Data to support engineering diversity initiatives: The Gender Research Report

Innovations in fever charts have led to a significant simplification that allows use of fever charts without the need for training in critical chain project management. With this novel improvement, fever charts have become appropriate in any industry.

In collaboration with the Nickel Institute, Dr. Graham Sussex, foremost expert in corrosion and failure investigations, will explore how stainless and nickel alloys can deliver good heat transfer efficiency.

Most commonly, thermal efficiency and its related cost are the basis of heat transfer designs of commercial and industrial plant and equipment. Simple thermal conductivity is a factor in heat exchangers but it is not significant compared to scaling or fouling caused by corrosion or flow design issues. Economisers and condensing boilers are particular designs where chasing efficiency can lead to significant corrosion unless temperatures and fluid flows are carefully analysed.

In collaboration with the Nickel Institute, Dr. Graham Sussex, foremost expert in corrosion and failure investigations, will explore how stainless and nickel alloys can deliver good heat transfer efficiency.

Most commonly, thermal efficiency and its related cost are the basis of heat transfer designs of commercial and industrial plant and equipment. Simple thermal conductivity is a factor in heat exchangers but it is not significant compared to scaling or fouling caused by corrosion or flow design issues. Economisers and condensing boilers are particular designs where chasing efficiency can lead to significant corrosion unless temperatures and fluid flows are carefully analysed.

The metals and mining industry can be challenging. The key challenges often include:
- Exploring a new region and trying to get up to speed with the geology of the area

- Trying to get more insights into the (geochemical, geophysical, geological) properties of a certain mineral deposit in my study area, including the geometry and dimensions

- Trying to find as much peer reviewed scientific information as possible on best practices of extraction for the mineral deposit.

- Making data useful is time-consuming and there are quality concerns due transcribing data and manual formatting (e.g. cropping maps manually from articles and georeferencing, copying tables from PDF into excel format).

In addition, geoscientists have many questions they need answered such as:
Are there mineral deposits?
- Are there mineral resources?
- Are there mineral reserves?

What does that deposit look like?
- What are the geochemical, geophysical and geological properties ?
- What is the geometry of the deposit?
- How much mineral reserves are there?
- Can we get to it and what is the best method of extraction? At what cost?

Getting ahead of these challenges and questions can be simplifed when companies have all the necessary information to make decisions and mitigate risks.

International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that about 40% of the full lifetime costs of an offshore wind project, including construction and maintenance, have significant synergies with the offshore oil and gas sector (IEA, Offshore Wind Outlook, 2019). This webinar will demonstrate examples of such synergies and how professionals in traditional oil and gas companies can leverage their current skills to transition to renewables. Examples will include:
A) Wind turbine vs offshore oil platform construction
B) Electrical distribution networks vs pipelines
C) Utilizing renewables to offset oil and gas production costs

The Geofacets Customer Forum October 2020 focused on Data Integration and Data Management in natural resource exploration and management. The forum is a unique opportunity for us to gather together to learn from one another, to engage and provide critical feedback to the Geofacets and Professional Services product teams, to network with fellow explorationists, data managers and data scientists.

Harnessing Scientific Information with Artificial Intelligence
Dr George Tsatsaronis

The Geofacets Customer Forum October 2020 focused on Data Integration and Data Management in natural resource exploration and management. The forum is a unique opportunity for us to gather together to learn from one another, to engage and provide critical feedback to the Geofacets and Professional Services product teams, to network with fellow explorationists, data managers and data scientists.
Cory Harper
Geo-relevant Technology Research in Elsevier Labs: From Geolocation Engines to Tables Interpretation and Contextualizing Measurements in Scientific Text

The Geofacets Customer Forum October 2020 focused on Data Integration and Data Management in natural resource exploration and management. The forum is a unique opportunity for us to gather together to learn from one another, to engage and provide critical feedback to the Geofacets and Professional Services product teams, to network with fellow explorationists, data managers and data scientists.

Project Management is an essential part from every business. Strengthening your Project Management skills can improve both your business and personal effectiveness. Knovel can play a significant role in sharpening your skills.

This webinar will cover:
- Using Knovel to create reference work collections, standard operating procedure reference points, and standard equations for team usage while working remotely
- Creating targeted search alerts for journal, dissertation, patent, and other content on Engineering Village
- Integration of Knovel and Engineering Village content onto team websites, reference documents, and other project management workflow tools.

The rapid transition to online instruction under emergent conditions in Spring 2020 occurred without much opportunity for reflection or literature review. As most universities prepare for at least some level of online delivery of their Fall courses, there is now an opportunity to take advantage of the prior research and experiences of other instructors in teaching engineering courses online. To support this effort, this webinar will present an overview of some ways to address key aspects of online instruction as learned through our own personal experiences and supported by the literature. Based on the assertion that effective teaching online follows the same fundamental principles associated with effective teaching in general, we will present tested approaches for both lecture and laboratory classes that are designed to support active engagement, community building, and achievement of course outcomes.

Whether online, remote, hybrid, or in person, all classroom activities can be designed to create student engagement and measure student learning.
Today’s digital tools are creating big data that can help students and faculty improve learning outcomes. Even prior to classroom instruction, interactive textbooks can create an incentive for students to put time into learning the basic definitions and relationships. During class, applying and analyzing engineering problems can be completed using a range of active learning techniques. When teaching remotely, techniques like polling can provide valuable real-time feedback to the instructor. Professor Matthew Liberatore reviews a number of other tactics that will reinforce learning, improve student engagement, and equip faculty with data needed to help achieve learning outcomes, especially when many institutions are shifting towards socially-distant learning.

“In this webinar we will focus on ways to incorporate Knovel into the Engineering classroom, with a special focus on digital coursework given the challenges due to Covid. From use as a primary source for lab reports, experimental design, or research papers to including interactive equations with homework assignments Knovel has various possible applications to make the transition and use of online resources easier for you and your students, & engineers.

Join Knovel for the webinar, Complying with the New Standard of Corrosion Protection, to learn about significant changes to the MIL-STD-889 covering dissimilar metals and galvanic corrosion. In this webinar, foremost corrosion expert Alan Rose explains the latest findings which show that galvanic corrosion is best determined by galvanic current between materials, not by potential difference. He will also review key changes in the dissimilar metals and galvanic corrosion standard (MIL-STD-889C), currently in development. Learn how to comply with the new standards of corrosion protection.
Rose will also discuss better ways of protecting galvanic interfaces in an era when use of composites is increasing.

The chemical industry is becoming increasingly complex, which means that businesses face many new challenges to remain competitive. Many senior executives agree that digitalization is the key to responding to these market complexities and to ensure future success. However, the industry is behind the curve in adopting new digital technologies.

To help R&D professionals, engineers, scientists, safety professionals and other chemical industry leaders understand digitalization opportunities better, this Digitalization in the Chemicals Industry webinar will explore how to integrate big data, predictive analytics and other digital solutions into chemical businesses:

Discover:
•The basics of how new digital technologies can be deployed
•Ways to develop digital processes throughout your enterprise: R&D, Compliance, Toxicology, EHS, supply chain, and manufacturing
•Insights into using technology to boost workflow efficacy, cross-department collaboration and more
•How to leverage data to make better and clearer decisions

This webinar will help you get started on building a new digital business model for your enterprise:
•Plan the best approach for your business
•Improve strategic decision-making
•Drive innovation
•Anticipate new markets
•Develop new products, services and capabilities
•Stay ahead of trends
•Refine best practices
•Find cost-savings solutions to modern day problems
•Improve safety

Digitization will help drive better informed decision-making throughout your company, from R&D to marketing. By taking a systematic approach to adopting new technologies, you can develop new business and operating models that will generate more successful outcomes and help you stay competitive.

Preparing for the world’s future water resource needs is growing increasingly complex. According to the 2020 United Nations World Water Development Report, the use of water has grown 6x in the past 100 years with continual growth expected. Increased demand, plus the effects of global climate change, will stretch water resources to its max.

Aquifers can store water, but the unintended consequences of consumption present a threat to groundwater resources. Overexploitation of groundwater resources is leading to groundwater quality deterioration and depletion, ecosystem degradation, land subsidence and seawater intrusion. Therefore, it is essential to manage groundwater resources in a sustainable way.

In this webinar, you will learn more about how you can leverage information and data from scientific studies on groundwater resources to get an overview of the groundwater quality in your area of interest, which can support the development of sustainable groundwater management strategies.

Sandra Merten, Senior Product Manager of Geofacets, will demonstrate how to:
•Find published maps, tables, plots, and associated article information quickly using Geofacets to get an overview of the published data for the area of interest
•Use maps, tables and associated information from Geofacets in Excel and ArcGIS to analyze the data and gain geospatial insights

Explosion hazards exist in many industrial processes involving powders and other fine particulate that can form when the dusts become suspended in air.

The degree of hazard is affected by many variables such as particle size, moisture content, concentration of dust in the cloud and ignition-source energy.

The foremost industry guidance for preventing and mitigating these explosions are the NFPA standards:
- NFPA 652: Standard on the Fundamentals of Combustible Dust
- NFPA 654 Standard for the Prevention of Fire and Dust Explosions from the Manufacturing, Processing, and Handling of Combustible Particulate Solids

This webinar will highlight the requirements and guidelines, including recent changes to NFPA 652 that mandate "Dust Hazard Assessment (DHA)" for all facilities, existing and new.


This Webinar will benefit:
- Anyone involved with industrial safety, especially involving manufacture, process, blend, conveying, generating, and/or handling of combustible dusts or combustible particulate solids.
- Includes industries such as chemical processing and manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, food, plastic, rubber, metals, textiles, wood, paper and agrochemicals.


Learning Objectives:
* Understanding the key requirements of the applicable NFPA standards
* Understanding the Dust Hazard Assessment (DHA) requirements and methodology
* Understanding practical risk mitigation/improvements that can be made based on the requirements of NFPA 652.


Speaker:
Ronald Melucci, P.E. is a Technical Manager in the Fire Protection and Risk Services Division of Engineering Planning and management (EPM), Inc.

He is a fire protection engineer with 25 years of consulting experience, has published many technical articles and papers and is a regular speaker on various fire protection and process safety topics.

Since 1980, EPM has been a world leader in nuclear and industrial safety specializing in fire protection, code consulting and chemical process safety.