{"id":653,"date":"2017-07-27T15:04:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T15:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.engineering.nyu.edu\/cie\/?p=653"},"modified":"2022-10-02T09:58:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T13:58:45","slug":"tandons-cie-institute-launches-its-first-nyu-i-corps-summer-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/microsites.engineering.nyu.edu\/cie\/tandons-cie-institute-launches-its-first-nyu-i-corps-summer-program\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Tandon\u2019s CIE Institute Launches First NYU I-Corps Summer Program"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Above: Chandrika Tandon with the first cohort of the NYU I-Corps Summer Program<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Chandrika Tandon (center), Chair of the Tandon School of Engineering\u2019s Board of Overseers and Vice Chair of the NYU Board of Trustees, offered words of advice and support to the first cohort of the NYU I-Corps Summer Program.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cNYU is committed to the success of each and every one of you, and we consider you part of the DNA of the school,\u201d\u00a0Chandrika Tandon<\/strong>, Chair of the Tandon School of Engineering\u2019s Board of Overseers and Vice Chair of the NYU Board of Trustees, said. \u201cThroughout this initial four-week program and over the coming years, we\u2019ll be with you every step of the way as you use technology to build a better society.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her audience was comprised of faculty members of NYU\u2019s\u00a0Convergence of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) Institute<\/a>, students of the first cohort of the NYU I-Corps Summer Program funded by a\u00a0NSF I-Corps Site grant \u201cEnhancing Diversity in STEM Entrepreneurship,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and mentors who will guide them as they embark on an ambitious attempt to brainstorm and develop marketable technologies to address real-world needs.<\/p>\n

Proposed projects range from a method of generating power from food waste to an interactive video-sharing app for the education market that will employ machine learning techniques.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d be very excited to mentor any one of these teams,\u201d alum Robert V. Jones, who often participates in Tandon initiatives, asserted. \u201cThey are all seeking to do big things, and I\u2019m looking forward to helping them apply an engineering and entrepreneurial mindset to overcoming any obstacles they might face on the way to turning their ideas into reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

The\u00a0NYU I-Corps Site Summer Program<\/a>, which will engage its participants in Lean Launchpad methodology, was made possible thanks to a five-year $500,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant aimed at nurturing student entrepreneurs \u2014 particularly women and those from other groups underrepresented in STEM. (The grant is just one part of the NSF I-Corps National Innovation Sites Program, which aims to build a national innovation ecosystem that moves scientific discoveries from the lab to the marketplace.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Above: Group photo of Peter Voltz, Chandrika Tandon, Jin Kim Montclare and Kurt Becker<\/em><\/div>\n
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Assoc.\u00a0Dean Peter Voltz, Chair of Tandon’s Board of Overseers and Vice Chair of the NYU Board of Trustees Chandrika Tandon, Assoc. Prof. Jin Kim Montclare, and Vice Dean\u00a0Kurt Becker<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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More than 50 percent of the student teams in the first cohort will be led by women \u2014 a vision long held by Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\u00a0Jin Kim Montclare<\/a>, who directs the new Institute. \u201cMy hope is that you will all lean on one another, encourage one another, and help one another,\u201d Montclare told the students, who will be eligible to apply for funding to prototype and refine their products at the end of the four weeks.<\/p>\n

Also on-hand at the kick-off celebration, held on July 5 in Tandon\u2019s MakerSpace, were Vice Dean for Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship\u00a0Kurt H. Becker<\/a>and Associate Dean for Undergraduate and Graduate Academics\u00a0Peter Voltz<\/a>. Becker detailed the history of Tandon\u2019s seminal involvement with the NSF I-Corps program, and Voltz explained that this summer\u2019s programming was a natural extension of what the School of Engineering tries to do from the minute freshmen step foot on the MetroTech Plaza. \u201cWe\u2019re proud of our focus on entrepreneurship and our record of educating women in the STEM fields,\u201d Votlz told attendees. \u201cWe\u2019ll be even prouder to see what you accomplish once you\u2019ve taken part in this.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Above: Chandrika Tandon with the first cohort of the NYU I-Corps Summer Program Chandrika Tandon (center), Chair of the Tandon School of Engineering\u2019s Board of Overseers and Vice Chair of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/microsites.engineering.nyu.edu\/cie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/microsites.engineering.nyu.edu\/cie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/microsites.engineering.nyu.edu\/cie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/microsites.engineering.nyu.edu\/cie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/microsites.engineering.nyu.edu\/cie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/microsites.engineering.nyu.edu\/cie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1650,"href":"http:\/\/microsites.engineering.nyu.edu\/cie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/1650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/microsites.engineering.nyu.edu\/cie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/microsites.engineering.nyu.edu\/cie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/microsites.engineering.nyu.edu\/cie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}