Archive for April 2016
The Sutardja Center welcomes Susan Giesecke as its new Director of Global Engagement
Susan Giesecke recently joined the team at SCET as the Director of Global Engagement. Susan is responsible for building partnerships with international universities and organizations interested in engaging with the Center. Susan came to SCET from Berkeley’s campus wide Global Engagement Office (GEO) where she was the Director of international Protocol. At GEO, she was…
Read MoreConnecting People to Their Surroundings Again – Newton Lecture Series Last Week!
This week, the Newton Lecture Series featured two of Cal’s alumni and founders of Building Robotics, Andrew Krioukov and Stephen Dawson-Haggerty. Building Robotics is a startup based in the Bay Area that creates intelligent software systems for office buildings. The focus of the company is to use its products, such as Comfy, to ‘bring dynamic indoor…
Read MorePhilDev, USAID, SCET hold 3-day bootcamp for Filipino professors
A three-day bootcamp to train Filipino engineering faculty in entrepreneurship pedagogy was held from March 28 to March 30 at the Asian Institute of Management, Makati City, Philippines. The event, which was sponsored by the Philippine S&T Development Foundation (PhilDev), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and…
Read MoreStudents Organize First Annual IEOR Graduate Student Symposium
This article was originally published at UC Berkeley IEOR. Today, students came together for the first annual IEOR Graduate Student Symposium. PhD students presented on a broad array of topics representative of the many areas where IEOR tools are applicable including supply chains, energy systems, robotics, health care, neuroimaging, and others. This first symposium was initiated and…
Read MoreThe battle is real: AR vs VR
Both augmented and virtual reality have existed for some decades – but the attention that they are getting from the market and the threat they are posing to the mainstream economy is now real. Recognizing the difference between the two is necessary: Augmented reality is the blending of virtual reality and real life, as developers…
Read MoreNASA Startup Challenge: A Call for Berkeley Entrepreneurs
The National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) is partnering with the Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) to launch “Startup NASA”, a competition-based program that gives the opportunity to startups around the country to license NASA technologies with no up-front payment. The Center for Advancing Innovation has been closely working with NASA and its portfolio of…
Read MoreWelcome to Summer Abroad 2016 Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Europe!
We would like to welcome all 92 students who have been accepted into our Summer Abroad Program! Every year UC Berkeley students travel to French Riviera to participate in the most fun, dynamic, and intensive Summer Abroad Program. This year, The European Innovation Academy will host 800 participants from over 70 countries in…
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