An emphasis on community-focused engineering

Posing with students who participated in the recent Demo Day event at the Arizona State University’ West Valley campus are Brent Sebold, an associate teaching professor and director of Entrepreneurship + Innovation at the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at ASU (third from left, kneeling) and Kristin Slice, director of Community Entrepreneurship at ASU’s J. Orin Edson Entrepreneurship + Innovation Institute (second from left, standing). Students pitched ideas for ventures they devised to help provide solutions for a variety of pressing societal challenges. Photographer: Joe Kullman/ASU

Two recent events at the Arizona State University West Valley campus put a spotlight on student projects that are striving to lay groundwork for building stronger communities.

At a recent Entrepreneurship + Value Creation Demo Day event, several groups of students in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at ASU, presented projects to which they applied both technical and entrepreneurial concepts they learned over the spring semester.

About 20 engineering students also displayed a variety of tech-based projects at the West Valley campus Integrated Engineering Innovation Showcase.

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