EURECHA Activities
Upcoming activities
One of the main recurring activities is the annual EURECHA Process Design Contest.
Submission for the 2027 edition is open until April 15, 2027 – register now!
Past activities
The EURECHA Process Design Contest (previously EURECHA Student Contest) has been running for several years. A selection of past topics and winning contributions is available here.
EURECHA has co-organized several events during the ESCAPE conference series, for example:
- Sessions related to education at several past ESCAPE conferences
- Workshops on “Effective Course Development” at ESCAPE-35 (Ghent, Belgium, 2025) and ESCAPE-36 (Sheffield, UK, 2026)
- Best poster award at ESCAPE-35 in Ghent, Belgium, 2025, sponsored by Frontiers in Energy Research:
- 1st prize: Rohit Murali (University of Surrey, UK)
- 2nd prize: Erbet Almeida Costa (NTNU, Norway)
- 3rd prize: Julie Dutoit (EPFL, Switzerland)
Recent publications on teaching practice:
- Lewin et al. “Generative AI in Process Design Instruction: A Survey of Students and Faculty” Systems & Control Transactions 5 (2026): 2638-2645.
- Lewin et al. “Teaching Process Design–Quo Vadis?” Computer Aided Chemical Engineering. Vol. 53. Elsevier, 2024. 3505-3510.
- Lewin et al. “Agile process systems engineering education: What to teach, and how to teach” Computers & Chemical Engineering 170 (2023): 108134.
- Lewin et al. “Agile Process Systems Engineering (PSE) education–2. How to teach to achieve desired outcomes mastery by graduates” Computer Aided Chemical Engineering. Vol. 51. Elsevier, 2022. 1675-1680.
- Kondili et al. “Agile Process Systems Engineering (PSE) education–1. What should be taught to achieve desired outcomes mastery by graduates?” Computer Aided Chemical Engineering. Vol. 51. Elsevier, 2022. 1663-1668.