November 12th, 2009

A Lesson In Entrepreneurial Spirit

By Morgan DeFoort, Co-Director of the Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory (EECL) at Colorado State University, Department of Mechanical Engineering.

How Colorado State University’s Engines and Energy Conversion Lab transformed itself from a resource of academic research to a full-service R&D partner.

There’s always been a certain rhythm to the partnership between industry and university labs. Industry typically comes knocking at the door of academia when they need access to a highly-specialized resource—a virtual reality CAVE environment, for example, or a complex engine or supercomputing cluster. Other times industry reaches out when they come across a faculty member that has prized expertise and some research funding in a relevant area.

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