12.17.14 Alice Robb, a Fung Institute Research Fellow has, wrote an article about the struggle for women to get their ventures funded and how they are using crowdfunding to level the playing field. Link to Article
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RanchRide Launches Nov. 10 with the Help of MEng ’14 Capstone Team
Taken from KLTV Starting Monday, November 10, 2014, the new pilot program called “RanchRide” will offer a host of convenient transportation or “mobility” services exclusively to residents of the 4,000-acre Ladera Ranch community and the 6,000-acre Rancho Mission Viejo community, both in South Orange County, CA. MEng ’14 Capstone Team (Rahul Mehendiratta, Saddiq Nuru, Gregory… Read More »
Congratulations Sandya Iyer and Sunil Srinivasan, our 2015 Cooper Fellows!
Congratulations Sandya Iyer and Sunil Srinivasan, our 2015 Cooper Fellows! The Fellowship supports graduate students in the College of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, with a preference for those doing research in energy efficient electrical and power hardware or software solutions, wireless communications and sensing devices, or specialty materials. The fellowship was created… Read More »
Fung Director (Program for Innovation in Entrepreneurial & Social Finance) & Crowdnetic Partner on Breakthrough Crowdfunding Research Study
Taken from Crowdnetic Over a year ago, Crowdnetic and UC Berkeley began collaborating on the launch of UC Berkeley’s groundbreaking Program for Innovation in Entrepreneurial and Social Finance, headed by Richard Swart, who serves as its Director of Research at the Coleman Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership. Through this role, Dr. Swart heads efforts to… Read More »
Fung Director (Program for Innovation in Entrepreneurial & Social Finance) & Lend Academy Partner on Groundbreaking Research Study
Taken from Peter Renton, Lend Academy When I was in London in March I spoke on a panel at the AltFi conference with Richard Swart, a professor at UC Berkeley. He has become one of the leading academics focused on crowdfunding. We have stayed in regular contact since then as Professor Swart has decided to… Read More »
Saddiq Nuru (MEng ’14 CEE) Delivers Graduate Student Commencement Address
Taken from College of Engineering On May 18, in front of a packed Hearst Greek Theatre, Saddiq Nuru (MEng ’14 CEE) took the stage to deliver the graduate student commencement address. Nuru is only 21, but given his upbringing, he already has a unique vantage point. Born in Botswana, he attended secondary school in Nigeria,… Read More »
MEng ’14 Students Place As Top 2 Teams in Larson-Juhl Sponsored Design Tournament Challenge
Taken from BEST Lab News Congratulations to Dizhou Lu’s team “Sports Fanatics” for winning the Larson-Juhl sponsored design tournament challenge and Dian Dong, Theerapat Yangyuenthanasan and Chen Zhuang’s team “Mood Frames” for running up! (All MEng ’14) In Fall 2013, Larson-Juhl sponsored a design tournament challenge in UC Berkeley’s Innovation Through Design Thinking course. The… Read More »
MEng ’14 Students Take 1st, 2nd & Honorable Mention at Big Ideas @Berkeley
Congratulations to Patrick Lyon, Benson Fan, Yayun Chen and Ray Chiu for BioInspira placing 1st in the Information Technology for Society category of the Big Ideas @Berkeley competition, to Luciano Colos for Inversión Para Todos placing 2nd in the Financial Capability category, and Thibault Duchemin and Achal Pandey for an Honorable Mention in the Information… Read More »
Fung Institute Faculty Director’s Paper Wins This Year’s INFORMS Technology Management Best Paper Competition
Congratulations to the Fung Institute’s Faculty Director, Lee Fleming, along with Debbie Strumsky at University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Matt Marx at MIT! The paper they wrote together titled “Mobility, Skills, and the Michigan Non-Compete Experiment” was selected as the best paper published in 2009 at Management Science, winning this year’s INFORMS Technology… Read More »
Ken Singer, CET’s Managing Director, Quoted on Success in Mobile App Industry
Taken from Student World Online Nobody is saying you have to be a genius, but it helps if you study more than computer science, says Ken Singer, who teaches Mobile Applications and Entrepreneurship at the University of California Berkeley. Singer, a mobile entrepreneur since 1999, suggests students take courses outside engineering, such as psychology, sociology,… Read More »