helps them to organize information learned and identifies areas for improvement. This work-in-progress presentation will show how this framework can be used for all these applications and how the framework is being used to design the 5th Edition of Chemical Process Safety: Fundamentals with Applications.