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ASU Alumn Founds Successful Startup and Develops Innovative Technology

Moment, a wearable device designed to improve the senses and productivity of the wearer.

ASU-led SpaceX Hyperloop team advances

Aerospace transportation and manufacturing firm SpaceX has selected an ASU-led team to advance in its worldwide Hyperloop competition, which aims to create a futuristic, regional transit system that hits speeds of up to 750 mph. 

ASU program teaches techies business, entrepreneurial process

Some of the leading innovators of the past decade have done a great deal to change the stereotype that engineers, programmers and other “techies” lack business acumen. Consider Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Oracle’s Larry Ellison and Google’s Larry Page, all of whom started their careers with an interest in the…

‘Engineering the Future’ introduces ASU minds to industry needs

Business, meet Arizona State University’s engineers. This is what we can do for you.

That was the intent behind “Engineering the Future: Entrepreneurship, Partnerships and a Commitment to Innovation,” an event held Tuesday to introduce and promote collaboration between industry and the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.

Steve Wozniak tells ASU students to create something they ‘desperately want’

Steve Wozniak, the Thomas Edison of his time, told several hundred students at Arizona State University on Wednesday to create products they “desperately want” and that “motivation is more important than knowledge.”

ASU Innovation Open finalists announced; groups will compete for $100,000 top prize

ASU’s blueprint for building change makers includes generous measures of innovation and entrepreneurship — likely part of the reason it tops the U.S. News & World Report list of “most innovative schools.” That innovative spirit is expanding beyond the university’s laboratories, maker spaces and residence halls with the ASU Innovation Open, a new technology venture acceleration…

100-year-old utility system collides with solar advances – ASU researchers seek solutions

ASU’s chief research and innovation officer, Sethuraman “Panch” Panchanathan, loves to toss these impressive figures into casual conversation: Between 2001 and 2016, ASU more than quadrupled its research output from $110 million to more than $500 million annually. It’s a nice icebreaker, but the “why” behind those figures, he asserts, is what really moves a conversation.

ASU/USPCAS-E Energizes Entrepreneurial Aspirations For Pakistani Scholars

A second cohort of Pakistani engineering scholars has completed their entrepreneurship course of study at Arizona State University as part of the USPCAS-E program. In addition to entrepreneurship, the students are also studying engineering as well as policy in an effort to enact change and improve their country’s energy prospects.

Barrett Engineering Student Lets Innovation Flow in Entrepreneurship + Value Creation

Entrepreneurship is where engineering and business collide. Junior Mechanical Engineering and Barrett Honors student Erin Huber (pictured left) came to this realization as she collaborated with both engineering and business students to create a marketable product as an honors contract project in FSE 301 – Entrepreneurship + Value Creation, a popular tech elective course within…

ASU Principles Ignite Tech Startups in the Valley

There is a tech startup boom happening in the Valley of the Sun. While established successes like GoDaddy have blazed a trail, an army of new startups – many of which in the beginning consist only of brilliant ideas and optimism – are attracting attention, financial backing and workers.