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 Four Critical Engineering Leadership Skills That Drive Profits and Innovation
Watch this on demand webinar as engineering leadership experts share strategies to improve your management skills. Get practical tips to help you align people and goals with project requirements and enterprise perspective. Start on a path to help reduce risk and improve products and profitability with these skills every engineering leader should have.
Our presenters elaborate on 4 critical leadership skills:
• Self-Leadership - improve communication style to inspire and lead
• People Management – coach, mentor and educate teams to boosts productivity
• Operational Processes – identify core technologies to improve project outcomes
• Organizational Alignment – align people with organization vision and mission
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 Beyond Aerospace: The Business Case for Composites
You have likely heard about the mechanical properties composites offer — light weight, high strength, unbeatable durability. Applied properly, composites can improve everything from pipes to bridges to wind turbines and cars, but how do you add them to your toolbox?
Jeff Sloan, Editor of CompositesWorld kicks off the conversation on untapped benefits, practical tradeoffs and how you can start using composites to find better engineering solutions for your products, equipment and structures.
Learn why you should use composites including: competitive costs compared to traditional materials, improved performance, extended lifecycle, getting to market faster – reduce time from concept to reality.
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 Create High Functioning Engineering and Science Teams
Understand the People Side of Lean
You’ve heard about Lean Manufacturing, now you need to know about Lean Engineering. Experts share real case examples of process improvement strategies and tactics that take advantage of emotional intelligence and Lean principles and tools to motivate, lead and enable engineers to become a highly effective team that produces quality projects on time with consistent and sustainable results.
Experts Larry Smith, CEO and Bill Kay, Senior Vice President of Haley & Aldrich explain how the differences (and similarities) in behaviors and styles of your engineers can be leveraged to:
- Improve team performance
- Play to the strengths and natural abilities of your team members
- Achieve predictable and sustainable results faster
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 Are You Sinking All Of Your Time Into Float?
How to Offer More Schedule Certainty to Your Customers
Now available on demand! In one hour, learn how you can assess your overall project schedule to plan for worst case scenarios, bottlenecks, estimation inaccuracies, and other schedule uncertainties to deliver quality projects on time.
Join our panel of industry experts for this complimentary webinar where they will discuss keys ideas and best practices for project schedule risk avoidance/mitigation such as:
- Assessing sources of uncertainity and estimating schedule impact
- Analyzing worst case scenarios and pulling risk forward
- Who owns float and can collaborating & sharing risk really work?
- Gaining control of the change/modification process
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 Shale Gas: A Game Changer
With expert Martha Gilchrist Moore, Senior Director - American Chemistry Council, Seth Roberts, Director of Energy & Climate Change Policy, The Dow Chemical Company and Rebekkah Marshall, Editor-in-Chief - Chemical Engineering
What you will learn:
- Understanding of the U.S. position on the global ethylene supply curve & what it means for global competitiveness
- Current activities in each major shale region/play and the current market drivers
- Potential job creation, capital investment & economic output resulting from increased supply of natural gas from shale
- Innovations stimulating the development of shale gas reserves
- The economic impact for downstream industries
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Design News Radio - Bridging the Mechanical & Embedded Design Worlds
Design engineering is becoming increasingly interdisciplinary, and the product prototyping and manufacturing process requires multiple skill sets, including how best to implement the interface between the embedded portion and the external world.
Listen as Pascal Vera of Siemens and CAD Editor Beth Stackpole share prescriptive advice for a successful end-to-end development experience.
Sponsored by Knovel and Siemens
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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