Taken from U.S. News When the U.S. military wants help reducing its energy consumption at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii, William T. Hagen, 26, is one of the people summoned. With energy exploration, production and conservation among the country’s most urgent agenda items, along with coping with climate change, Hagen opted to follow up… Read More »
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Congratulations Brian Wang and Travis McCawley, our 2014 Cooper Fellows!
Congratulations Brian Wang and Travis McCawley, our 2014 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 »
CET Team, Occuhunt, Streamlines & Digitizes Fairs
Occuhunt, a CET Venture Lab Team is building a website that helps students discover, prepare and apply for job opportunities at career fairs and information sessions. The site also helps facilitate exchanges between students and recruiters. Taken from berkeleyByte “We want the application process to be very transparent,” Computer Science freshman Sidwyn Koh said. “From… Read More »
MEng ’14 Student’s Startup Aims to Revolutionize Modern Stethoscope
Connor Landgraf (MEng ’14), CEO of Eko Devices, created his startup while taking the Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (CET)’s IEOR 190E (Mobile Apps) course and now a student in the Master of Engineering program, Landgraf is part of a capstone team that is working to commercialize the technology. His current MEng capstone project advisor… Read More »
Kanga Kare Visits Thailand to Test IncuPack
(The Kanga Kare team tests their IncuPack in a rural hospital in Ngao, Thailand.) Kanga Kare, the winners of the CET Social Entrepreneurship Challenge course (IEOR 190C), visited Thailand to test their revolutionary IncuPack – an incubation vest for newborn babies in rural areas of the world. More than 130 million infants are born every… Read More »
Ken Singer & Richard Swart Quoted on Changes Crowdfunding Is Bringing About
Taken from crowdexpert.com The leading example is the College of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Courses at their Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology help students gain an understanding of crowdfunding practices and how to use them in the early stages of entrepreneurial finance. The program, led by the College of Engineering’s Fung Institute… Read More »
Crowdfunding: How a radical new finance model is changing product development, research and the arts
Fung Institute's Richard Swart is interviewed by Elisabeth Lopez of the University of Melbourne's Up Close. He describes the explosive growth of crowdfunding in its very short history and explains how crowd-sourced funding is radically and irrevocably changing how business is done. Link to Interview
MEng ’14 Student’s Team Wins the Kellogg Biotech & Healthcare Case Competition
Congratulations to Jennifer Wong (MEng ’14) and her fellow UCB students for winning the Kellogg Biotech & Healthcare Case Competition! Taken from MEng Student Experience Blog During the last weekend of January, I was part of a team that flew to Chicago to compete for first prize at the Kellogg Biotech & Healthcare Case Competition.… Read More »
CET Venture Lab Alumnus named to Forbes Under 30 Social Entrepreneurs
Christopher Ategeka, a CET Venture Lab alumni, was named to Forbes 30 under 30 for Social Entrepreneurship! Way to go Chris! LINK
The Path from Executive Education to Corporate Innovation
Photo: Coca-Cola and World Health Products executive discussing strategy options for China in Shanghai with simultaneous translation. December 16, 2013. I’m on my way back from Shanghai after being invited to work with a group of Chinese executives on their product innovation and intrapreneurship strategies, using aspects of my newly developed model for professional/executive education. … Read More »