Finding a Passion and Making It Happen: A Program's Approach to Promoting Entrepreneurship, Making, and Innovation through Hands-On Projects that Benefit Society
Author(s) -
Timothy Joseph Balz,
Ashley Bernal,
William Kline,
Jessica Livingston,
Stephen Misak
Publication year - 2018
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.18260/1-2--28356
Subject(s) - mindset , passion , work (physics) , entrepreneurship , process (computing) , innovator , teamwork , project based learning , engineering management , knowledge management , computer science , public relations , engineering , management , sociology , business , psychology , pedagogy , political science , mechanical engineering , finance , artificial intelligence , economics , psychotherapist , operating system
Tim is a student at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology that founded an endowed program as well as a maker space during his junior year. Before attending Rose-Hulman, Tim founded an international charity that has been recognized by the Red Cross and dozens of other organizations for their work providing wheelchairs to those in need. Tim is a recognized inventor for an all-terrain wheelchair targeted at helping veterans that he built the summer before his freshman year. Tim has been recognized for a device that he created while at an Intel internship, and has since worked on industrial robots in Detroit and rockets at SpaceX.
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