This contribution presents the main results of a work developed through AutoCAD to draw details of Unit Operations Equipments for Chemical Industries. This work is part of an engineering education branch (REENGE) of a Brazilian Program for Engineering Development (PRODENGE). The main purpose of this work is to incentive the students application of AutoCAD at Chemical Engineering College of Campinas State University (UNICAMP). In order to accomplish this some 3-D sketches of mixers and filters were drew thrpough AutoCAD. This sketches provide a way to examine small equipment details as well as to see a full equipment, allow rotate the objects to obtain upper and side views through many simultaneous windows.

This contents are the result of a review in the literature and an access through Internet was provided so the benefits are extended to all that has got a Internet connection.

This scientific initiation paper is a part of the PRODENGE - REENGE project of the Chemical Engineering Faculty of the UNICAMP. This project has the reengineering of the engineering teaching in Brazil as its objective. In order to meet this, the national members of this project aim the engineering courses integration, the introduction of new teaching methodologies and the faraway teaching via Internet. Faraway teaching means all kinds of learning procedure which is developed by the student working interactively with the computer. Hence it can be done either in a in house Lab or in any place where Internet facilities are available.

With these aims in mind, the study has been started with the interaction of the UNICAMP engineering courses: an AUTOCAD R13 drawing datafile of the main unit operation equipment of the chemical industry has been built, therefore helping Chemical Engineering students interested in AUTOCAD. The first equipment pieces handled, have been the agitators and the filters with extensive bibliographical revisions and detailed drawings, which have also been used in the Internet homepages for the faraway teaching.

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