BME Seminar

"Social Innovation and Commercialization" by Peter Rogers, PhD

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Room 145, Mount Hall
1050 Carmack Road
Columbus, OH 43210
United States

Biomedical Engineering Seminar
Thursday 1/6/2011, 4-5PM
Mount Hall (West Campus), Room 145
 
"Social Innovation and Commercialization"
by
Peter Rogers, PhD
Director, Social Innovation and Commercialization
The Ohio State University
 
Abstract:

The goal of the Social Innovation and Commercialization (SIAC) initiative is to provide an educational experience in both product design and commercialization for a broad range of engineering students working in interdisciplinary teams.  SIAC is pioneering a relatively new concept of social entrepreneurship and represents one of the only product commercialization programs in the country built on the foundation of providing financial sustainability for both the program and its non-profit partners.  It strives to meet two of the University's strategy goals: (1) collaboration between university programs and (2) outreach and engagement with community partners.  It does both.  We currently have five projects underway in various stages employing students from ME, BME, and ECE supplemented with business students (MBAs) and industrial designers. We are actively engaged with six local non-profit organizations and one commercial design firm and are beginning the search for our first manufacturing partner.

Relative to BME, the focus of the SIAC program is the design and commercialization of products for a broad range of people with disabilities.  This focal point brings to bear the critical nature of BME students playing an integral role in these projects and this inaugural year of BME capstone, we have engaged three senior BME pioneers on two SIAC projects.

  
Biographical Information: Peter Rogers
 
Dr. Rogers brings to OSU 35 years experience in product design and commercialization with executive management experience in engineering, business development, and manufacturing.  Graduating with a PhD from the University of Massachusetts under the advisory guidance of Geoffrey Boothroyd, Rogers spent the first third of his career in the infant but rapidly growing robotics industry and became one of the world's leaders in robotic product development.  He spent the next third of his career working for research consultants including Battelle and Edison Welding Institute.  He spent the last third leading technical teams in several, high-technology instrumentation companies.  He has the experience of starting and running two small companies. Dr. Rogers has been a visiting professor working in the EEIC for two years.  He has created two multi-disciplinary design programs, developed faculty relationships across several colleges, and successfully attracted students from business and industrial design to these programs.