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    • How to Run a Design Bootcamp
      Bucknell engineering professor Joe Tranquillo shares lessons he learned while hosting a 10-day workshop that gave engineering students an opportunity to tackle one of the NAE's Grand Challenges.

    • About Us
      The Epicenter is unleashing the entrepreneurial potential of undergraduate engineering students across the United States to create bold innovators with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to contribute to economic and societal prosperity.

    • Student Ambassadors Program
      The NCIIA and Epicenter help students across the country catalyze innovation on their home campuses.

    • Survey Results: Innovation & Entrepreneurship Living-Learning Programs
      The first national survey of innovation and entrepreneurship living-learning programs examined recruitment, operations, student ventures, programming and more.

    • Heart to Heart
      Carnegie Mellon engineering alumnus Doug Bernstein (right) is saving lives with his pediatric cardiology startup PecaLabs.


  • Stories

    Discover inspiring stories of entrepreneurship in engineering education from students and faculty across the U.S.!

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    Viterbi Startup Garage

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    A new technology accelerator program in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering offers funding, space and resources to student and alumni entrepreneurs. [...]

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  • Curriculum

    Epicenter Online Courses

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    Epicenter's series of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) aims to enhance the educational experience in entrepreneurship and innovation. [...]

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  • Event

    Lean LaunchPad Educators Program June 2013

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    The Lean LaunchPad Educators Program, hosted by the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), will challenge you to rethink your approach to teaching entrepreneurship. [...]

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  • Story

    A Deep Dive to Rethink Engineering Education

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    The Big Beacon is an Illinois not-for-profit organization catalyzing a global social movement to transform engineering education. [...]

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    Designing for Student Engagement

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    "Meeting the Needs of the 21st Century: Designing for Student Engagement" is one of two courses offered as part of Olin College's I2E2 Summer Institute, which provides participants with the opportunity to conceive and catalyze change in engineering education. [...]

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    Student Ambassadors Program

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    The NCIIA and Epicenter have joined forces to provide new opportunities for students across the country as part of the Student Ambassador program

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  • Story

    Entrepreneurs Build to Learn

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    Entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and private equity gurus shared important lessons learned with students from across the nation at the 10th Annual University Private Equity Summit in Utah. [...]

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  • Event

    Entrepreneurial LLC Roundtable

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    The Entrepreneurial Living-Learning Community Roundtable at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will give leaders of these communities the opportunity to gather for a shared discussion and networking opportunities. [...]

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    Becoming an Effective Educational Change Agent

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    "Facilitating Change that Sticks: Becoming an Effective Educational Change Agent" is one of two courses offered as part of Olin College's I2E2 Summer Institute, which provides participants with the opportunity to conceive and catalyze change in engineering education.  [...]

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  • Story

    Changing the Way We Use Technology

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    Catalin Voss tells the story of how he went from being a young programmer in Germany to a Stanford student and an Innovator in Residence at StartX. [...]

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  • Story

    Don't celebrate failure. Learn from it.

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    Rick Klau from the Google Ventures Startup Lab shared advice and kicked off an evening of small-group roundtable discussions with entrepreneurs and students at a recent event hosted by Google Ventures and Epicenter. [...]

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  • Story

    Designing Games for Education

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    Six teams competed to design new educational games in just one day at a recent event hosted by GameDesk and Epicenter at Stanford University. [...]

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  • Exercise

    How to Teach a Painstorming Exercise

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    Jonathan Weaver, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Detroit Mercy, shares an exercise he uses to help engineering students recognize opportunity and identify problems.
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  • Story

    Student-Driven Innovation

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    Kurt Thoroughman from Washington University in St. Louis tells a story about a group of young engineers at his school and considers the ways faculty can support student innovation. [...]

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    Empowering Student Entrepreneurs

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    Brian Kidwell, president of San Diego State University's Entrepreneur Society, is helping to promote entrepreneurship across disciplines on his campus. [...]

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  • Event

    E-Bootcamp 2013

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    Immerse yourself in the heart of Silicon Valley entrepreneurship from April 18 to April 21 at Stanford University. [...]

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    Penn State Ultimate Trader Challenge

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    Join Penn State's Ultimate Trader Challenge to acquire, through trades, the item with the greatest possible value in eight weeks. [...]

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    Nurturing Curiosity and Creativity

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    Paula Gangopadhyay shares how The Henry Ford museums inspire innovation by nurturing curiosity and creativity in children.
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    MIT Global Startup Workshop (GSW)

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    The MIT GSW is the world’s premier workshop dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship and building entrepreneurial ecosystems globally. [...]

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  • Story

    Offering Engineers a Chance to Build Businesses

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    Venture For America is a two-year fellowship that places talented graduates at emerging start-ups and early-stage companies in lower-cost cities. [...]

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    A Vast Ocean of Opportunities

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    Nate Newman's pursuit of innovation has led him to obtain patents, write a successful grant proposal, and found an engineering company to develop marine ecosystem monitoring technology—all before graduating from high school. [...]

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  • Exercise

    Innovation Challenges iBook

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    The free iBook "Innovation Challenges: Mind Workouts for Teams" describes methods for teaching and promoting creativity, innovation and the entrepreneurial mindset.

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  • Story

    A Born Innovator

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    Ian Cinnamon was born to make things, and he's had the opportunity to do so with some of MIT's brightest minds at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship.

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  • Story

    Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

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    Entrepreneurship is becoming a way of life at the University of Virginia. Five members of the growing entrepreneurial ecosystem describe how.

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    A Space for Design and Engineering

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    Ph.D. student Cory Hixson describes Virginia Tech's design-focused living-learning community.

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  • Story

    1,000 Pitches and 1,000 Light Bulbs

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    Scott Christopher from the University of Michigan explains how a truckload of light bulbs came to represent 1,000 Pitches, the world’s largest student-run elevator pitch competition.

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  • Story

    Teaching Entrepreneurship in Engineering

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    Babs Carryer speaks to the importance of engineers learning entrepreneurship and shares a story from her years teaching at Carnegie Mellon University.

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  • Story

    A New Direction in Education

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    Carl Shan from the University of California, Berkeley, describes how his school's chapter of the Kairos Society has inspired and impacted his national education venture.

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    A World of Technology Entrepreneurship

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    John Melas-Kyriazi describes how Stanford University's Mayfield Fellows Program and StartX opened his eyes to the world of technology entrepreneurship.

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  • Story

    Planting a SEED

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    Elliot Roth's pumpkin-explosion business planted a seed for founding a new engineering and design club at Virginia Commonwealth University.

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  • Tool

    How to Build an eBoard

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    Student Ambassador Sean Maroni created a giant triangular whiteboard as an interactive promotional tool for North Carolina State University’s Entrepreneurship Initiative.

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    Epicenter Retreat

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    Epicenter's retreat gathered faculty and industry experts from across the country with the goal of infusing entrepreneurship and innovation into undergraduate engineering education.

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    A Taste for New Ventures

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    Starting a salsa company from scratch whetted Patrick Schwager’s appetite for entrepreneurship.

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  • Story

    Wise Words

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    A chance meeting with Google's Larry Page inspired Stanford engineering student Lauryn Isford to take risks and embrace the entrepreneurial spirit.

     
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    Free Online Entrepreneurship Courses

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    There are plenty of courses to keep those with an interest in entrepreneurship busy this fall. We’ve rounded up the details on nine free online entrepreneurship courses.

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  • Story

    Entrepreneurs Are Artists

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    JD Wagner asks "What is the difference between entrepreneurs and artists?" and shares his activities at Oakland University.

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    From Real Estate to Tech

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    In four years, Julian Jung from Northeastern University went from the bottom of the real estate food chain to millions in sales and a very personal new tech project.

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    Built by and for Entrepreneurs

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    Chase Harmon of Stanford University shares two opportunities created by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs: E2.0 and Stanford's new eDorm.

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    The Entrepreneur as a Hacker

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    Hongwen Henry Kang from Carnegie Mellon sees similarities between hackers and entrepreneurs: they both solve problems, take advantage of opportunity, and neither ask for permission.

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  • Advice

    Selecting a Startup Accelerator

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    What do you look for when selecting a startup accelerator? Joel Hestness of 3 Day Startup shares some advice.

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    An Experiential Education

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    The Experiential Classroom clinic at Oklahoma State University provides faculty with the tools they need to teach entrepreneurship.

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    Making Learning Social

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    Daniel Dalton, a recent graduate of UC San Diego, is making learning social with Yodel, his new social matching platform for students.

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    The Digital Frontier

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    Zachary Sperske from the University of California, Santa Barbara provides opportunities for entrepreneurial engineering students who want to explore the digital frontier.

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    Coding and Community

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    Momchil Tomov builds community at Princeton University with events like HackPrinceton and strives for inter-college collaboration around entrepreneurship.

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    Learning To Lead

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    Meghan Lang of the University of Michigan-Dearborn describes her journey from shy sophomore to president of the university’s chapter of the American Marketing Association.

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    IDEA Accelerator

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    Christopher Wolfel of Northeastern University, CEO of IDEA: Northeastern’s Venture Accelerator, strives to make the program the best of its kind in the world.

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    Challenges as Opportunities

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    Jeremy Fiance, co-founder of the UC Berkeley chapter of The Kairos Society, believes that global challenges are entrepreneurs' greatest opportunities.

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    Building a VirtualU

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    Caroline Pugh of Virginia Tech is helping to change the way we shop for clothes online. Caroline Pugh Virginia Tech Class of 2014 Major: Business Information

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    Engineering Change in Uganda

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    Erin Fleurant and Misaki Nozawa are co-presidents of the Tufts University chapter of Engineers Without Borders. Erin Fleurant Class of 2013 Major: Child Development and

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    A Duke Entrepreneur

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    Vidhan Agrawal Duke University Class of 2012 Majors: Biomedical Engineering and Economics When I first came to Duke University in the Fall semester of 2008

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    Return the Inspiration

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    Taylor Harvey of the Illinois Institute of Technology strives to unite Chicago’s student and professional communities of entrepreneurs.

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  • Profile

    Living Innovation

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    Student residents of the Innovation Living-Learning Community at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign live entrepreneurship 24/7, taking advantage of workshops, resources and a creative work space.

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    Innovation Tournament

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    Engineering students can learn how to leverage resources and take actions to create value, by participating in an innovation tournament. An innovation tournament is a

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    A Purpose Beyond the Profit

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    Tyler Whitsett University of Michigan-Dearborn Class of 2013 Major: Supply Chain Management As I enter into my senior year at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, and

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    Influencer @ Northeastern

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    Matt Bilotti is pursuing a double major in entrepreneurship and marketing at Northeastern University. He is president of the Northeastern Entrepreneurs Club, which boasts 100

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    Solving Real Problems

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    Purdue Ph.D student Sean Connell is an entrepreneurial engineer who is developing an innovative approach to improving wound care. As the co-founder of MedTric Biotech,

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    Engineering is Innovation

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    Within Humboldt State University’s Environmental Resources Engineering Program, Lonny Grafman helps his students apply their technical education and skills to tackling real-world challenges. Here he

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  • Story

    Design in Engineering

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    Olin College is committed to design playing an important role in the education of their engineering students. Here Assistant Professors Lawrence Neeley and Mark Chang

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    Skills for Industry

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    Deloitte Managing Partner Teresa Briggs describes the types of skills engineers must possess to be successful in industry. These not only include the ability to

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    Engineers as Designers

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    To explore ways to solve the pain points of undergraduate engineering students, the Epicenter hosted a design challenge workshop as part of Stanford University’s Entrepreneurship Week activities. 

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1125457. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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