Planning a Scientific Career in Industry: Strategies for Graduates and Academics

SANAT MOHANTY, with a PhD in chemical engineering, has worked in R&D and in technology management at 3M. He has been involved in scoping new technologies and developing them for a variety of markets. He also spent signi- ficant time interacting with graduating scientists and engineers and orientation of new graduates in the industry.

RANJANA GHOSH, with a master's degree in chemical engineering, has spent more than twelve years in industry in India and the USA, working on operations research applied to a wide set of areas, including transportation, chemical industry, aviation, and defense. Most recently, she was engaged in developing technologies for the aerospace sector as a scientist at Honeywell.