Fruitful partnerships between academia and industry are essential for accelerating the discovery of viable technologies for making cleaner, more efficient fuels and chemicals. The Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis (CEBC) has established these types of lasting partnerships and used them to create a unique training experience for its students. This presentation will highlight the comprehensive education and training activities at CEBC, which include the following major focus areas. First, teams of chemistry and chemical engineering students work together on complementary aspects of a common problem, which improves communication and knowledge transfer across disciplines. Second, close industry collaboration ensures that research projects will make a significant impact, increasing the likelihood they will become commercially viable. CEBC students are taught how to compare their alternative technologies to current, benchmarked processes, using both economic and environmental assessments. Employing these strategies at early stages of development helps students determine the “greenness” of the process or product and its economic viability. CEBC students also receive training that builds leadership, teamwork, laboratory safety and communication skills. The center especially emphasizes the importance of communicating to non-technical audiences by providing numerous opportunities for public outreach. Unique courses have also been developed at CEBC to educate students about how catalytic processes in industry are selected for research, developed, and commercially implemented. A series of case studies have been developed that help students understand not only the scientific basis for the research, but also important business issues.