Date: November 19, 2009

Time: 4:30 p.m.

Location: Carl A. Fields Center (map)    

Professor Gordon Bloom, Dean’s Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship, will give a lecture titled “Social Entrepreneurship: A Rising Generation Changing the World” on Thursday, November 19 at 4:30 p.m.  Select students from Professor Bloom’s class, A Collaboratory for Social Entrepreneurship (SE Lab), will also present their entrepreneurial endeavors during the lecture. The event will be held in the new Carl A. Fields Center, Room 104 (enter from Olden Street). A reception will follow in the Fireside Lounge.

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.

Date: November 12, 2009

Time: 5:30 p.m.

Location: Friend Center Auditorium (101)

(corner of Olden and William Street)

Other: Reception to follow

To kick off the Keller Center's Princeton-Jumpstart lecture series this fall, a panel discussion on iPhone applications will be held at Princeton University in the Friend Center Auditorium at 5:30 p.m. on November 12.  A reception will follow in the Friend Center Atrium.

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? Hear from developers working on communication, gaming, social networking and health apps. The event is 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, CEO 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.
 

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.
 

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.

Time: 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Location: Friend Center Convocation Room (113)

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).

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).

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.