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Phil Boyer
Interim Director
213L Hammond Building
University Park, PA 16802
(814) 863-1550
pgb10@psu.edu
The 18-credit Engineering Entrepreneurship (E-SHIP) minor combines technology and business to create entrepreneurs and innovators. E-SHIP shows students of any major how to use their unique skills to become innovators in today's global business climate.
The E-SHIP minor was founded thanks to a grant from the GE Learning Excellence Fund and the Penn State Leonard Center. The minor is now partially funded through the Gaelen Endowment for Engineering Entrepreneurship and Leadership, the E. V. Bishoff Engineering Entrepreneur in Residence, the Keen Endowment for Engineering Entrepreneurship, and the Eberhardt Endowment for Entrepreneurship in Engineering.
Innovating the Developing World
Social entrepreneurship projects implemented in Africa
Mashavu and WishVast are two on-going humanitarian engineering and social entrepreneurship projects offered through EDGSN 452 Projects in Community Service Engineering. These two projects, led by Engineering Design Affiliate Faculty and Senior Research Associate Khanjan Mehta, involve students in hands-on engineering design and entrepreneurship activities in the classroom and are implemented in Africa during the summer.
E-SHIP student launches business in Silicon Valley
Alex Mann, a 2009 finance graduate and engineering entrepreneurship minor, can feel good in this economy knowing he has job security. That is because Mann, a budding entrepreneur, has successfully conceived his own business and secured funding for the venture—right out of college.
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Penn State team takes third place at idea to product global contest
Spring 2010
Buzby Networks, Penn State’s entry to the 2009 Idea to Product (I2P) Global Competition, took third place and a $2,500 prize in the contest’s Technology Entrepreneurship Society Global Championship round. The I2P Global Competition was held in October at the University of Texas in Austin, TX.
E-SHIP students continue collectable magnet business
Spring 2010
Greg Kester, Nichole Lopes, and Carlos De La Rosa needed to form a working company for their final project of an engineering entrepreneurship course. Although their first inclination was to use their engineering backgrounds to create something elaborate, simplicity won out in the end.
Workshops prepare attendees for "invention to venture"
Spring 2010
Invention to Venture (I2V), a one-day workshop on the basics of technology commercialization and entrepreneurship, was hosted by the Penn State Entrepreneurs Network and the College of Engineering at University Park on Oct. 24, 2009.
Penn State Live: Boyer named interim director of entrepreneurship minor
January 2010
Phil Boyer, instructor in engineering entrepreneurship, has been appointed interim director of the engineering entrepreneurship minor, offered through the School of Engineering Design, Technology and Professional Programs.
The Daily Collegian: Film to show interaction of animals, people
November 2009
Penn State will hear from a documentary filmmaker who has experienced the hardships of rural Africa firsthand with tonight's free screening of "Milking the Rhino."