 The Clark School's manufacturing extension service, the University of Maryland Manufacturing Assistance Program, a part of the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech) that offers manufacturing solutions to Maryland companies, had a $328.8 million economic impact on manufacturers from January 2000 through the fourth quarter of 2009. UMMAP has assisted Maryland manufacturers in: increasing sales by $85.1 million; retaining sales by $165.5 million; saving $19.2 million in costs; saving $20 million in investments; and increasing plant or equipment investment by $39 million. UMMAP also has helped manufacturers create or retain 1,638 jobs. The data reflects surveys of UMMAP clients by the National Institute of Standards and Technology Manufacturing Extension Partnership.
 Mtech's Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program (MIPS) announced 17 research projects in which university faculty members help Maryland companies to develop technology-based commercial products. Worth $3 million, the projects combine $1.5 million from participating companies and $1.5 million from MIPS. Funding supports research in the laboratories of participating university faculty, who work closely with partner companies to advance their products. All funding goes to the project faculty and often supports the work of graduate students. The projects, which span the state of Maryland, include a traffic surveillance system, a flight display and control system, a paintbrush assembly system, biodegradable seed pots for bay restoration and an exoskeleton device for hand and finger rehabilitation.
 Mtech Technology Advancement Program incubator company Pixelligent Technologies was awarded an $8.2 million project by the National Institute of Standards and Technology through their Technology Innovation Program for the Development and Scale-Up of Nanocomposites.
 Techno-Sciences, Inc. (TSi), a Beltsville, Md., technology development company focused on satellite-aided search and rescue, defense systems and systems engineering, was selected by the Maryland Technology Council as the High Technology Company of the Year in the state of Maryland. TSi's CEO is Clark School Board of Visitors Member Jean-Luc Abaziou, and the company was founded by Professor Gil Blankenship (electrical and computer engineering). TSi is a graduate of Mtech’s Technology Advancement Program.
 Clark School-based companies achieved great successes at the University of Maryland $75K Business Plan Competition. OmniSpeech LLC, a company developing speech extraction technology for cellular and other communications, won the high technology category and $25,000. The company, founded by Clark School professor Carol Espy-Wilson (electrical and computer engineering, pictured), also won a $15,000 Warren Citrin Social Impact Award. CloudSolar won a $5,000 Warren Citrin Social Impact Award. The company is developing a system to capture solar thermal energy to heat swimming pools, with plans to enter additional markets. CloudSolar’s team includes: Michael Armani, a Ph.D. student in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering; Ramik Chopra, a Clark School alumnus from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and current UM MBA student; and Danny Lee, a 1989 UM alumnus. DoseSpot won the undergraduate category and $10,000, and a $5,000 Warren Citrin Social Impact Award. The company has developed an easy-to-use and easy-to-integrate Web-based medication prescribing system that connects medical technology vendors to the SureScripts electronic prescribing network. DoseSpot’s team includes Greg Waldstreicher, a Hinman CEOs Program undergraduate student in the Smith School's department of accounting and information assurance, and Gideon Platt.
 Kytoclot, a sprayable, blood-clotting foam developed by Remedium Technologies, Inc., a startup company based in the Clark School, won first prize and $25,000 in the Community Resilience and Homeland Security division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's 2010 Global Venture Challenge. Remedium was represented by its CEO, graduate student Matthew Dowling (Fischell Department of Bioengineering [BioE]), CTO and fellow graduate student Peter Thomas (BioE), and CMO and postdoctoral research associate Oluwatosin Ogunsola (Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering).
Martha Connolly, director of the Mtech Maryland Industrial Partnerships program at the Clark School, was given the President's Award at the Greater Baltimore Committee's fifth annual Bioscience Awards ceremony.
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