Team rePLA Wins Visionary Award at InventOR

~Contributed by Kay Molkentin, UP Director Entrepreneurship   Over the past six weeks two University of Portland student teams participated in the 2021 Invent Oregon Bootcamp and Competition. Our two teams – Carver Tools with Ben Messerly ’21 and Nick Robinson ’21, and rePLA with Melissa Tran ’23, Evangeline Muyano ’21, Rachel Hu ’21, Addie Zhao…Continue Reading Team rePLA Wins Visionary Award at InventOR

Q&A with Dr. Yu

What are you teaching?…What are you working on? I teach courses in operations management and business analytics for both undergraduate and graduate students, including BUS 355: Decision Modeling and Analytics, BUS 361: Foundations of Operations Management; BUS 455&552: Prescriptive Analytics, and BUS 491&591: Production and Service Operations Management. I work on research projects in supply…Continue Reading Q&A with Dr. Yu

Pilot Venture Challenge 2021 Results

UP students pitch and win! The Franz Center for Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation once again hosted its annual venture pitch competition, Pilot Venture Challenge, as a live, virtual event due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. However, that didn’t seem to deter students from developing invention and venture ideas to pitch. This year there was a record…Continue Reading Pilot Venture Challenge 2021 Results