Interdisciplinary groups, examples

At the time of this writing the School Mental Health Outcomes Group in Baltimore is a vibrant, interdisciplinary group that is well respected by leaders in child education, mental health, and health in Baltimore. Meetings are being convened to expand and formalize the consortium. For example, activities that are... 

Klavs Jensen Sebastian Reyes research on percolative fragmentation, which is the work that Adel Sarofim cited, is an example of what can be achieved by interdisciplinary problem solving, in this case a combination of fluid mechanics and reaction engineering. The idea of using percolation theory came from attending seminars on enhanced oil recovery in Skip Scriven and Ted Davis research group. 

Waste audit is an interdisciplinary activity. Therefore, the team should be formed with diversihed expertise from representative groups or departments, which will have major contribution and interest in the program. Usually, an audit team is a subset of the project team but may include various other personnel whose contribution may be useful. For example, an audit team can be formed from these groups ... 

It investigates certain hazards which are more or less obvious due to substance properties or process conditions. Examples are the handling of highly flammable liquids, process steps under vacuum or, the reverse, under high pressure. A group of coworkers, which at all events should be interdisciplinary, tries to anticipate all possible process or plant conditions in a kind of brainstorming approach by asking the what if question. Then the team evaluates the effects. 

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