ECE Professors Neil Goldsman and Martin Peckerar were honored as the inaugural recipients of the University System of Maryland (USM) Board of Regents Entrepreneur of the Year Award for FlexEl, a novel, thin-film battery derived from their efforts in researching wireless sensor networks. Learn more here.
Remedium Technologies Inc., a medical device company founded by Clark School alumnus Matthew Dowling (Ph.D., BioE '10), and Professor Srinivasa Raghavan (ChBE), was awarded a $500,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Science Foundation to test the company's sprayable foam for rapidly halting bleeding caused by traumatic injuries. Learn more here.
Professor Christopher Davis (ECE) created an electronic home plate (EHP) with inventor and Terp dad Gerald Spessard, research associate John Rzasa, retired engineer Leroy Chamberlain, Jr., and aspiring optical engineer Jakob Scharmer. The low-cost baseball home plate contains electronic and opto-electric components, and uses LED lights to detect and indicate the presence, position, and speed of a baseball passing over the plate. Learn more here.
Three teams including engineering faculty and students were finalists in the Inaugural Business Model Challenge. Learn more here. Diagnostic anSERS, the Fischell Department of Bioengineering (BioE)-based startup company founded by graduate students Eric Hoppmann and Sean Virgile, both advised by BioE and Institute for Systems Research assistant professor Ian White, took 3rd place and won the UMD Prize (awarded to the startup utilizing the most campus resources) in the final round of the Cupid's Cup, the national business competition held by the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. Learn more here. The University of Maryland's Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS) announced that it is awarding $4.7 million to Maryland university researchers to help 16 local companies develop technology products. Learn more here.
Tauros Engineering was selected as a winner in Harvard Business School’s 17th Annual New Venture Competition (NVC). The Tauros team includes Alison Flatau, Clark School professor of aerospace engineering and associate dean for research, undergraduate Tyler Flatau, and Harvard Business School MBA candidate Adrian Ross. Learn more here.
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