Himanshu Jain

Himanshu Jain is the T.L. Diamond Distinguished Chair Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, and the Director of Institute for Functional Materials and Devices at Lehigh University. He helped establish and served as the director of NSF’s International Materials Institute for New Functionality in Glass, which pioneered globalization of glass research and education and led to multiple international glass research centers in different countries. Over the past three decades he has focused on introducing new functionality and novel processing of glass, and making glass education available worldwide freely. Lately, he has been advocating for use-inspired research, and led the development of a new doctoral education model: Pasteur Partners PhD (P3) based on Industry-University partnerships. He is an author/editor of 12 patents, 10 books and over 400 research publications on glass science and technology.

Presentation title: Glass and entrepreneurship education