Innovation

Sponsored by the McNeil Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, the Hearts and Gears: Innovating Mobility Challenge offered first-year students an early experience with the entrepreneurship and innovation landscape at Mines: collaborative, forward-thinking and human centered.

Ava Segal’s interactive balance-training system, called Steadiplay, uses body motion on an instrumented wobble board for real-time control of a wireless robot, providing users with feedback and balance rankings, similar to fitness apps like Strava.

For Trevor Bachand ’22, cofounding a startup was a scary but rewarding process, and it was Mines’ available resources and support that helped guide him through starting and running a business.

An efficient ammonia fuel reformer for the decarbonization of heavy industry was the winner of the first-ever Mines Global Energy Future Initiative Innov8x Challenge.

The state-of-the-art 31,000-square-foot building, where the Mines community can turn ideas into startups, is the final piece of the Mines Entrepreneurial & Innovation Ecosystem.

The U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Manufacturing Office has launched a new lab-embedded entrepreneurship program at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to support promising cleantech

The 37,000-square-foot building, located near 13th and Maple streets, will be the state-of-the-art centerpiece of the Mines Entrepreneurship and Innovation Ecosystem and the Labriola Innovation Complex.

When Brian Deurloo ’97 was a kid, he found out his neighbor was buying frogs—his favorite animal—at a quarter a pop. He showed up with a half-bucket of frogs. That was his first foray into entrepreneurship.

Construction on the new 33,000-square-foot facility – which will exponentially increase the scope of support for launching new businesses and ideas through Mines – could begin as soon as late 2021.

Along with seven other collaborating research universities, Mines will help cultivate deep technology businesses in the Western United States.