MATLAB
MATLAB is a programming language used to solve primarily numerical computations and plotting data in most layman terms. The MATLAB application is built around the MATLAB programming language. Typical usage of the MATLAB application involves using the "Command Window" as an interactive mathematical shell or executing text files containing MATLAB code. For Chemical Engineers, the applications are many, ranging from process control, process calculations, numerical manipulation to process simulation and modeling and optimization. MATLAB is a powerful tool to do all these things easily. Chemineers also offer projects in MATLAB that give an intimate vibe to its industrial application.
ASPEN
ASPEN is a process simulation software package widely used in the industry. Given a process design and an appropriate selection of thermodynamic models, it uses mathematical models to predict the performance of the process. In industries, accurate modeling of thermodynamic properties is particularly important and working in ASPEN is a great tool to ponder with. Every year SimuTech offers at least one project based on ASPEN; hence you will definitely get your hands on it. Also, Chemineers conducts Sessions for Chemical Engineering students to learn the use of ASPENTECH software.
COMSOL
The first step in modeling any system is establishing the material balances. In COMSOL, you can enter chemical equations and automatically obtain the material balance equations for the chemical species in the system and the energy balance equations for the system. It's cool, isn't it? Similarly, there are many other operations you can do on it quickly. It is specially designed for chemical engineering, so a chemical engineer should know about it because it is used widely in industries. Besides the classical problems that can be addressed with application modules, the core Multiphysics package can be used to solve PDEs in weak form.
