A partnership involving Colby Community College, Midwest Energy, Wind Energy Consulting and Contracting, and Kansas State University has received a subcontract award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory to establish the High Plains Small-Wind Turbine Test Center at Colby. The Colby center will focus on residential and commercial scale turbines rated [...]
When placing a spread bet on college football, a bettor’s success might have as much to do with geography as with luck. When a Kansas State University economist combined his enthusiasm for college football with his expertise in arid land studies, he and a colleague found that bettors have a good chance of making money [...]
K-State alum Bill Porter (MS in Physics, 1952) was recognized this spring with a major award from the Options Industry Council. The 82-year-old entrepreneur who built E*Trade into a $3.33 billion discount broker with 2.6 million brokerage accounts received the Sullivan Award for his contributions to the options industry as a co-founder of the New [...]
The Advanced Manufacturing Institute at K-State has helped a Hutchinson company with one of its products. Seed Research Equipment Solutions, also known as SRES, manufactures seed planters. The company worked with the K-State institute to enhance the structural integrity of the frame on its precision planter. “A SRES precision planter was experiencing issues with the [...]
K-State’s Center for the Advancement of Entrepreneurship is offering $18,000 in prize money to students with unique business ideas in the second annual “Next Big Thing” competition. The competition provides K-State students from all academic disciplines with an opportunity for entrepreneurial thinking. Throughout the semester, students will fine-tune a feasibility plan to compete against others. [...]
Students looking to launch their own business someday can learn the latest techniques with the new academic major in entrepreneurship offered by Kansas State University’s College of Business Administration. Growing demand for programs in entrepreneurship and the desire to build an entrepreneurial culture at K-State are among the reasons for the major, said Yar M. [...]
K-State’s Advanced Manufacturing Institute has helped a small business owner in Manhattan with the development of two new tools to expand his product line. Charles Faulk, a pianist, piano technician and professional wood turner with more than 30 years experience in piano manufacturing, restoration and concert-level piano work, received assistance from the Advanced Manufacturing Institute [...]
Two Kansas entrepreneurs have developed a special new smoker and grill, and Kansas State University’s Advanced Manufacturing Institute helped make it possible. The Xtreme Smoker & Grill, created by Delmar and Steve Toburen, St. George, is now on the market — just in time for the summer barbecue season. “The Advanced Manufacturing Institute worked with [...]
Entrepreneurial plans for a company that makes edible bouquets from baked goods and an organization that donates used children’s books to charter schools are the top winners in Kansas State University’s first Next Big Thing competition for undergraduate students. Sponsored by K-State’s Center for the Advancement for Entrepreneurship, the Next Big Thing asked K-State students [...]
When Kansas State University student Katie Hamm searched online for internships in dietetics, the process was anything but smooth. “Nothing was consistent from one Web site to another, and you had to look all over to find anything,” said Hamm, a senior in dietetics from Shawnee who will graduate from K-State in May. That’s how [...]