Chemical Engineering Education and Industry Megatrends

The traditional chemical engineering paradigms have been the unit operations approach and later transport phenomena. Most of the education of chemical engineering has been based on these two basic approaches. The question raised is what is the next paradigm and further, how it should be taken into account in the education on chemical engineering? There have been several proposals for the next paradigm, such as process systems engineering, integrated multidisciplinary and multi-scale process engineering, chemical product design and sustainable chemical engineering.