of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development
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Dear alumni, students, faculty and staff:
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The outstanding faculty and staff of Kummer College have been doing great work over the summer. Whether hosting summer programs, teaching summer classes, mentoring research students or writing scholarly papers and proposals, they inspire me to help ensure that the resources are available to accomplish our ambitious goals. Now I'm thrilled to see increased activity on campus as we kick off the fall semester, my first at S&T! Welcome to the new and returning students in Kummer College programs in our economics, BIT and EMSE departments.
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We recently launched the Innovation Ecosystem Design Initiative, our first named initiative, which will result in a set of recommendations for branding our fledgling entrepreneurial community and present a set of guiding principles for the development of a robust Rolla-centered regional innovation ecosystem. We are pleased to announce that Dr. Venkat Allada, professor of engineering management and systems engineering, will serve as the initiative’s executive director. He will work with Dr. Tim Faley, associate vice chancellor of innovation, entrepreneurship, and commercialization, and Dr. Rachel Kohman, director of Kummer Student Programs, to promote, monitor and guide the myriad of entrepreneurial activities at S&T.
Stay tuned for more information on the launch of our speaker series focused on the study of regional innovation ecosystems.
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The outstanding faculty and staff of Kummer College have been doing great work over the summer. Whether hosting summer programs, teaching summer classes, mentoring research students or writing scholarly papers and proposals, they inspire me to help ensure that the resources are available to accomplish our ambitious goals. Now I'm thrilled to see increased activity on campus as we kick off the fall semester, my first at S&T! Welcome to the new and returning students in Kummer College programs in our economics, BIT and EMSE departments.
We recently launched the Innovation Ecosystem Design Initiative, our first named initiative, which will result in a set of recommendations for branding our fledgling entrepreneurial community and present a set of guiding principles for the development of a robust Rolla-centered regional innovation ecosystem. We are pleased to announce that Dr. Venkat Allada, professor of engineering management and systems engineering, will serve as the initiative’s executive director. He will work with Dr. Tim Faley, associate vice chancellor of innovation, entrepreneurship, and commercialization, and Dr. Rachel Kohman, director of Kummer Student Programs, to promote, monitor and guide the myriad of entrepreneurial activities at S&T.
Stay tuned for more information on the launch of our speaker series focused on the study of regional innovation ecosystems.
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College launches its first named initiative
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The Innovation Ecosystem Design Initiative, a one-year project, is the Kummer College's first major step in developing a Rolla-centered regional innovation ecosystem.
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Engineering management Ph.D. student inspires
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Rosebella Osei, a Ph.D. student in engineering management, was recently recognized as one of the Top 10 Inspirational Women in Mining Ghana.
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Students spent a few hours on a Sunday afternoon in late April exploring sustainable ways to store wind and solar energy. As the winner, Noah Johnson, a rising sophomore in mechanical engineering, will conduct supervised research in an S&T lab this fall.
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The fall semester gets off to a festive start with New Student Convocation on Friday, Aug. 16. Photo by Michael Pierce, Missouri S&T.
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"MIME: Mobility-Induced Dynamic Matching for Partial Offloading in Vehicular Edge Computing," a paper by Mahmuda Akter, a Ph.D. student in computer science and a Kummer Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E) Doctoral Fellow, was accepted for presentation at the 49th Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Conference on Local Computer Networks, Oct. 8-10 in Caen, Normandy, France. Debjyoti Sengupta, a Ph.D. student in computer science, Dr. Anurag Satpathy, a post-doctoral fellow in computer science, and Dr. Sajal K. Das, Curators' Distinguished Professor and Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair of computer science, are co-authors. Das is Akter's and Sengupta's faculty advisor and Satpathy's supervising professor.
"Price Escalation in Construction Projects: Examining National and International Contracts," a paper by Bahaa Chammout, a Ph.D. student in civil engineering and a Kummer Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E) Doctoral Fellow, was published in The Journal of Construction Engineering and Management. Dr. Islam H. El-adaway, Hurst-McCarthy Professor of Civil Engineering and associate dean for academic partnerships for S&T's College of Engineering and Computing, and Drs. Mohammad Abdul Nabi and Rayan H. Assaad, both S&T graduates, are co-authors. El-adaway is Bahaa's faculty advisor.
"MoHIC: Stream Prioritization for Gage Network Expansion," a proposal to the State of Missouri by Dr. Steven Corns, associate chair of graduate studies and associate professor of engineering management and systems engineering, has been awarded $392, 552. The grant's performance period is June 25 through Nov. 30, 2026.
"Mid-America Transplant Kidney Artificial Intelligence (MOMAKI-AI)," a project led by Dr. Cihan Dagli, founder and director of systems engineering graduate program and professor of engineering management and systems engineering, has been awarded $280,000 by the Mid-America Transplant Foundation. The grant's performance period is June 1 through June 30, 2026.
"Carbon Capture and Renewable Energy Policies: Could Policy Harmonization be a Puzzle Piece to Solve the Electricity Crisis?" by Dr. Mahelet Fikru, associate professor of economics, and co-authored by Dr. Hongyan Ma, associate professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering and the inaugural recipient of the Kummer Impact Professorship, will be published in the August 2024 edition of Energy Economics. The research examines how different subsidy schemes influence investment decisions and highlights the need for policymakers to consider potential trade-offs signaled by various policy tools.
Please email your noteworthy news to Velvet Hasner, the newsletter's interim editor, at hasnerv@mst.edu.
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Kummer College of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development
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Missouri University of Science and Technology
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