NAPM Central Texas November Meeting on Working with Businesses in China

 

Date:  Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Time: 12:00 Noon

Place:  City of Waco Operations Center at 1415 North 4th Street in Waco, City of Waco Purchasing Conference Room.

Cost:  $10 members or guests (Bring correct Cash or pay by check): King Ranch Chicken, Corn, Mashed Potatoes, Green Salad, Peach Cobbler and tea

RSVP by Friday, November 6 at 3:00 PM email Susan_K_Smith@baylor.edu or call 710-6130

Speaker:  Dr. Greg Leman

Director, University Entrepreneurial Initiatives; Curtis Hankamer Chair in Entrepreneurship - Management & Entrepreneurship

Work Experience

·         Hankamer Chair in Entrepreneurship, Clinical Professor and Director of University Entrepreneurial Initiatives, Baylor University (August 2005 - Present)

·         Product Line Director & Technology Director for Fluorine Chemicals, Great Lakes Chemical (November 2000 - September 2005)

·         Managing Director, Cabot-Huels Joint Venture, Rheinfelden Germany (August 1995 - August 1998)

·         Treated Fumed Silica Product Manager, Cabot Corporation (November 1988 - July 1999)

·         Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois (August 1985 - December 1988)

·         Process Development Engineer, Dow Chemical Corporation (May 1980 - May 1982)

Consulting

·         Entrepreneurial Training Workshop Leader, Enable Ventures, varied

Awards and Honors

·         Fulbright Fellowship (1985)

·         National Science Foundation Fellow (1983)

Publications

Contributions to Practice

"Incorporating Global Entrepreneurship Courses into an Engineering Curriculum," Proceedings of NCIIA conference, March 2008, Vol. (on CD), (March 2007), pp. pp. 87-94 (coauthors: Walter Bradley, Anne Grinols, Glenn Blalock, William Jordan, Cindy Fry).

Presentations and Proceedings

"THE I5 PROGRAM: THE CHALLENGES OF IMPLEMENTING A PROJECT-BASED SUMMER STUDY-ABROAD PROGRAM THAT INTEGRATES TECHNOLOGY AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN CHINA," Proceedings of the Annual Conference, Austin Texas, June 2009, Vol. 2009 (coauthors: Cynthia Fry).

"Secrets of SuperCoaching Inventors," presented at the AIChE 2008 National Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 2008.

"Exposing Undergraduate Engineering and Computer Science to the Asian Business Culture," presented at the 38th ASEE / IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Saratoga Springs, NY, October 2008 (coauthors: Cynthia Fry).

"Opening Remarks + Creating Skills and Environment for Innovation," presented at the 2008 International Forum on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Shanghai China, May 2008.

"Incorporating Global Entrepreneurship into an Engineering Curriculum," Proceedings of the NCIIA 12th Annual Conference, Dallas Texas, March 2008 (coauthors: Walter Bradley, Glenn Blalock, Cynthia Fry, Anne Grinols).

"Making Technology Inventiveness Accessible to the Business Students using TRIZ," presented at the NCIIA 12th Annual Conference, Dallas Texas, March 2008.

Contributions to Practice

"Integration of TRIZ Methods into Stage-Gate Processes for New Product Development," presented at the Product Development Managers Association, Central Texas Chapter, December 2006.

Learning and Pedagogical Research

"International Technology Entrepreneurship: Immersion into Interdisciplinary Innovation (I5) in Shanghai," presented at the 37th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Milwaukee, WI, October 2007 (coauthors: Cynthia C. Fry).

"Teaching International Technology Entrepreneurship in the Undergraduate Engineering and Computer Science Curriculum," presented at the ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference University of Texas-Pan American, 2007 (coauthors: C. Fry).

"An Educational Convergence," presented at the Texas Economic Development Council, Houston, TX, September 2006.

"Experiential Learning at Hankamer-Exploring the "Golden Triangle" of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Global Competency," presented at the 4th Annual International Conference on Global Entrepreneurship, Zhegiang University, China, Jun

Susan Smith
Budget Associate
Hankamer School of Business
One Bear Place #98015
254 710-6130
254 710-7459