Five students from the TU Delft and TU Eindhoven were assigned with an M.Sc. research project on implementing knowledge management in different chemical processing companies. The student research projects were set up as a knowledge transfer experiment in itself, encouraging knowledge sharing between the students, between the universities and between the companies involved. In addition. the student projects provided the authors with an excellent opportunity to test the curriculum contents of the process systems engineering specialization in the Department of Technology, Policy and Management in a 'hard core' chemical engineering environment. The multidisciplinary TPM graduates proved to fulfill a need, or at least a niche, in the process industry. This has triggered the development of integrated courses, combining education in process design and operation with organization and (knowledge) management in the department of TPM.