Special Focused Session on Diversity, Entrepreneurship, and Commercialization
One of the critical goals of this special session is to recognize Jubilee Global Diversity Awardees—early- to mid-career women and/or underrepresented minorities (based on race, ethnicity, nationality and/or geographic location) who have demonstrated exceptional and innovative research in the area of ceramic science and engineering. The awardees will be recognized and invited to present their contributions. In addition, this session will also focus on other aspects of being a working materials engineer or scientist. Skills such as team building, entrepreneurship, creativity, commercialization or scaling up, communication, and business acumen are all important. Entrepreneurship and commercialization have become important tools for job creation and building a diverse skillset. More particularly, the entrepreneurial process is a highly rewarding process which revolves around freedom of thought, originality, risk-taking, and recognizing gaps in the market, proactiveness, and persistence.
Proposed session topics
- Jubilee Global Diversity Awardees Invited Presentation
- Designing a successful start-up, for example, building a diverse team, business strategy, and business idea generation
- Assembling a focused team for a successful venture or product development
- Reallocating different resources, for example human resource management
- Promoting problem-solving, and creative and out-of-the-box thinking.
- Impact of diversity on ideation and project outcomes
- Creating saleable products from research results
- Methods and tools for fostering and retaining broad diversity in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) with main focus to ceramic science
Symposium organizer
- Valerie Wiesner, NASA Langley Research Center, USA
- Young-Wook Kim, University of Seoul, Republic of Korea
- Theresa (Tessa) Davey, Tohoku University, Japan
- Kristin Breder, Saint-Gobain Research, USA
- Surojit Gupta, University of North Dakota, USA
- Marissa Reigel, Saint-Gobain NorPro, USA
- Jie Zhang, Institute of Metal Research, China
Point of Contact
- Valerie Wiesner: l.wiesner@nasa.gov
- Young-Wook Kim: ywkim@uos.ac.kr
- Tessa Davey: davey@bangor.ac.uk
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