Six students supported past times the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering’s Entrepreneurism as well as Leadership Programs sweep 5 out of half dozen exceed positions at the Entrepreneur Challenge Elevator Pitch Contest.
The Entrepreneur Challenge is a UC San Diego educatee organization focused on connecting science, applied scientific discipline as well as describe organization students alongside local entrepreneurs as well as professionals inwards San Diego. EChallenge competitions are first-class opportunities for students to have early on seed funding as well as publicity for their query as well as ideas.
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Taking kickoff house inwards the Tech Division were Deepak Atyam as well as Alex Finch (pictured above). Atyam, a Mechanical as well as Aerospace Engineering student, as well as Finch, a Structural Engineering educatee are the founders a startup on a mission to utilisation 3D printing to exercise designs for high performing, lite weight, toll efficient rocket engines: Tri D Dynamics. The team's accomplishments convey made UC San Diego the kickoff academy inwards the footing to successfully design, print, as well as exam a metallic 3D printed rocket engine. Finch as well as Atyam started every bit a Moxie Center Incubator team, where they were provided lab infinite to educate their production as well as exercise working prototypes. The 2 honed their skills inwards becoming to a greater extent than effective technical leaders every bit scholars inwards the Gordon Engineering Leadership Center as well as made utilisation of the von Liebig NSF I-Corps program to focus on client validation of their product.
Bioengineering educatee Delara Fadavi (pictured below, on the right) won instant house inwards the Tech category for her presentation Meego. Fadavi founded Meego alongside Bioengineering educatee Aditi Gupta (pictured below, on the left) to educate a motion-detecting safety device for laptops. They’re developing a paradigm for students who expressed a involve for increased safety land they written report inwards world spaces, such every bit the library or a java shop. Both students completed the von Liebig Center’s I-Corps programme as well as are hold upwards of Moxie’s incubator program. Fadavi was a 2013 Gordon Scholar as well as an alum of the mystartupXX programme which is a collaborative endeavour betwixt the von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center as well as the Rady School of Management.
First house inwards the Bio/Med category went to Mechanical as well as Aerospace Engineering educatee Alex Phan for his piece of job inwards Intraocular. The Intraocular squad is working on improving the diagnosis as well as handling of glaucoma using continuous intraocular pressure level measurement. During the von Liebig NSF I-Corps program, Phan worked to educate the team’s describe organization model as well as validate the sentiment alongside potential customers.
Wangzhong Shen – a Mechanical Engineering educatee – took instant house inwards the Bio/Med category for Nanolipo. The Nanolipo is improving invasive liposuction treatments through the injection of a solution to meliorate dissolve obese tissue making it easier to extract during liposuction procedures. Shen is an alum of the von Liebig NSF I-Corps program.
Stephanie Allen-Soltero – a postal service doctor inwards the Department of Medicine – took 3rd house inwards the Bio/Med category for her Cereus Innovation pitch. The Cereus squad has a new solution for overcoming the growth as well as maintenance of stalk cells inwards high atmospheric oxygen. Allen-Soltero is currently hold upwards of the mystartupXX programme which is a collaboration betwixt the Rady School of Management as well as von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center as well as is supported past times the National Collegiate Inventors as well as Innovators Alliance. MystartupXX mentors woman someone entrepreneurs alongside ideas to commercialize.
We would similar to offering our students, Deepak Atyam, Alex Finch, Delara Fadavi, Alex Phan, Wangzhong Shen as well as Stephanie Allen Soltero, each a proud congratulations on their first-class functioning as well as continued success!