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Student Mentoring Reception: Wednesday Nov 30, MPR, 6-7:30, You MUST RSVP
On Tuesday, November 29, we will be hosting a student mentoring reception in the MPR from 6-7:30 pm.  During this reception, BMW engineer Peter Dempster will be giving a brief presentation entitled "Future Visions for Sustainable Mobility", and we will be awarding $1,000 to the winner of the BMW Mobile Sensor Service Challenge.  A number of industry mentors will be hand to chat with students, and a light dinner will be served.  YOU MUST RSVP for this event by e-mailing Anne Mahacek at amahacek @ gmail.com.
 
$1,000 BMW Innovation Competition
Teams of students are now competing in our latest innovation competition with partner BMW.  Students are conceiving new services that exploit BMW automobiles as distributed sensors.  BMW vehicles collect a wide range of information that can be collected from vehicles operating throughout the world, transmitted from the vehicle through cellular links, and computed for service-specific purposes in the cloud.  Students will produce YouTube videos pitching their concept to BMW and a panel of judges.  [More information]
Upcoming I&E Activities 
October 28 BMW Innovation Seminar
November 7 Faculty / Staff Seminar
November BMW innovation competition
November 30 Student mentoring reception 
January 2-3 Faculty: KEEN SEE workshop
January 3-4 KEEN Winter Conference
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Interested in engineering innovation and entrepreneurship? There are many ways you can get involved with SCU's new opportunities for engineers interested in this area.

Join the Club - Join the Santa Clara Entrepreneurs Organization (SCEO), a student club focused on innovation and entrepreneurship. [website]

Get a Mentor - Join us at our next mentoring reception to meet and network with practicing engineers, innovators, and entrepreneurs. The first event for the new academic year will be held in October  - Check back here for information and timing once the schedule is set.. 

Enter a Competition - Several student-based competitions in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship are held each year, and others are available to join throughout the Silicon Valley. [information]

Attend a Seminar - Seminars are held throughout the campus with speakers on the forefront of technology innovation, Silicon Valley startups, and technology corporations. 

Take a Class - Expand your horizons by taking a class to hone your business acumen, learn product design techniques, or engineer community based projects. 

Select the Pathway - The Design Thinking Pathway is dedicated to the concepts of innovation and entrepreneurship.  Stay tuned for more information on a new Certificate Program that is under development.
The Design Thinking Pathway - Looking for a Core Curriculum Pathway? Consider taking the Design Thinking Pathway, which focuses on on a) technical innovation, b) design processes that allow innovation to be incorporated into products/services/systems that solve a customer need, c) enterprise strategies for harnessing the value and ensuring the sustainability of innovative products, and d) social aspects regarding the value and impact of innovation on the world.  Contact Dr. Ruth Davis or Dr. Kitts for additional information.
Joint KEEN Projects - As part of a new initiative with collaborating universities in the KEEN network, SCU students are now jointly developing and operating several engineering systems with students at St. Louis University, Milwaukee School of Engineering and Baylor University.  

The first project, conducted in cooperation with NASA and NOAA, involves the development of a fleet of robotic kayaks to perform advanced sensing of the marine environment.

The second project involves the operation of communication stations that are being used to support the on-orbit control of the NASA O/OREOS spacecraft.  For an update on the O/OREOS mission, see the Mission Dashboard.

Additional information regarding KEEN university collaborations can be found here.

KEEN - Many of our Innovation and Entrepreneurship initiatives are supported through a generous grant from the Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network (KEEN).  
 
KEEN concentrates on curricular enhancements to the undergraduate educational program and on co-curricular and extra-curricular activities that foster the spirit of innovation and the entrepreneurial mindset within the School and across our campus. KEEN is sponsored by the Kern Family Foundation and includes partner universities across the country.
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