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=== E&J Gallo Management Program ===

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There is no formal emphasis, major, or minor available at UC Merced in the field of entrepreneurship. However, UC Merced offers a course in Entrepreneurship (MGMT 180) under the E&J Gallo Management Program which encourages students to experience the creative process behind creating new products, crafting business plans, and delivering pitches. Starting in spring semester 2014, management and economics students from this program have begun collaborating with engineering students in the Capstone program. They will help Capstone groups to monetize and market their products.

=== Innovation and Design Clinic - Capstone ===

Capstone Design / Innovation Design Clinic (ME 170) is a course in which engineering students form teams and compete against each other as part of a competition.The Innovation Design Clinic, aka Capstone, is somewhat similar to the Engineering Service Learning program except ~~the program~~ that Capstone is more structured--engineering students are placed into teams that are tasked with creating specific projects. Together , they create a solution to a problem that has been designated to them by either industry or by ~~the~~ courseadvisors. Teams are ~~cross disciplinary in the sense that~~ interdisciplinary; they ~~have~~ include engineers, but also students from management and ~~business~~ economics backgrounds ~~integrated into their respective team~~. Twenty-three of the best teamsare then chosen to compete in~~then presented to the general public and investors at the annual Innovation~~ Innovate to Grow ~~event~~.

=== Foster Family Center for Engineering Service Learning ===

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Under the School of Engineering is , the Foster Family Center for Engineering Service Learning program~~, which~~ allows student groups to exercise their creative problem-solving abilities and project management skills while earning units. Student teams partner with community stakeholders under faculty advisors and exercise a great level of independence.  Student teams are generally self-organized. Though their respective projects are guided by faculty advisors, in general they determine their own course of action, organization, and short-term goals~~. Student teams are generally self-organized~~. This forces them to think innovatively and run their projects like entrepreneurs. Students from all majors are welcome to join the program, if they choose. At the end of the semester, the three best Engineering Service Learning teams will be participating in the Innovate to Grow competition.~~~~

=== Mobile App Challenge - CITRIS ===

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The Mobile App Challenge is a competition hosted by CITRIS, the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society. CITRIS is an institution at UC campuses that helps groundbreaking research obtain funding and helps to incubate research into startups. Students form teams to develop mobile apps that can solve a variety of issues to their choosing. The Software Engineering course (CSE 120) in the School of Engineering is required to participate in the challenge. Teams compete for a cash prize in front of a panelist of judges--the top 5 teams of the Mobile App Challenge then move on to compete in Innovate to Grow.

=== Flash Talks - Career Services Center ===

This is a pitch event where students have 20 minutes to present 20 slides based on a project that they’re a part of--which is more geared towards those students already participating in Mobile App Challenge, Engineering Service Learning, and Capstone but can be more broadly applied to students with any significant project that they wish to present. Student researchers ~~may~~ are also ~~find themselves as a part of the project~~welcome. This event is meant to help students exercise their presentation ~~giving~~ delivery skills and to reward those who are successful in both their presentation and their respective projects. Students compete against one another for a cash prize.

=== Entrepreneurial Seminar and Pitchfest Competition - TESUM ===

TESUM stands for The Entrepreneurs Society at UC Merced, which is a student-run RCO (Registered Club Organization) ~~which is~~ hosting a pitch competition for students where entrepreneurs can pitch their ideas to a panel of judges. The judges are made up of entrepreneurs, IP lawyers and angel investors. The Entrepreneurial Seminar and Pitch fest competition also hosts workshops which are intended to support student entrepreneurs. The competition was partially funded by the student government at UC Merced, ASUCM (Associated Students of UC Merced).

= Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship =

== Center for Information Technology in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) ==

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CITRIS is a program that is headquartered at Berkeley, but has centers at Davis, Merced, and Santa Cruz ~~University of California~~ campuses. CITRIS is an institution at UC campuses that helps groundbreaking research obtain funding and helps to incubate research into startups. CITRIS has four primary initiatives: Energy, Democracy, Infrastructure, and Health. Its mission is to benefit each initiative with further integration with information technologyby helping to fund research related to its initiatives. Through these four initiatives, CITRIS provides the support necessary to help provide solutions for California and the global community at large. CITRIS is also responsible for sponsoring the Mobile App Challenge, where the top 5 teams ~~moving into~~ move on to the Innovate to Grow competition.

=== MESA Lab ===

== Office of Technology Transfer ==

This Office works to inform faculty about proper methods ~~ensure~~ ensuring intellectual property rights during the disclosure of inventions or patent-worthy discoveries. It also ~~assist the~~ assists faculty ~~to create~~ in creating a record of invention (ROI) statement, filing the ROI with the UCOP database, and conducts the contractual negotiations with industrial partners or venture capitalists. ~~Secondly, the OTT works~~ Its second primary function is to work closely with UCOP Office of IAS accounting staff to assist with financial record keeping, accounts receivable and accounts payable for tech transfer transactions.

= Regional and Economical Development Efforts =

== Blum Center - Global California: The World at Home ==

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The Blum Center at UC Merced is an extension of the original Blum Center from Berkeley, only recently founded from a seed grant. There are also centers at UC Davis, and UCLA. The Blum Center will have a specific focus on the Central Valley’s future prosperity. By utilizing interdisciplinary expertise from students with all different backgrounds, the Blum Center will be able to exercise a wide variety of projects in both Engineering Service Learning and Capstone projects. The Blum Center provides a unique perspective because of its location and high concentration of first generation college students.

=== Engineers for a Sustainable World - KivaGreen ===

The KivaGreen project falls under the class titled ‘Engineers for a Sustainable World’ and is partnered with the nonprofit organization, Kiva. This project falls under Engineering Service Learning. This project has two primary goals: to function as a student trustee group for a subsidiary of Kiva, KivaZip, and to develop an environmental assessment tool for Kiva, a “Green Badge.” The student trustees endorse borrowers to be profiled on Kiva’s website where they can obtain crowd-sourced zero-interest microloans. The Green Badge is being adapted to include U.S. and global environmental standards, whose ultimate goal is to be used ubiquitously from all trustees to contribute to Kiva’s existing badge system. The badges are awarded to deserving borrowers and are meant to highlight certain aspects of businesses that may sway otherwise reluctant lenders.

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