The Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education

Three Failures and a (Big) Success: The Evolution of a Startup CEO

2009-12-09T22:30:00Z

Speaker: Brian O'Kelley '99, CEO of AppNexus

Date: Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Time: 5:30 p.m.

Location: Friend Center Convocation Room (113)
(corner of Olden and William Street)

Other: Reception to follow

As the second lecture this fall in the Keller Center's Princeton-Jumpstart Lecture Series on Technology Entrepreneurship, Brian O’Kelley '99, CEO of AppNexus, will give a lecture titled “"Three Failures and a (Big) Success: The Evolution of a Startup CEO" at Princeton University in the Friend Center Convocation Room at 5:30 p.m. on December 9, 2009. A reception and recruiting networking session will follow.

O'Kelley, who also co-founded AppNexus, will talk about the failures of his first three companies (one based on a business plan written in Princeton University Professor Ed Zschau's High-Tech Entrepreneurship class) and how the lessons he learned fueled the success of Right Media. In July 2007, Yahoo! acquired Right Media for $850MM. O'Kelley will also discuss some of the challenges he faces in his latest venture, AppNexus, and talk about what it's like to work with Internet luminaries like Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, Ron Conway, and Josh Kopelman. After the talk, Brian and a few other Princeton Tigers from AppNexus will be available to discuss career opportunities for Princeton students at AppNexus and other New York area startups.

The event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, Jumpstart New Jersey Angel Network, and Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP.

Social Entrepreneurship: A Rising Generation Changing the World

2009-11-19T21:30:00Z

Speaker: Prof. Gordon Bloom

Date: November 19, 2009

Time: 4:30 p.m.

Location: Carl A. Fields Center, 58 Prospect Avenue (map)

Other: Reception to follow in the Fireside Lounge

Gordon Bloom, Dean’s Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship in the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education will give a lecture titled “Social Entrepreneurship: A Rising Generation Changing the World” on Thursday, November 19 at 4:30 p.m. at the new Carl A. Fields Center. Select students from Professor Bloom’s class, A Collaboratory for Social Entrepreneurship (SE Lab), will also present their entrepreneurial endeavors during the lecture. See pages 6-7 in the November 9, 2009 issue of the Princeton University Bulletin for more details about Professor Bloom and the SE Lab.

Inaugurated in 2007–08, and made possible by the generous support of several Princeton alumni, the Dean’s Visiting Professorship in Entrepreneurship is a key element of Princeton’s broadening scope of entrepreneurship education in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. The goal of this position is to bring a unique and creative educational experience to both undergraduate and graduate students from all disciplines. Candidates are selected according to their scholarship and teaching ability, and their track record of innovations and innovative teaching methods as applied to entrepreneurship.

About Gordon Bloom

Gordon Bloom is founder of the Social Entrepreneurship Collaboratory (SE Lab) at Stanford & Harvard Universities and is the Dean’s Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship for 2009-2010. He teaches about the design, creation and development of innovative social change organizations. The SE Lab is a Silicon Valley and technology–influenced social venture incubator, which takes an interdisciplinary approach to global problem solving. It was launched at Stanford in 2001-2002, while Gordon taught on Stanford’s Public Policy Program faculty, and served as a faculty affiliate at the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a Program Officer at Stanford’s Institute for International Studies. At Harvard, Gordon has taught on the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) faculty in the Leadership and Management Group, and as a principal of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, and as a faculty advisor and affiliate of the Center for Public Leadership, where in 2005 he was one of the founding faculty of the $10M Harvard Reynolds Foundation Fellowship in Social Entrepreneurship. Many of the talented students & fellows in his Harvard and Stanford SE Labs have won the top awards of prestigious idea and business plan competitions, including those at Stanford, Harvard, and MIT.

Gordon is an author of the edited volume Social Entrepreneurship: New Models of Sustainable Social Change (A. Nicholls, ed., Oxford University Press, 2006/2008) and is a founding member of the Oxford/Ashoka led University Network for Social Entrepreneurship. Gordon’s interest in entrepreneurship is informed by work in both the private and nonprofit sectors in the U.S. (New York, Cambridge, Palo Alto), Europe (London, Paris) and Asia (Hong Kong), as CEO of a medical technology company and in international strategy consulting. He holds degrees from Harvard (AB) magna cum laude in History & Science, Stanford (MBA) with an award in Public Management and Columbia (MFA) where he held a Shubert Fellowship.

Internship Opportunities for Engineering Students

2009-11-16T21:30:00Z

Interested in hearing about your internship options for the summer? The Keller Center is partnering with Career Services, the International Internship Program (IIP) and Princeton in Asia (PIA) over the next few weeks to highlight summer internship opportunities for engineering students. The focus will be on both domestic and international opportunities for engineers. Below is a list of coming events which may be useful for you as you make plans for summer 2010.

Summer Planning for Engineers

Description: Are you wondering what you can do this summer to help prepare you for your career goals? Learn about various programs and opportunities, the search process and strategies through this workshop. Some employers offering internships will be present at this event so come prepared with a resume!
Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 @ 4:30 p.m.
Venue: Friend Center 108
Hosted By: Career Services in conjunction with the Keller Center

Past Internship Events

Engineering Internship Panel
Description: Come hear what other engineering students did this summer! Listen to your fellow classmates share their internship experiences.
Date: Monday, November 16, 2009 @ 4:30 p.m.
Venue: Friend Center 108
Hosted By: Career Services in conjunction with the Keller Center

Engineering International Internship Information Session
Description: Come hear about international internship opportunities for engineering students. Some employers offering internships will be present at this event so come prepared with a resume! Light refreshments will be served at 4:15 p.m.
Date: November 9, 2009 @ 4:30 p.m.
Venue: E225 EQuad
Hosted By: The Keller Center in conjunction with IIP and PIA

New Course for Spring 2010: Technology & Society

2009-11-16T20:30:00Z

A new course titled "Technology and Society" will be offered in Spring 2010 through the Keller Center and cross-listed with the History and Sociology departments. Technology and Society (EGR/HIS/SOC 277) has been developed in collaboration with the Departments of History and Sociology with support from the 250th Anniversary Fund for Innovation in Undergraduate Education. Faculty involved with the development of the course include Michael Gordin and Angela Creager (History), Betsy Armstrong (Sociology and WWS) and Sharad Malik (Electrical Engineering and the Keller Center). Professor Michael Gordin will teach the spring offering of Technology and Society, with lectures to be held on Mondays and Wednesdays from 1:30-2:20 p.m. Read the November 11, 2009 blog entry in the EQN.

The mission of the Keller Center is to educate leaders for a technology-driven society. The center is creating new courses and strengthening existing ones that go beyond purely technical subjects to provide students a broader understanding of the global economic, environmental and cultural forces that shape and are shaped by technology.

This introductory course on “Technology and Society” will present the overarching issues and principles related to the intersection of technology and society. We hope to provide students with the intellectual tools needed - a “set of lenses” that will help them view the issues this area poses. Technology and society are unthinkable without each other — each provides the means and framework in which the other develops. To explore this dynamic, the course investigates a wide array of questions on the interaction between technology, society, politics, and economics, emphasizing the themes of innovation and maturation, systems and regulation, risk and failure, and ethics and expertise. Specific topics covered include nuclear power and waste, genetically-modified organisms, regulation of the internet, medical mistakes, intellectual property, the financial crisis of 2008, and the post-fossil-fuels economy.

EGR/HIS/SOC 277 is open to all undergraduate students on campus; a key element of the course is its appeal to students on both sides of the technology fence. We expect this course to attract technology students who have an interest in the societal application of their discipline; as well as students in other disciplines who are interested in seeking a technology education component that will help them understand and deal with technological issues in their lives and careers.

Technology & Society Home Page Tile

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iPhone Apps: The New High-Tech Gold Rush?

2009-11-12T22:00:00Z

Five developers share their stories.

To kick off the Keller Center's Princeton-Jumpstart Lecture Series on Technology Entrepreneurship this fall, a panel discussion on iPhone applications was held at Princeton University in the Friend Center Auditorium at 5:30 p.m. on November 12. A reception followed in the Friend Center Atrium.

Read the article on Princeton' School of Engineering and Applied Science website.

To read a blog on the event, please click here.

The panel addressed many questions. With over 75,000 applications in the Apple App store and over a billion downloads, is the iPhone app market the new high-tech gold rush? There are apps for everything-but which app categories are hot? How does a developer get started? What are the relevant business models for guaranteeing success? Developers working on communication, gaming, social networking and health apps spoke to a large audience.

The event, was open to the public and sponsored by the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, Jumpstart New Jersey Angel Network, and Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP.

The Panelists

David Lieb, CEO of Bump Technologies
Bump Technologies makes a universal interface for device-to-device communication. Bump iPhone app users can exchange phone number, other people's contact information, or photos by simply bumping two phones together. Read the news item.

Sharon Fordham, Chairperson of the Board of Skyworks
Skyworks® recently entered the iPhone market. The company has seen rapid consumer acceptance of its games in the fast growing Apple App store. The company's games have quickly arisen to the Top 100 games of their respective segments in the App Store.

Ken Kay, CEO of ici
ici is a publishing, social network, and blogging platform for location-aware devices such as the iPhone/iTouch. ici enables mobile people to share interests and activities using the mobile device as the viewing and input device. Unlike other messaging tools where location is an afterthought, ici is specifically designed for delivering useful information to mobile communities.

Matthew Connor ’11, Co-Founder of iAbetics
iAbetics offers a mobile Diabetes management application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Islet™ 2.0 allows quick and easy recording of blood glucose readings, carbohydrate intake, insulin injections, and exercise, as well as email export and graphical analysis. Read the news item about Matthew Connor's $100,000 award to develop his app.

Harry Schmidt, Developer of Lexidium and Lexiphanes
Harry Schmidt is a Ph.D. candidate in Classics at Princeton University. In addition to his primary research interest, ancient Greek tragedy, Harry is at the forefront of computational philology, a new discipline that uses modern computer technology to help solve ancient literary problems. In addition to Lexidium and Lexiphanes, his Latin and Greek dictionary tools for the iPhone, Harry is currently researching the use of optical character recognition to build a large machine-readable database of classical texts for the public domain. A program to automatically analyze the complex meter of Greek and Latin poetry is in the works.

About the Princeton-Jumpstart Lecture Series

The Keller Center continues its partnership with the Jumpstart NJ Angel Network, a private, member-led group that makes "angel" investments in early-stage technology companies in the Mid-Atlantic region -- to share knowledge on technology entrepreneurship. Through the partnership, distinguished business leaders are invited to speak to the Princeton and local business communities. The lectures and forums are tailored to help an audience of new, potential, and seasoned entrepreneurs create and nurture new ventures. Events are followed by a reception where students, faculty, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and angel investors meet informally to discuss ideas and exchange knowledge and advice.

Societal Impact through Entrepreneurship

2009-10-15T16:30:00Z

A Lunchtime Discussion with Greg Olsen

Location: Butler College, Wu Special Dining Room
Date: Thursday, October 15
Time: 12:30 p.m.

Entrepreneurship increasingly has become a vehicle by which technology has been able to make a meaningful impact on society. At Princeton, where students develop an ability to think critically, they identify unmet needs along with the desire to develop solutions, products, and approaches to fill those needs. This is the essence of entrepreneurship. Come to the Wu Special Dining Room and listen to Greg Olsen share his thoughts on entrepreneurship. This event is limited to Princeton University students.

About Greg Olsen

After an illustrious career as a research scientist and entrepreneur, Greg Olsen is now president of GHO Ventures in Princeton, NJ where he manages his “angel” investments, South African winery, Montana ranch, and performs numerous speaking engagements to encourage children - especially minorities and females - to consider careers in science and engineering. He is active in the New Jersey Technology Counsel, NJTC Venture Fund, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the NJ Commission on Science and Technology. Greg was the third private citizen to orbit the earth on the International Space Station.

Greg received a BS Physics, a BSEE and MS Physics from Fairleigh Dickinson University, then was awarded a Ph.D. in Materials Science from the University of Virginia. He performed post-doctoral studies at the University of Port Elizabeth (South Africa), taught elementary physics classes, and then worked as a research scientist at RCA Labs from 1972 to 1983. He was awarded 12 patents, wrote more than 100 technical papers, co-authored several book chapters and has given numerous invited lectures to both technical and trade journal audiences. Greg is an IEEE LEOS Fellow and the first recipient of the prestigious IEEE Aron Kressel Award.

Social Entrepreneurship Home Page Tile

2009-10-13T22:00:39Z

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iPhone Apps Home Page Tile

2009-10-08T21:10:54Z

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Olsen Office Hours Home Page Tile

2009-10-08T17:37:11Z

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Operating with Confidence: Twenty Years at Integra LifeSciences

2009-10-07T20:30:00Z

Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Location: Friend Center Convocation Room (113)

To kick off this year's “Leadership in a Technological World” lecture series, Stuart M. Essig ‘83, President and CEO of Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: IART), gave a lecture titled: “Operating with Confidence: Twenty years at Integra LifeSciences” at 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 7th, in the Friend Center Convocation Room. A reception followed in the Friend Center Atrium. Mr. Essig said that the growth of medical device companies is enabled by product innovation, new business creation, geographic expansion and acquisition and product development. He spoke at length about accelerating the organic growth of Integra with an agressive acquistion program.

Inaugurated in the fall of 2006, the Leadership in a Technological World lecture series features successful leaders in technology, who offer a variety of stories and perspectives on the complex path to success in a rapidly changing world. The event is sponsored by the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education and made possible by generous support from the William Pierson Field Lectureship Fund.

“I am honored to be a part of this series and to share the story of Integra’s growth. I plan to discuss our evolution from a single product company focused on regenerative medicine to a $700 million revenue, 3,000 employee, multinational medical technology company.” said Mr. Essig.

About Stuart Essig

Mr. Essig joined Integra in December 1997. Before joining Integra, Mr. Essig supervised the medical technology practice at Goldman, Sachs & Co. as a managing director. Mr. Essig had ten years of broad health care experience at Goldman Sachs, serving as a senior merger and acquisitions advisor to a broad range of domestic and international medical technology, pharmaceutical and biotechnology clients.

Mr. Essig also serves on the Board of Directors of St. Jude Medical Corporation and ADVAMED, the Advanced Medical Technology Association. Mr. Essig received an A.B. degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and an M.B.A. and a Ph.D. degree in Financial Economics from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business.

Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation, a world leader in regenerative medicine, is a global medical device company dedicated to improving the quality of life for millions of patients every year. Our products are used primarily in orthopedics, neurosurgery and general surgery. Headquartered in Plainsboro, New Jersey, Integra has research and manufacturing facilities throughout the world. For more information, visit www.Integra-LS.com.

Greg Olsen Home Page Tile

2009-10-06T18:07:28Z

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Workshop: Greg Olsen, Entrepreneur in Residence

2009-10-06T17:08:41Z

Date: Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Time: 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Location: Friend Center Convocation Room (113)

Planning to submit an executive business summary for the upcoming Tiger Launch competition? Then this workshop is for you. Join Greg Olsen for an entrepreneurial workshop aimed at preparing students who plan to submit their executive business summaries December 6^th for the upcoming Tiger Launch competition on February 20, 2010.

Greg's workshop is scheduled for Tuesday, December 1^st at 12:30 p.m. in the Friend Center Convocation Room; pizza and soft drinks will be served. The workshop is free and open to Princeton undergrads, grads, and postdocs. Please RSVP no later than November 29 to Stephanie Landers at slanders@princeton.edu.

Greg Olsen's E-Quad Office Hours

If you are competing in the Princeton Pitch on November 11th or Tiger Launch in February 2010, taking Ed Zschau's High-Tech Entrepreneurship course or Gordon Bloom's Collaboratory for Social Entrepreneurship (SE Lab), Greg can help you think through your ideas to help move them to the next level.

During office hours, Greg will offer students one-on-one advice regarding potential entrepreneurial endeavors. To sign up for an appointment during Greg's office hours:

Go to Princeton's Web Appointment Scheduling System
Login with your Princeton netID/password
Select "Make an Appointment" and then search for "Greg Olsen"
Select one of the time slots available as shown on the calendar
Be sure to enter your home department, class year, and the topic you'd like to discuss with Greg
Appointments are held in room ACE26 in the Engineering Quad

Dr. Olsen gave a talk at Butler College in the Wu Special Dining Room on Thursday, October 15, 12:30pm. He talked to a full room of students, budding entrepreneurs, about his experience founding 2 companies Epitax and Sensors Unlimited as well as his experience as a self funded astronaut in space aboard the Russian Soyuz rocket.

Dr. Olsen's appointment is with Princeton's Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, in collaboration with the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM).

Fundamentals in Machining: a 5-week, 15-hour Workshop; Starts October 5

2009-10-05T17:00:00Z

Come and learn to use machine shop and make the most of your research projects. If you can dream it up, you can learn how to make it.

This non-credit course provides undergraduate, graduate, and technical staff with hands-on experience in safe operating practices in the machine shop environment. In this 5-week, 15-hour workshop you will learn how to machine various types of metals by way of four different projects. Students will learn how to operate the most versatile and most commonly used machines in the industry today, the Bridgeport Milling Machine and the Engine Lathe.

After completing the course, you will be able to use, under supervision, the facilities in the student shop for fabrication of lab/research projects in order to enhance your learning experience at the School of Engineering and Applied Science. Read more about the course and the instructor, Larry McIntyre (pictured above, right), in this EQuad News article.

Start date: Monday, October 5
Class time: 1:30 to 4:30pm (4 students per section; once per week)
Class size: 20 students
Location: SEAS Machine Shop, lower level, C-wing, E-Quad
Registration: Email to Larry McIntyre at mcintyre@princeton.edu. Please include these items in your email: status at Princeton (undergraduate/graduate & class) and your first and second choice of days (Mon-Fri).

Space is limited. Students will be accepted on a first-come first-served basis.

Student funding available for engineering projects and policy

2009-10-02T17:15:25Z

The Keller Center is pleased to announce for the 2009-10 academic year, the availability of two funds to support (a) "engineering students pursuing projects that offer exposure to engineering applications outside the classroom," and (b) "engineering students pursuing projects that combine engineering and policy".

Made possible by the Norman D. Kurtz '58 Fund for Innovation in Engineering Education and the Eugene Wong '55 Fund for Engineering and Policy, students (either as individuals or in groups) can apply for funding.

· Funding is open to all School of Engineering and Applied Science students

· Students require the support and supervision of a faculty adviser

· Applications MUST be submitted no later than November 13, 2009

To get an idea of the kinds of projects that were funded in the past, see this list of projects supported by the Kurtz '58 Fund from the 2008-09 academic year.

Download the "Kurtz" funding application

Download the "Wong" funding application

Completed applications should be delivered to the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education (ACE21 EQuad). More details are contained in the application.

To learn more about Norman Kurtz '58, download this article (pdf, 176KB) from the Spring/Summer 2006 edition of the EQuad News.

To learn more about Eugene Wong '55, read this article from the Summer 2007 edition of the EQuad News.

Please direct any questions to Stephanie Landers in the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education.

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