Scott Institute Launches Student Energy @ Scott Institute with Lunch Seminar Focusing on Startups

Scott Institute held its first seminar of a new student-focused event series, Student Energy @ Scott Institute this week. This event series aims to host central events for various students, energy clubs and researchers on the campus. Scott Institute hopes to foster a space on campus to build a stronger, more collaborative community for those that are interested in energy field that can share ideas, projects and research during these events.

This seminar was joined by a mentor in Residence in CMU’s Center for Technology Transfer and Enterprise Creation (CTTEC), Reed McManigle. He advises researchers at CMU in protection of their intellectual property and in development of strategies to move their work to commercial use. He talked on theme of Beyond Academia: How faculty and PhD students can launch and grow startup companies based on their research results.

In his talk, McManigle sheds light on work of CTTEC, Schwartz center and how his work is associated with Scott Institute. Further, he talked about the resources available across campus to get opportunities in or for start-ups and small companies. He also went into further details about how each resources could be utilized, their benefits and limits, what are their distinct functions and how every resource can complement others. CMU students can utilize those resources to enhance their business skills, finding product-market fit, access to funding and space, and a lot of other issues which might act as barriers to their success. 

Scott Institute plans to organize more events under this Lunch Seminar series to continue their efforts on making an energy community. For more information on relevant resources on start-ups at CMU, contact Reed McManigle or email the Scott Institute.