Organization:University Innovation Fellows Program
The University Innovation Fellows are part of a national movement to ensure that students gain the necessary attitudes, skills and knowledge required for them to compete in the economy of the future. These student leaders from schools around the country work with their peers to catalyze even greater levels of innovation and entrepreneurship activity on their campuses.
The program is run by the National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter), funded by the National Science Foundation as a partnership between Stanford University and VentureWell, formerly known as NCIIA. University Innovation Fellows call on engineering students and their peers to dream, design and deliver innovations that solve real-world problems.
Learn more at the University Innovation Fellows website: http://dreamdesigndeliver.org
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University Innovation Fellow Happenings
What's Your Moonshot?
The original "Moonshot" was just that. Man daring to go where no man had gone before- the moon. As a species we did not have the technology or the know how to step foot on the moon and yet through ingenuity and dedication two countries started a race to accomplish just that. Moonshot Thinking is exactly what it sounds like, taking a seemingly impossible task and setting out to accomplish it. Mark Twain had a great quote about accomplishing such feats, “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” Being a UI Fellow is a unique opportunity in that many of us have our own “Moonshots” and by surrounding ourselves with others that are just as passionate about their Moonshots we can set out to change the world.
Here is the link to the Moonshot Page- What's_Your_Moonshot?
Monthly Meetup
The monthly meetup is a bluejeans meeting that is set-up for the 3rd Thursday of every month. The intent of this meeting is to allow UI-Fellows to disseminate information about projects they are working on, have completed or are considering. These meetings will typically have 3-4 presenters and are structured to be 5-10 minute presentations with time alloted for question and answers after each.
Here is the link to the past videos and topics to come - Monthly_meetup
Spring 2014 Fellows
- Jorge Sanchez, Arizona State University
- Ali Djire, Solomon Alolga & Ability Kakama, Berea College
- Nicholas Sinai, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo
- Lionel Cross, Clark Atlanta University
- Corey Brugh, Colorado School of Mines
- Nicholas Breeser, Cooper Union
- Malik Oliver, Fayetteville State University
- Bipol Alam, Florida State University, Panama City
- Benjamin Riddle, Furman University
- Alexandra Flohr, Megna Saha & Rachel Ford, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Howard Brown, Hampton University
- Attiyah Lanier, Howard University
- Jevon Grant, Jackson State University
- Lauren Distler, Fletcher Grow, Jessie Gabris, Kaitlyn Pirrello, & Sarah Rozman, James Madison University
- Hunter Casbeer & Saheb Kapoor, Kettering University
- Brandon DuQuette, Michigan State University
- David Shull, Michigan Tech
- Jaime Arribas Starkey-El, Morgan State University
- Mauricio Garcia, NMSU
- Natalia von Windheim, North Carolina State University
- Jacob Keasbey, Norwich University
- John Herbert, Ohio University
- Meghan Olson, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Enis Cirak, Tennessee Technological University
- Gurlovleen Rathore, Texas A & M University
- Kim Ma, Maria Garcia Quesada & Thien Ninh, Tulane University
- Myisha Moore, Tuskegee university
- Hristina Milojevic, Union College
- Eduardo Rojas-Flores & Nicholas Fong, University of California Merced
- Caleb Carr, University of Colorado Denver
- Atin Mittra & Meenu Singh, University of Maryland College Park
- Jade-Elizabeth Overton, University of Maryland Eastern Shore
- Jacob Hulme, James Abdallah, Kevin Desjardins & Ana Gouveia, University of Massachusetts Lowell
- Amanda Ejups, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
- Lauren Abston & Ryan Phillips, UUniversity of Oklahoma
- Claire Sakaguchi, University of Oregon
- Kevin Bastien, University of Portland
- Anish Dalal, Dasha Tyshlek, Kelly Thomas & Rachel Smith, University of Virginia
- Robert Salamon, Alex Francis & Carlton Reeves, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
- Abbey Buckenheimer, Villanova University
- Ulysses Knight, Virginia State University
- Amber Graviet, Washington State University
- Jhonatan Nagasako, Western New England University
- Chigozie Dike, Xavier University of Louisiana
- Chinmay Jaju, Yale University
Fall 2013 Fellows
- Valerie Sherry, University of Maryland College Park
- Michael Tantum, Wake Forest University
- Terrence Agbi, Polytechnic Institute of New York University
- Chen Cui, University of Iowa
- Andrew Dalman, North Dakota State University
- Derek Dashti, Tulane University
- Mary Wilcox, Arizona State University Tempe
- Nathan Smialek, University of Pittsburgh
- Brian Rhindress, University of Pittsburgh
- Christopher Woodward, Western Michigan University
- Randy Stockman, Florida Institute of Technology
- Dean Tate, Texas A & M University
- Graham Leslie, Texas A & M University
- Yifan Ge, Bucknell University
- Ellery Addington-White, Beloit College
- Jennifer Mayo, Oklahoma State University
- Katelyn Stenger, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
- Nolan Nicholson, University of Nevada, Reno
- Breanne Przestrzelski, Clemson University
- Brittany Wouden, Washington State University Vancouver
- Mridul Bhandari, Pennsylvania State University
Current Fellows Trained Prior to Fall 2013
- Viviana Tran, Washington State University (since Spring 2013)
- Ian Hamilton, Purdue University (since Spring 2013)
- Peter Hollender, Duke University (since Spring 2013)
- Jeffrey Ackerman, Purdue University (since Spring 2013)
- Gregory Wilson, University of Georgia (since Spring 2013)
- Benjamin Johnston, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (since Spring 2013)
- Karuna Relwani, University of Pittsburgh (since Fall 2012)
- Elliot Roth, Virginia Commonwealth University (since Fall 2012)
- Jared Karp, University of California Berkeley (since Fall 2012)
- Adam Eastman, University of California Berkeley (since Fall 2012)
- Blake Marggraff, University of Washington St. Louis (since Fall 2012)
- Kevin Mobolade, Mercer University (since Fall 2012)
- Sean Maroni, North Carolina State University (since Summer 2012)
- Kinshuk Mitra, Ohio State University (since Summer 2012)
- Jack Goodwin, University of California San Diego (since Summer 2012)
- Sharang Phadke, Cooper Union (since Summer 2012)
- Fletcher Richman, University of Colorado Boulder (since Summer 2012)
- Tayler Swanson, Rochester Institute of Technology (since Summer 2012)
- Lucas Arzola, University of California Davis (since Summer 2012)
Former University Innovation Fellows
- Christina Oelsner, Wake Forest University (2012-2013)
- Andrew Pennington, Eastern Kentucky University (2012-2013)
- Jeremy Klaben, University of Michigan (2012-2013)
- John Oliver, Pennsylvania State University (2012-2013)
- Deniz Pamukcu, Lehigh University (2012-2013)
- Nishant Ganesh Kumar, Johns Hopkins University (2012-2013)
- Zineb Laraki, Stanford University (2012-2013)
- Ala'a Siam, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2012-2013)
- Michelle Zwernemann, John Hopkins University (2012-2013)
- Michel Rivas, Florida International (2012-2013)
- Wilson Kurian, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (2012-2013)
- Amanda Ruppert, Bucknell University (2012-2013)
- Andrew Batz, Virginia Commonwealth University (Spring 2013)
- Alexandra Halbeck, Tufts University (Fall 2012-Spring 2013)
- Tyler Salem, University of Central Florida (Fall 2012)
- Isaac Sanchez, University of Texas Austin (Summer 2012)
- Dmitry Timmerman, Columbia University (2011-2012)
- Jade Patterson, Washington State University (2011-2012)
- Jared Goodner, University of Southern California (2011-2012)
- Jennifer Villalobos, Oregon State University (2011-2012)
- Jerrid Matthews, University of California, Los Angeles (2011-2012)
- Samantha Smith, New York University (2011-2012)
- Joseph McMahon, Boston University (2011-2012)
- Lucy Lan, Wake Forest University (2011-2012)
- Mariel Bolhouse, University of Texas at Austin (2011-2012)
- Omoju Miller, University of California Berkeley (2011-2012)
- Mariana Prieto, Art Center College of Design (2011-2012)
- Danielle Helton, University of Tennessee Health Science Center (2011-2012)
- Mayank Yadav, Columbia University (2010-2011)
- Trevor Owens, New York University (2010-2011)
- Steven Faulkner, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2010-2011)
- David Mims, Rice University (2010-2011)
- William Oelsner, Wake Forest University (2010-2011)
- Eden Full, Princeton University (2010-2011)
- Roland Fomundam, Northeastern University (2010-2011)
- Swapnil Chaturvedi, Northwestern University (2010-2011)
- Margaret Finch, Duke University (2010-2011)
- Juan Carlo Pascua, University of Nevada Las Vegas (2010-2011)
- Alex Sposito, University of Maryland (2010-2011)
- Adam Smith, Portland State University (2010-2011)
- Mohamed Ali Niang, Temple University (2010-2011)