Technology, Education and Commercialization: Development of New Concepts in Integrated Education

该奖项支持技术、教育和商业化(TEC)计划的发展，该计划已经开发了一段时间，从试点项目到更广泛的实施。该项目提供高强度的创业教育，为毕业生提供广泛的产品开发技能和市场导向，使他们能够在行业组织中就业或有兴趣创办新企业。由大约45名本科生和研究生工程师和科学家组成的6个TEC团队正在按交错计划进行组装。每个团队都在进行为期12个月的密集学习课程，其中包括技术评估、业务计划制定和商业化选择分析。此外，建议者正在开发和提供一门新的研究生课程，为大约50名从事高技术转让的学生服务；开展研究项目以研究该项目的各个方面；进行评估项目；以及将该项目的部分内容转移到其他教育网站。建议者正在寻求私营部门的额外支持，使他们能够将选定的几个TEC团队的技术项目向前推进，以进行转移、剥离、许可或任何最合适的方式。虽然可能会发生一些技术转让，但这一结果显然是次要的。

This award supports movement of the Technology, Education, and Commercialization (TEC) program, which the proposers have been developing for some time, from pilot projects to broader implementation. This program provides intense, entrepreneurial education that results in broad product development skills and a market orientation to graduates seeking employment in industrial organizations or interested in starting new businesses. Six TEC teams, composed of a total of approximately 45 graduate and post-graduate engineers and scientists, are being assembled on a staggered schedule. Each team is pursuing an intensive 12-month course of study that includes technology evaluation, business plan development, and analysis of commercialization options. In addition, the proposers are developing and offering a new graduate course serving approximately 50 students dealing with high technology transfer; conducting fmur research projects to study various aspects of the program; conducting evaluation projects; and transferring components of the program to other educational sites. The proposers are seeking additional support from the private sector to enable them to move a select few of the TEC teams technology projects forward for transfer, spin-off, licensing, or whatever is most appropriate. While some technology transfer is likely to occur, this outcome is clearly of second order importance.