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The E-SHIP minor is constantly developing new businesses and showing students how to use their entrepreneurial skills in existing businesses. Select a menu item on the left to learn more about E-SHIP!
Current news
Penn State team takes third place at idea to product global contest - November 9, 2009
Students invited to devise 'Milking the Rhino' solutions - November 2, 2009
University to host Advanced Invention to Venture workshop - November 2, 2009
Workshop to bring entrepreneurs together with students and faculty - October 20, 2009
Pharmaceutical CEO to give next Gaelen lecture - October 5, 2009
Heard on Campus: Igor Jablokov - September 25, 2009
Product developer for Blackberry, iPhone to kick off speaker series - September 22, 2009
Student assures a job for himself by starting his own company - May 11, 2009
Mashavu featured in BusinessWeek - March 23, 2009
- Article: NCIIA: Promoting Student Inventors -The NCIIA's March Madness for the Mind is an annual competition that lets college students get their ideas closer to the marketplace
- Slideshow: March Madness for the Mind
Koe receives Joel Polsky Prize Honorable Mention - March 23, 2009
Entrepreneur preserves, plans business: Student looks to use Twitter, Facebook to provide 'market intelligence' to companies - The Daily Collegian - March 18, 2009
Entrepreneurship student passes on spring break to start business - March 17, 2009
Engineering entrepreneurship student heads to Silicon Valley for spring break - February 26, 2009
Mehta wins entrepreneurship education award - February 5, 2009
Lemonade stands raise money for charity - September 29, 2008
A young Penn State fan plays "lemonade pong" at the Lemonade Brigade's lemonade stand in front of Got Used Book Store. The team used several other strategies, including face painting and music, to obtain donations for the Muscular Dystrophy Foundation. |
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Five teams of first-year engineering entrepreneurship students sold lemonade at downtown location on Saturday, September 27 before the Penn State-Illinois football game. The teams raised money for various charities while learning about decision-making, sales strategies, and entrepreneurship. |
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Carryer named fall 2008 Bishoff Entrepreneur-in-Residence - August 26, 2008
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Babs Carryer, the fall 2008 Bishoff Entrepreneur-in-Residence, discusses business ideas with students over lunch. Carryer visited from September 24-26, co-teaching in the entrepreneurship minor courses, meeting with student entrepreneur teams, and meeting with faculty and staff involved in technology commercialization. |
The engineering entrepreneurship program has named Babs Carryer as its fall 2008 Bishoff Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Carryer was co-founder, president and chief executive officer of RemComm Inc., a provider of radio-based emergency communications. During the course of her tenure at RemComm, Carryer developed three software products from idea to commercial product. Carryer has been president of Carryer Consulting for 14 years, providing strategic marketing and business planning services to technology companies and organizations in the software and life sciences sectors. |
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Philip Boyer joins E-SHIP Minor teaching team - August 5, 2008
| SEDTAPP is pleased to announce the addition of Mr. Philip (Phil) Boyer to the E-SHIP Minor teaching team. Phil is a successful entrepreneur from the Hershey area, along with experience at Hershey Foods and Geisinger Health System. Phil has his MBA from Penn State in marketing, and has taught marketing at Penn State Harrisburg. Phil will be teaching two E-SHIP courses per semester (ENGR310 - Entrepreneurial Leadership and ENGR411 - Business Basics). In addition, he will be helping with E-SHIP minor student advising, mentoring student teams, working with the Penn State Network of Entrepreneurs (student group). |  |
Phil Boyer |