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[[File:Rowan UIF hosting.jpg|thumb|Rowan UIF Convention April 2017|link=Special:FilePath/Rowan_UIF_hosting.jpg]]
Greetings! My name is [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mdominikphd/ Mike Dominik], and I'm a Senior Lecturer faculty member at [https://www.rowan.edu/ Rowan University] in Glassboro, NJ, USA. My diverse academic background includes BS Electrical Engineering (Rutgers), MS Engineering Management of Technology (UPenn), MBA (Rowan), and PhD in Organizational Leadership (Eastern Univ). My career includes 15 years as an engineer with General Electric and Lockheed Martin, followed by 16 more years as a two-time technology entrepreneur (the software startup I co-founded called [https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130910005181/en/PTC-Expands-Technology-Deployment-Options-with-Acquisition-of-Hosting-Provider-NetIDEAS NetIDEAS was acquired by Parametric Technology Corporation]). I have proudly served as an educator at Rowan since 2016.
Rowan University is [https://today.rowan.edu/news/2021/02/rowan-named-fourth-fastest-growing.html the USA's fourth fastest-growing public research university], and has nearly doubled in size in the past decade, from around 10.000 students in 2010 to nearly 20,000 now. With that growth comes challenges - and therefore more OPPORTUNITY to be innovative and entrepreneurial! Our first Leadership Circle of Fellows was formed in 2016, and two more leadership circles followed in 2018 and 2019. COVID in 2020 caused us to put a hold on UIF for one year, but we are back in 2021 with another four students!