Technology Transfer
Solid Powerboats - Initiated Senior Design Project via collaboration with local company to. design the deployment of an anchor. First and second place winners received cash prizes.
Foxworth & Dinkins Technology Transfer Workshop
Represented the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Foxworth & Dinkins Technology Transfer workshop - "Bridging Innovation and Entrepreneurship" in Atlanta, Georgia on November 6 - 8, 1994 to promote technology transfer between academia and industry.
Parsons Environmental Services, Inc.
Collaborated with Parsons Environmental Services, Inc. to facilitate transfer of technologies from laboratory to commercial implementation between National Laboratories, FTC, the Department of Energy and Industry.
White House Invitation: Technology for a Sustainable Future
Served as a coordinator for workshop held at Florida International University on Sustainable Technologies for the Americas on October 28, 1994
Technology Transfer Workshops
- National Institute of Standard and Technology Advanced Technology Program Kick-off Meeting, January 9, 2002
- Brookhaven Nanocenter Workshop on March 8-9, 2002 and mentored two graduate students.
- Lambda Novatronics, Inc.
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Fernald Environmental Restoration Management Corporation
- Argonne National Laboratory
- Participated in the preparation of a proposal involving the collaborative efforts of several DOE Laboratories, FIU and other Universities in April 19-21, 1994.
- Represented Florida International University at Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Institutions Environmental Technology Consortium (HBCU/MI) at Clark/Atlanta University
- Partnership Leader for Florida International University/Second Nature/HBCU/MI Consortium for "Greening" of Curricula a Florida International University
- Education for an Environmentally Sustainable Future -- Second Nature Partnership Leader Series of Workshops
- Received Partnership Leader training at workshops in Atlanta, Georgia and Flagstaff, Arizona during the months of May and June, 1994 and 1995 respectively to acquire knowledge and skills to invoke environmental issues into existing curricula.
- Attended a two day workshop at NSF on Enhancing Proposal Development Skills and Promoting Research Collaborations for Engineering Faculty of Minority Serving Institutions, 2007.
- Attended the ORAU 62nd Annual Council Meeting and ORCAS workshop on, “Innovation and Academia at the Oak Ridge Center for Advanced Studies”, 2007.