Professor Jill Wilson Honored with 2018 University Teaching Award
The award honors outstanding performance and dedication to undergraduate education at Northwestern University
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Jill Wilson, Professor of Instruction and Assistant Chair
of Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences, is one of five Northwestern faculty members to be honored with the 2018 University Teach Award.
She is consistently praised for her investment in students development through course structures and various engagement forums that are unique of her teaching, including introducing a flipped-classroom environment to the MEM407: Decision Tools course.
Beyond the classroom, she has
established Group Advising for new IE majors promoting a sense of community for engineering students.
Quoting David Morton, Department Chair Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences - "Jill has created a culture of community among undergraduates that simply didn't exist before she joined our faculty".
MEM recognizes and celebrates Professor Jill Wilson for demonstrating excellence in the classroom and providing innovative curricular leadership across the university. Read more about Professor Wilson's award
here.
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NUMiX Materials Wins $30,000 Grand Prize at VentureCat 2018
Student team continues strong momentum after Rice Business Plan Competition in April
NUMiX Materials (center) after VentureCat win.
In what makes for their
second major accomplishment in less than two months,
NUMiX Materials earned the grand prize and first prize in the Energy and Sustainability track
at VentureCat 2018. Altogether, they were awarded a total of $35,000 for the competition.
VentureCat was held in the White Auditorium at the Kellogg Global Hub, and included start-up companies focused on 5 other tracks -
Business to Business
, Business to Consumer,
Food and Beverage,
Life Sciences and Medical Innovation, and
Social Impact and Nonprofit. Students
pitched their business ideas to in front of hundreds of students and a panel of judges.
"It's exciting to be working with passionate, smart people committed to doing something that can have a quantitative environmental and social impact, and that can also have a tangible impact on customers' bottom lines," said Katie Kollhoff, CEO of NUMiX and a current MEM student.
MEM is proud of its homegrown entrepreneurs
Katie Kollhoff and
Matt Heise and congratulates NUMiX Materials for achieving another milestone. Best of luck as they compete in the Department of Energy Clean Energy Prize in June!
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Student Tours: UI LABS and Motorola Solutions
In the month of May students network and visit state-of-the-art facilities
MEM visits UI LABS (left) and Motorola Solutions (right)
In May, MEM participated in two great events the helped to connect students and alumni to the Chicago technology eco-system.
Hosted in association with
Society of Women Engineers Chicago Regional Section and IEEE Women in Engineering, MEM sponsored a networking event at UI LABS on May 16. The event included a presentation - "Heart, Gut, and Brain: Forging Your Path" by Caralynn Nowinski Collens, CEO of UI LABS followed by networking reception with various industry representatives.
UI LABS is an innovation accelerator that brings Universities, Industry, and Government together to deliver solutions to tomorrow's challenges.
On May 22, Jim Coffing, Lead IP Counsel at Motorola Solutions and Vice President of Northwestern Alumni Association, hosted MEM students for a tour of the Motorola Solutions Innovation Center in downtown Chicago. The tour enabled students to learn about Motorola Solutions position as market leader in public safety communication devices. Students gained first hand knowledge about technologies, sensors and communication devices for police and fire personnel and also how Motorola Solutions is leading the way by incorporating analytics in its product-line. The post-tour networking reception allowed students to interact with MEM alumni and key personnel from various functions including CTO, Paul Steinberg. A special thanks to MEM alum, Jim Coffing, for arranging this great event!
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MEM Students Assist in First Commercial Deployment of Energy Trading in U.S
Students collaborate with Power Ledger & Clean Energy Blockchain Network
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Power Ledger
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the leading peer-to-peer marketplace for renewable energy uses blockchain technology, to provide a transparent, audit-able and automated market trading and clearing mechanism for residential and commercial businesses to decide who they want to sell their surplus energy to and at what price.
Northwestern University's Master of Engineering Management Program students
Muhammad Asad Khan,
Lifei Xu and
Dheeraj Kapur are assisting Power Ledger by providing ongoing monthly measurement and verification, leveraging their experienced engineering and science backgrounds to critically evaluate clean energy blockchain applications and use cases with prominent hosts throughout Chicagoland.
Advocating the collaboration,
Mark Werwath, Clinical Associate Professor, Director of Master of Engineering Management Program and Co-Director of Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation said "We're looking forward to synergizing participating graduate schools together to create opportunities on the energy smart grid sector using the Power Ledger cryptographic platform". Read more
here.
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MEM in June: Rock Painting and 40th Anniversary Dinner
Student and alumni events - register to attend!
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2017 Rock Painting Students |
On Saturday, June 9, 2018
Master of Engineering Management graduates and their families are invited to join the MEM Student Advisory Board in the annual rock painting tradition. There will be food and drinks, and the graduates will choose a rock along the lakefill to paint, commemorating their time at Northwestern!
Location: Lakefill Fire Pit
Time: 12:00pm to 3:00pm
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40th Anniversary Keynote Speaker Professor John Rogers |
On Saturday, June 30, 2018 Northwestern University's Master of Engineering Management (MEM) Program is celebrating its 40th Anniversary with a networking dinner and keynote address from Professor John Rogers to recognize the students, alumni, and companies who value the importance of education at the intersection of engineering and business.
Location:
James L. Allen Center
Time: 5:00pm to 8:30pm
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MEM Student & Alumni Spotlight
Monthly Feature Recognizing Our Amazing MEM Community
Alexa Fisher is an MEM part-time student and an Industrial Engineering alumna from Purdue University. She currently works as a Process Engineer at Northrop Grumman. Outside of work, she spends time with family, friends, and Thor (her dog) who she loves taking to explore different parks. Bowling is one of her favorite sports, in fact, her team won a local league last season.
Read about Alexa's
MEM experience on our blog.
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Alexa Fisher
Current MEM Student
Process Engineer, Northrop Grumman
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Julian Cheng
Vice President, Promus Venture |
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Julian Cheng is currently the Vice President at
Promus Venture, a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups with investments in more than 60 private technology firms. In addition to his Northwestern MEM, he holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Julian has a deep passion for mentoring the next generation of engineers, builders, and entrepreneurs to develop technology for disruptive business models.
Read more
on how MEM impacted Julian's career on our blog.
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| Upcoming Information Session |
On-Campus Information Session:
James L. Allen Center,
2169 Campus Drive
Evanston
Prospective students can register by visiting the
MEM website
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