Text Box: Tech Transfer Success Text Box: Beginning in the Fall 2006 semester, students at Howard Community College had the opportunity to attend a Technology Assessment Program, supported by technologies and innovators from government supported labs and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Students assessed technologies from Goddard as well as the United States Department of Agriculture, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory. Future semesters will also include technology from the Naval Research Laboratory and the Army Research Laboratory. The experience introduces students to career options in science, technology, research, and business as well as teaches them skills necessary in an innovative enterprise. NASA researchers will collaborate with future academic, law, and business leaders who may be well positioned to work on future technology licensing efforts. HCC students gain hands –on experience interacting with innovators, assessing technologies, and developing marketing recommendations. Future consumers of products that may result from technologies the students assess will benefit from this Text Box: collaboration between the HCC and Goddard. Participating partners like Goddard will enhance entrepreneurial education through a continuum of coursework and teamwork, teach the fundamentals of innovation and technology assessment, and facilitate access to technologies by a growing pool of entrepreneurs. The Innovative Partnerships Program Office was exited about a program that would not only assess some of Goddard’s technologies but also accomplish the goal of engaging students and professionals in the innovation enterprise and teach them the fundamentals of technology transfer. Each semester through June of 2009, Goddard will provide several patented or patent-pending technologies for selection by the class instructor. The student teams will assess the chosen technology, providing valuable insights and ideas for potential markets and applications. The material presented on this page is based on Quote by Ted Mecum, Innovative Partnerships Program Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Text Box: Full text article “NASA Goddard Gives Howard Community College Students Hands-On Assessment Experience” from 12.0.06 you can read at http://techtransfer.gsfc.nasa.gov Text Box: Inside this issue: Text Box: “A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can done will be done” Andrew Grove, Senior Advisor to Executive Management

 April, 2007 Volume 4

Funded by a National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant No. 0538751

Letters From Our Students

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Where we are now?

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WIN A PRIZE

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Improving past inventions

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4-Tomorrow

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Spotlight on TAP

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