This book is an experiment. To be precise, the book is not an experiment, but the approach 
of introducing and employing new concepts of chemical engineering analysis, concurrently 
with new concepts in computing, as is presented within this book, is experimental. Usually, 
the student of a first course in chemical engineering is presented with material that builds 
systematically upon engineering concepts and the student works within this linear space to 
"master" the material. In fact, however, the process is never so linear. For example, mathe- 
matics, in the form of geometry, algebra, calculus and differential equations, is either dredged 
back up from the student's past learning to be employed practically in the solution of material 
and energy balance problems or new math methods are taught along the way for this purpose.