Innovation and Entrepreneurship
About
Encouraging an entrepreneurial spirit to translate our innovations into real world solutions and new businesses.
You've got the breakthrough idea, but do you have the resources you need to take it further?
Here in the Riccio College of Engineering we actively promotes intellectual property creation, technology transfer, and the formation of startup companies based on engineering innovations and patents. Within the college, and the campus innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem, you will find:
- Makerspaces for hacking.
- Competitions that award student innovators
- An entrepreneur in residence (EIR) program of successful alumni who provide mentoring & support for our engineering innovators.
- Manning/IALS translational grants that advance applied R&D efforts through the development of spin-out/startup companies
Are you up to the challenge?
Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) Program
Meet our EIR's below
Meet the EIRs
Launching Ideas
Ian Goodine & Ethan Walko '21, '22 MS | co-founders of rStream
Hear about their journey from a student project to the launch of their business.
Start-up Ernest Pharmaceuticals and the Forbes lab
A non-toxic, bacteria-based system developed at UMass can detect when it is inside a cancer cell & then release its payload of therapeutic drugs
Contact
Sundar Krishnamurty
Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Ronnie & Eugene M. Isenberg Endowed Distinguished Professorship in Engineering
Design innovation; predictive analytics, advanced design and manufacturing.
Todd Butynski
Oversees the Engineering Career Center. Works directly with students on career readiness as well as employer relations, bringing them to campus to hire you
