The purpose of the Student Outreach Group is to build relationship with K-12 and higher education institutions to encourage students to pursue science, build academia-industry relationship, and to prevent brain drain in the region. The tasks of this group includes the following:
Provide Internships
Provide career opportunities - Speaking engagements
Mentoring Provide hi-tech companies access to highly qualified interns Provide start-up opportunities Collaborate with local entrepreneurial organizations
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RTCF - Creating Career Opportunities for Local Talents
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RTCF members are dedicated to creating hi-tech career opportunities for talented students and recent graduates in the Inland Empire region. Below are our impact for 2009:
- Isca Technologies - 4 Full Time; 1 Part Time; 7 Interns
- Jacquard - 4 Full Time
- Jaal, Inc. - 2 Full Time; 1 Part Time
- Surado CRM - 2 Full Time
- Ambryx Biotechnology - 3 Part Time
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Feb 9, 2009
Q&A Session with UCR Distinguished Alumnus Brian Hawley
Brian Hawley, CEO of Luminex and past chair of RTCF held a Q&A session for the UCR Student Alumni Association. Brian shared his history at UCR, how it prepared him for life after college, building a business...etc. More than 30 students of various disciplines attended the event.
Feb 16, 2009
RTCF working with UCR Career Service Center to help engineering students prepare for job interview
Elite Systems Integrator, Inc. CEO Rick Risner and Ms. Robinson, director of corporate human resources from Bourns Inc. will give feedback to students on their interview skills, resumes, and attire in an interactive workshop help at UCR.
Feb. 23, 2009
Speaking Engagement: California Baptist University, School of Engineering
Rajan Kasetty, the CEO of Terrafore, will be speaking on the topic of entrepreneurship at California Baptist University's seminar series.
May 11, 2009
"How to become a CEO" - Panel discussion with RTCF CEOs
Hosted by the UCR Career Service Center, students will have a rare chance to interact with hi-tech CEOs and hear inspirational stories on their journeys and lessons learned.
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RTCF Internship Info Session - Feb. 24, 2009, UCR Bourns College of Engineering
Participated RTCF companies: Acorn, Nova, Isca, Teraforre, Ambryx & Avisio
CEO Panel Discussion "How to become a CEO" - May 20, 2009, UCR, campus wide
More than 40 students attended the discussion
Participated RTCF members: Rick Risner, Amro Albanna, Rajan Kasetty, Helen Chen
CSUSB Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship (IECE)
Student lunch with Entrepreneurs - April 30, 2009, Cal. State San Bernardino
Student Fast Pitch Competition (judging) - Nov 10, 2009, Cal. State San Bernardino
Participated RTCF member: Amro Albanna, Sundip Doshi, Brian Hawley
The Copernicus Project (link) - hi-tech companies provided summer internships to students from Riverside Community College.
Collaborators - UCR, RCC
Participated RTCF companies - Surado: 2 interns; Ambryx: 3 interns; ISCA: 2 interns
CNAS board of advisors - Developing business education certificate programs for Ph.D. students and industry scientists. Issues discussed: relevant courses, timing, student feedback, and industry partnership.
Collaborators: CNAS (Dean Baldwin), AGSM (Dean Stewart);
RTCF - Helen Chen
UCR MBA Student Business Plan Competition (on-going)- MBA students from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCR is now competing in the International Business Plan Competition hosted by the University of San Francisco. The student team is taking an hi-tech innovation from UCR to create a business proposal.
- Student team: 7 MBA students
- UCR Technology/faculty: ROCCC/Professor Walid Najjar
- RTCF Mentor: Rajan Kasetty
- Collaborator: Craig Sheward (UCR Office of Commercialization)
- RTCF Facilitator: Helen Chen
Individual lectures/talks:
Rajan Kasetty, Michalis Faloutsos (2 lectures - UCR MBA/Undergrad)
Helen Chen (1 talk - incoming MBA class)
Student Mentors:
Brian Hawley - Impact mentor
Rajan Kasetty - UCR Engineering students
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Group Chair: Helen Chen
Group Members:
Amro Albanna
Rajan Kasetty
Rick Risner
Sundip Doshi
Brian Hawley
Agenor Mafra-Neto
Don Dye
Drew Jorgenson
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