The Meloy Engineering Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program (MEIEP) equips you with the skills, knowledge and experiences needed to be successful in industry. Whether you’re interested in launching your own startup, commercializing your product or leading design and innovation at a Fortune 500 company, we will help you develop the entrepreneurial mindset necessary for your success. MEIEP offers a wide range of programs and events that will help promote students’ understanding of business principles from an engineering perspective. Students will practice their innovation and entrepreneurship skills in an immersive and creative environment.
Mission
Provide engineering students with well-defined pathways to develop entrepreneurial mindsets through immersive experiences in curricular and extracurricular programs and prepare them for successful careers as leaders of technological innovation within a large corporation or their own startup.
Location
125 Spence St.
Zachry Engineering Education Complex (ZACH)
3127 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3127
Meet Our Team
Please send general questions to meiep@tamu.edu.
Jim Donnell
- Executive Director, Meloy Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship Program
- Professor of Practice, Engineering Academic and Student Affairs
- Office: ZACH 451B
- Phone: 979-845-7135
- Email: jimdonnell@tamu.edu
Chris Curran
- Associate Professor, Meloy Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship Program
- Director, Engineering Incubator
- Office: ZACH 451
- Email: chriscurran@tamu.edu
Paul Deere
- Associate Professor, Multidisciplinary Engineering
- Associate Professor, Meloy Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship Program
- Office: ZACH 451C
- Phone: 979-458-5978
- Email: Paul.deere@tamu.edu
Chris Finberg
- Associate Professor of Practice, Entrepreneurship Program
- Affiliated Faculty, Multidisciplinary Engineering
- Innovation Director, Precise Advanced Technologies and Health Systems for Underserved Populations (PATHS-UP) National Science Foundation-sponsored Engineering Research Center
- Office: ZACH 451K
- Phone: 979-458-8148
- Email: chrisfinberg@tamu.edu
Fred Pifano
- Visiting Professor, Meloy Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship Program
- Office: ZACH 415
- Phone: 860-227-0680
- Email: fredpifano@tamu.edu
