Special Focused Session on Diversity, Entrepreneurship, and Commercialization

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