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<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt14px; line-height: 18px;">UIF Cheyne Westerman is a University Innovation Fellow from the Spring 2015cohort.</span>

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<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Cheyne Westerman is currently a student at Kettering University in Flint, Michigan. &nbsp;His major is mechanical engineering. &nbsp;However, he is really more passionate about his concentration and minors, rather than his major. &nbsp;He is undertaking a concentration in Innovation & Entrepreneurship, which is geared towards engineering. &nbsp;His dual minors are: 1) Business; &nbsp;2) Innovation & Entrepreneurship (which is geared towards business). &nbsp;He believes that being a mechanical engineering is so valuable because it is arguably the broadest of engineering degrees and he believes that to work in any position in a company which sells products, one must be able to understand the core ingredient of success: the product itself. &nbsp;His real goal in life is to land an upper management position at a great company or to create his own company with a group of intelligent individuals which brings great value to target customers.&nbsp;</span>

<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Cheyne is currently the President of Kettering University's Entrpreneur Society for the 2015 calendar year. &nbsp;Additionally, he is a member of the leadership circle for the group, which seeks out tasks to better the campus' innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem. &nbsp;An overview of Kettering Entrepreneur Society is the Society meets once a week and "grows" ideas among students. &nbsp;Essentially, anyone is invited to come and voice their ideas and as a group can discuss and give advice to such ideas. &nbsp;If certain students want to take their ideas to the next level, money or "grants" may be provided for the students to first engineer their product. &nbsp;If the prototyping goes well, it is possible There are also opportunities for funding through the students to pitch their business and marketing plans and receive a separate grant for the next step of the process: exposuregroup.</span>