(55u) Building Process Safety Intelligence: What Should Every Graduating Chemical Engineer Know?
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
2019
2019 Spring Meeting and 15th Global Congress on Process Safety
Global Congress on Process Safety
GCPS Poster Session
Monday, April 1, 2019 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Process safety intelligence is derived from derived from a vast corpus of sources - including textbooks, handbooks, journals, conferences, incident reports, safety datasheets, and available materials and thermophysical property data. Dedicated decision-support tools enabling practitioners to harness this intelligence in their daily work, such as Knovel are an important component of chemical engineering practice today. However, many students donât realize the breadth and depth of technical knowledge needed to support process design and safety â they tend to overrely on non-specialist search, and miss pedigreed information available on specialized knowledge platforms, such as Knovel.
The undergraduate engineering space offers an excellent opportunity to plant the foundational information seeking behaviors in future process safety professionals and leaders. Knovel focuses on applied a preview of the types of insight they will be forced to leverage in industry careers, without a direct cost to students and faculty.