Knovel's Expert Webinars Series

Creating Knowledge Workers for the Greener Product Marketplace

Available on demand now. Three prominent business, design and engineering educators will address an increasingly important challenge: How to integrate environmental sustainability into product development education to prepare students for jobs in the greener economy.

Panelists include:
Sinan Erzurumlu, Assistant Professor, Babson College
Richard Braunstein, Adjunct Faculty & Designer, Georgia Institute of Technology
Sridhar Condoor, Ph.D., Prof. Aerospace & Mech. Engineering, Saint Louis University

Are you ready for the OSHA Chemical NEP inspections?

Available on demand now. Watch this expert review of OSHA’s new National Emphasis Program for chemical facilities and how it will affect you.

While OSHA’s PSM standard (29 CFR 1910.119) has been around since 1992, this is the most significant OSHA inspection program to date. The program begins immediately and concerns Process Safety Management covered facilities. OSHA’s refinery industry and 2009 pilot Chemical Facility programs revealed that even facilities with a comprehensive process safety management program can have insufficient performance. Our expert speakers recommend best practices for preparing.

Bridging the Engineering Skills Gap that Threatens UK Industries

How can education, business and government solve this crisis? Companies increasingly lack skilled engineers to replace aging baby boomers. This problem threatens the competitive edge of industries across the UK and worldwide. Educators, corporations, and government are increasingly concerned about the lack of experienced and graduating engineers available, and how to capture, retain, and transfer the knowledge from retiring baby boomers to new hires and mid-career engineers.

Presenters share “outside the box” ideas as they discuss the issues and propose solutions.

Developing One-of-a-Kind Composite Structures for Science and Exploration at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Dr. Daniel Polis, Materials Engineering Team Leader from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center discusses composite materials that are regularly employed in spacecraft buses, instrument benches, deployable structures, and solar array substrates.

Design News Radio - Bridging the Mechanical & Embedded Design Worlds

Listen as Pascal Vera of Siemens and CAD Editor Beth Stackpole explore how to bridge the mechanical and embedded worlds.

Sponsored by Knovel

Biosurfactants: Cost Effective, Healthier and Sustainable Surfactants

Learn about the current industrial status of biobased surfactants, the potential for “green” manufacturing, and novel applications for biobased surfactants. 

Surfactants are ingrained in our everyday lives. We use them in cleaning agents, paints & coatings, foods, personal-hygiene & cosmetics, lubricants, and products for environmental remediation among others. Manufacturers and users of surfactants are challenged by rising petroleum prices and demand for healthier, sustainable products. These concerns are driving increased interest in the utilization of bio-based surfactants.

Designing & Managing Influent Water Systems- Keys to Minimizing Risk & Maximizing Flexibility

Learn the keys to maximizing reliability and flexibility of influent water systems for existing and new implementations. Experts Dave Christophersen, VP/Technical Manager, Crown Solutions, Colin Frayne, Consultant, Aquassurance, Inc. and Loraine Huchler, President, MarTech Systems, Inc.  bring to light the benefits of proper design framework to help you prepare for emerging needs, select better equipment and avoid costly mistakes.

Generate Better Project Results - Learn what holds projects back and how to succeed

Learn about the steps you may be overlooking that will help you run more successful engineering projects, even in the face of variable priorities, changing expectations, and global workforces. Speakers Doug Russell, Director of Engineering at Overwatch, an Operating unit of Textron Systems and Mike Campbell, President, MCA International LLC drew on dozens of years of real-world experience to provide examples that illustrate how intrinsically project communication and project success go hand-in-hand.

Optimizing Risk Management Systems and Safety Culture

During this webinar experts Scott Randall, Managing Director of PlusAlpha Risk Management Solutions and Russ Davis, Senior Consultant, Process Safety at Aon Energy Risk Engineering explored steps your company can take to upgrade and transform risk management programs into a competitive advantage.

Learn what can be done to make process safety culture more effective.

Designing and Verifying Safety Instrumented Systems

Attendees of this webinar learned best practices for defining, analyzing and verifying safety levels of proposed and existing safety systems.

During the webinar experts Bill Goble, Managing Partner and Co-founder of Exida; Paul Gruhn, ISA 84 Expert and Training Manager at ICS Triplex | Rockwell Automation; and Edward Marszal, President of Kenexis shared best practices for defining, analyzing and verifying safety levels of proposed and existing safety systems.

Engineers Professional Use of Social Networks Today and Where It's Heading

Kate Worlock, Outsell Director and Lead Analyst shared findings from a recent study around the current use of online social networks by engineers. Kate’s research is be juxtaposed with the real-world experiences of Alan Belniak, Director of Social Media at PTC and Sahitya Sehgal, owner of the Industrial Engineering Network on LinkedIn.

Materialistic Engineering: Build Stronger, Better Products Using Interactive Tables and Equations

Deriving a sheet-metal part's wall thickness from the thermal conductivity values of its material, or determining the curvature of a wind turbine's blade based on the anticipated wind speed at the site, or adjusting the height of a boiler based on the most energy-efficient air-fuel ratio...these are but a few hypothetical design scenarios where you might incorporate interactive equations and property tables into your CAD workflow.