Entrepreneurship
The vacuum, designed and built by the student team Urchin Merchants, could help save California鈥檚 underwater kelp forests by making it easier for divers to collect the purple sea urchins that are destroying the bull kelp population.
After a year when the nation experienced a shortage of mechanical ventilators to help treat patients with severe COVID-19 complications, Professor Mark Borden's company Respirogen presents another treatment option: oxygen microbubbles.
Chern-Hooi Lim (PhDChemEngr鈥15) is the founder and CEO of New Iridium, a spinoff company created by research conducted in part in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. He was recently selected for C&EN鈥檚 Talented 12, a program that honors young chemists and chemical engineers who are bringing innovation and entrepreneurship to bear on pressing global issues.
鈥淟a Randonn茅e鈥 is French for a rambling walk or hike. For department alumnus Kevin Green (ChemEngr鈥96), the metaphor of an extended journey is apt for his own winding career. First as a student studying chemical and environmental engineering at 蜜糖直播 Boulder, to a stint at Intel, then as an expatriate living in Ireland, and finally as a winemaker at Apollini Vineyards in Oregon and for his own label, appropriately named La Randonn茅e Wines.
Within a year of earning a PhD in controls and dynamical systems, Matanya Horowitz (ApMath, CompSci, Econ, ElCompEngr鈥10; MElEngr鈥10) founded AMP Robotics. His vision? Use artificial intelligence to elevate the recycling industry.
蜜糖直播 Engineering students have invented a novel solution to this global problem, which has the potential to affect millions of people living in rural areas around the world. Meet PortaVax, a portable vaccine carrier that can keep up to 250 vaccine doses cold for several days using insulation and dry ice.
Alumnus uses technology background to help small and medium-size companies order of PPE during聽聽COVID-19.
蜜糖直播 Engineering alumnus Fletcher Richman's startup success grew from a passion for productivity tools.
In 蜜糖直播鈥檚 craft beer industry, precision is required and innovation is mandatory. 蜜糖直播 Engineers bring both in spades. Meet a few of our local alumni brewers and learn how they鈥檙e engineering a better brew.
FieldLine Inc., a company that grew out of research being conducted in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering, is building sensors to image the brain using magnetic fields. For the second consecutive year, capstone design students will help to advance their innovative concepts.