ETIC Bolsters Innovations

Opening of New York City ETIC

On March 31, the Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovation Center (ETIC) opened a new location on the New York City campus on the sixth floor of the Edward Guiliano Global Center at 1855 Broadway. Joining the Long Island campus location that opened in 2015, the new ETIC will serve as another hub for cultivating new businesses, products, and fresh ideas in technology, engineering, and applied sciences.

ETIC Extends Contract with NASA

Following a successful first year helping NASA move unrealized intellectual property toward commercialization, ETIC is pleased to extend this partnership into a second year. During 2022, students provided prototyping and production services for four projects: an upper body robotic exoskeleton, an impact and trajectory detection system, a cord tension measurement device called C-Gauge, and HeartBeatID, which is a method to authenticate a person’s identity based on their unique heart rhythm.

Cross-Disciplinary Work Creates Innovations

CoECS faculty and students alike continue to prioritize exciting new opportunities to partner outside their own departments and disciplines to encourage inclusion and explore new ideas:

N. Sertac Artan, Ph.D. , associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, is working with Colleen Kirk, D.P.S., associate professor of management and marketing studies at the School of Management, to explore neuromarketing to consumers.

Michael Nizich, Ph.D. , director of ETIC, and Todd Cohen , M.D., professor of clinical studies at the College of Osteopathic Medicine, collaborated on research to determine whether robots could perform simple routine tasks of surgical assistants.

Maryam Ravan, Ph.D. , assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, co-authored a study with Stanford University physicians Robert Fisher, M.D., Ph.D., and Babak Razavi, M.D., Ph.D., as well as Amin Noroozi, a Ph.D. candidate from Staffordshire University, proposing cutting-edge algorithms and techniques that could provide non-invasive solutions for clinicians to more effectively treat neurological and psychiatric conditions.

Undergraduate Research Continues to Thrive

CoECS continues to provide numerous opportunities for undergraduate students to gain technical skills and pursue academic topics of worldwide interest through hands-on research:

Funded by the National Science Foundation, New York Tech’s Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program completed another successful session in 2022. Ten REU fellows collaborated with CoECS faculty and graduate students to study methods to secure mobile devices and wireless networks.

After two years of virtual engagement, six groups of students in the Undergraduate Research Entrepreneurship Program (UREP) showcased their final presentations on May 10 at an in-person event. With help from faculty mentors, CoECS students researched topics such as mitigation techniques for virtual reality cybersickness and the sustainability of electric vehicle adoption in urban environments.