Entrepreneurship
¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ’s Commercialization Academy is excited to introduce a new Research-to-Market program for technologists looking to take their idea to market. Through lectures, workshops and interviews with industry professionals, R2M participants will learn the process of customer discovery.
The ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder New Venture Challenge is recruiting participants for its 11th cohort, offering mentoring and resources for budding entrepreneurs and more than $200,000 for campus startups to make their ideas a reality.
It’s been a big year for ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Engineering entrepreneurship. After starting at ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder in mid-January, I have been focused on creating the most impactful set of integrated resources and opportunities, in and out of the classroom, to support our student and faculty founders and align with our college’s Strategic Vision.
In 1997, Professor Alan Weimer of chemical and biological engineering heard a campus talk by Professor Steven George of chemistry about a novel process of coating surfaces with the thinnest of materials possible, known as atomic layer deposition (
Halley Profita and Dana Hughes could have spent spring break playing outside. Both were drawn to Colorado’s outdoor activities when choosing ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ-Boulder for their doctoral studies. Hughes and his wife like mountain biking;
Boulder business owner Chuck Palmer (ElEngr’76, MS’88) has provided $4 million to help recruit and recognize outstanding faculty in the College of Engineering and Applied Science and the Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering (
Four engineering students from ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ-Boulder packed their bags and headed to Nicaragua during the semester break. But it wasn’t for the weather. It was strictly business for the founders of SolVia Solar.The young entrepreneurs had invented a solar