Carnegie Mellon University

Integrated Innovation Institute

Engineering + Design + Business

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Mark Sanders

Mark Sanders

EDIE Program Director & Distinguished Service Professor

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Pittsburgh, PA

Bio

Mark’s passion is working with aspiring innovators, entrepreneurs and agents of change utilizing technology for good.  A successful entrepreneur, he founded a technology-led environmental remediation company which was acquired by a national firm.  Following the sale of his company, Mark spent time at Berkeley Lab in Silicon Valley commercializing technologies while also supporting UC Berkeley’s Lab to Market program. Mark is a native Texan who also served as the Deputy Director of the Austin Technology Incubator at the University of Texas at Austin, the longest-running technology incubator in the United States. 

Mark is the Program Director for the Engineering Design, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship (EDIE) additional major and a Distinguished Service Professor at the Integrated Innovation Institute. Prior to joining iii, he served as the Gemini Chair in Engineering Entrepreneurship at the University of Minnesota where he created a new undergraduate minor in engineering entrepreneurship, a student startup accelerator, a statewide program for scaleup companies, and co-founded the Minnesota Cleantech Consortium.

  • Deeptech Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Circular Economy & Sustainability
  • Startup Strategy
  • Integrated Product Development
  • Designing for the Circular Economy
  • It Depends: An Inquiry into Innovative Thinking
  • MBA in Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Babson College
  • PhD in Interdisciplinary Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
  • MS in Architectural Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
  • BS in Architectural Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin