Webinar: From the engineering classroom to the workplace: Equipping students with scientific literacy for project-based work by Elsevier

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From the engineering classroom to the workplace: Equipping students with scientific literacy for project-based work

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How does the engineering discipline manage the relationships between academic engineering research, workforce training, and industrial R&D? This webinar will help engineering faculty, deans, librarians, and graduate students understand the distinct expectations and deliverables of corporate research and new product/process development environments — and how to cultivate the problem-framing, documentation, and translational thinking skills students need to successfully transition into industry engineering roles that can lead to scientific discovery and progress.

Attendees will learn how to:

Recognize the value of information and scientific literacy to engineering careers
Describe the different types of information genres and sources that career engineers rely on and how they are used

When

Tuesday, September 29, 2026 · 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time (US & Canada) (GMT -4:00)

Presenters

David West

Adjunct professor in the Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston

David West has 45 years of research experience in the chemical industry, first with Dow and later SABIC. His work is described in numerous publications and patents. He is an adjunct professor in the Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, U. of Houston; a Fellow of the AIChE, member of the National Academy of Engineering; Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science, and Technology. David has a BS degree in Chemistry from Florida State University. He was recognized with the AIChE Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division Practice Award, the Southwest Catalysis Society Award for Excellence in Applied Catalysis, and F. G. Ciapetta Lectureship in Catalysis (given by the North American Catalysis Society). His interests include catalysis and reaction engineering, fluid mechanics, transport phenomena, novel material development, and nonlinear dynamics. For a time, he was an editor of the Elsevier book series Advances in Chemical Engineering.

Mark Natanael

Go-To-Market Enablement Manager, Elsevier

Mark Natanael has more than 15 years of end-to-end engineering experience, including field and design engineering. During his time at Elsevier he has served as a Product Manager and Go-To-Market Enablement Manager, working to advance engineer research and education with Knovel and Engineering Village.

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