One of the critical goal of this special session is to recognize Jubilee Global Diversity Awardees where exceptional early- to mid-career professionals who are women and/or underrepresented minorities (i.e. based on race, ethnicity, nationality and/or geographic location) in the area of ceramic science and engineering will recognized, and consequently invited to present their contributions. In addition, this session will focus on entrepreneurship and commercialization. As a background, entrepreneurship has become an important tool for job creation. More particularly, entrepreneurial process is a highly rewarding process which revolves around freedom of thoughts, originality, risk-taking, and recognizing gaps in the market, proactiveness, and competitive aggressiveness.
Proposed session topics
- Jubilee Global Diversity Awardees invited presentation
- Designing a successful start-up, for example, business strategy, and business idea generation
- Assembling a focused team for a successful venture
- To reallocate different resources for the same, for example human resource management
- Promoting problem-solving and creative out-of-the-box thinking
Symposium Organizers
- Surojit Gupta, University of North Dakota, USA
- Valerie L Wiesner, NASA Glenn Research Center, USA
- Amanda Krause, University of Florida, USA
- Emmanuel Maillet, GE Research, USA
- Thiyagarajan Natarajan, Applied Materials, USA
POINT OF CONTACT
- Surojit Gupta: gupta@engr.und.edu
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