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updated February 23, 2010
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Rose-Hulman to host ‘Leading the Next
Decade of Innovation’ gala
Event to celebrate 10th Anniversary
of Rose-Hulman Ventures
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Governor Mitch Daniels will receive the inaugural “Excellence in
Innovation” Award at an event set for Saturday, February 27 at the
Indiana Roof Ballroom. The award is being presented by Rose-Hulman
Institute of Technology, which is hosting the gala to celebrate the
first decade of Rose-Hulman Ventures, a one-of-a-kind program that
provides student interns outstanding technical and professional
experiences.
“Using his business experience and creative approach to government,
Governor Daniels has implemented a number of programs that have resulted
in financial stability for Indiana. At a time when states across the
country are struggling, Indiana is now one of the top states in the
country in terms of business attractiveness,” said Matt Branam, Rose-Hulman
president.
The event will also honor Samuel F. Hulbert, Ph.D., Professor-Emeritus
and retired Rose-Hulman president who established an academic
environment where innovation flourished. “We are thrilled to bring
together so many of the people who made Rose-Hulman Ventures a success
in its first ten years,” Branam added. The evening will feature dinner,
entertainment and inspiring stories of how Rose-Hulman has proved to be
a progressive leader in the education of innovation.
Rose-Hulman Ventures, a program of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology,
brings together outstanding students with technology-based companies.
For students, that means the best engineering professional practice
experience possible within an academic program. For businesses, it means
prototypes, refining the design of existing products, and expanding
current engineering capabilities.
This real-life, project-based program offers students professional
practice experience and the forward-thinking necessary to set them apart
from their peers in a competitive engineering market. During the past
decade, 757 students have worked as interns for 120 companies.
“We pride ourselves on the unique mix we have of classroom experience
with faculty who focuses all their energies on teaching, along with the
Ventures program where students learn engineering by doing engineering.
The real business climate in which they work gives them a distinct
advantage when they begin their job searches,” Branam explained.
Dinner Chairman for the event is James R. Baumgardt, a Rose-Hulman
alumnus, an emeritus member of the college’s Board of Trustees and the
former chair of the Board’s Committee on Rose-Hulman Ventures. Major
sponsors for the event are AIT Laboratories and Indiana Chemical Trust.
Leadership sponsors include Greg and Amy Gibson, David and Katherine
Hannum, and the Cornelius Family Foundation. President’s Sponsors are
Bill Fenoglio, chairman of the Rose-Hulman Board of Trustees, Nancy and
Niles Noblitt, Joann and Jack Ragle, Susan and Donald Scott and Clyde
Willian.
For more information, visit
http://decadeofinnovation.com.
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