Slide 1 Lived/worked throughout US and Asia. UNR Grad 2008 Founder: Fuelcell Startup, Sold in 2008Software Developer Founder: Armor/camou startup, Acting

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Lived/worked throughout US and Asia. UNR Grad 2008Founder: Fuelcell Startup, Sold in 2008 Software DeveloperFounder: Armor/camou startup, Acting CEO: Biosensor ControllerManaging Director: C4CUBE Investment FundPartner: CENTER - Business Incubator Partner: CTI Venture Fund (planned)

These ALL started with an idea!

Ky Good Nate PenrodFounding Partner, iN3 Partners Sr Software Engr, Eye-ComTel: 775-287-3484 Tel:[email protected] [email protected]

CSE Senior Project Topics - August 31, 2009Who are we?

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CSE Senior Project Topics - August 31, 2009Why are we here?

Objectives for Today:

Provide possible Topics for consideration for:

• developing CSE teams for 2010 Governor’s Cup,

• developing support for Senior Projects,

• identify intern opportunities, and

• identify new startup opportunities.

Brief view of what is needed after you select your Topic.

Selecting a Topic will depend upon what you want to do.

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UNR Technologies: (Available technologies to License)Renewable Energy: Coffee Biofuel Life Sciences: Male Bovine Fertility SNP Physical Sciences: Magnetic Encryption for Security

DRI Technologies: (Available technologies to License)Physical Sciences: Mixed-Phase Cloud SimulationPhysical Sciences: FracMAP Aggregate Simulation

Industry Startups:3D Armor Systems: Dynamic CamouflageEye-Com Corp.: MEPS for Biosensor PositioningOthers: If nothing motivates you…..

Create your own:Be entrepreneurial and create your own idea.

CSE Senior Project Topics - August 31, 2009Potential Topics

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Success is more than ….. …. just writing a great Business Plan!

Elevator Pitch(the “bait”)

Business Plan “brief”(setting the hook)

Business Plan(landing the fish)

Achieve Objective$$$!

Live Presentation(skinning & filleting)

Term Sheet(frying & eating)

Due Diligence

Your business starts with an idea……………

…..your topic!

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“Economic Recovery: Entrepreneurs Lead the Way” – Bootcamp C4CUBE:001

Bootcamp Seminars: September 12 – at C4CUBESeptember 19 – at UNRSeptember 25 – at TMCC

Angel Investing Seminar: September 25 – at TMCCBootcamp Investor Day: September 26 – at Sierra Nevada College

Registration:Student with valid ID $ 55.00General Admission $175.00

See http://www.c4cube.com/c4cube-bootcamp

Entrepreneur: “Someone who creates and builds a new way of doing business with an unreasonable expectation of success.”

Bootcamp: How to take a TOPIC and create a business.Boot Camp 2009

CSE Senior Project Topics - August 31, 2009

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Coffee Biofuel UNR ID #: UNR08-002Title: Methods, Systems, and Apparatus for Obtaining Biofuel from Coffee and Fuels Produced TherefromDr. Manoranjan MisraPatent Pending

Spent coffee grounds are converted into biodiesel yielding 10-15% oil that can be used to make a high quality biodiesel. Coffee biodiesel is stable and burns more quickly than vegetable oil based biodiesel. The two-step extraction process is simple and more economical compared to standard processes. This provides a low-cost, renewable source of biofuel helping to reduce the carbon footprint without borrowing from food stock. It is estimated that 340 million gallons of biodiesel could be produced from coffee ground waste worldwide using 2008 data. The fuel stock is growing as well. World coffee production is estimated to increase 2 billion pounds in 2009 to 18.3 billion pounds, up from roughly 16.3 billion pounds. After oil is extracted, coffee grounds and by-products have additional market uses. The coffee grounds can be formed into fuel pellets or remain an effective composting agent. In addition, glycerin by-products can be used in the manufacture of soap products.


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Male Bovine Fertility SNP UNR ID #: UNR07-012Title: Sire Early Selection for Male Fertility Using Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) of the DAZL GeneDr. Wansheng LiuPatent Pending

This technology surrounds a test detecting improved fertility of male bovine and can be used for both dairy and ranch cattle. Dairy cattle fertility declined steadily for both cows and sires from 1959 to 1995 and only started slowing in the late 1990s. With this, much attention has been focused on improving the Sire Conception Rate which documents confirmed pregnancies. Improving the 21-day pregnancy rate by even 1% has been shown to have the economic equivalence of improving milk yield by roughly 200 pounds per cow/year. Dr. Liu has discovered Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) genetic markers from Y-chromosome-related genes that allow animal breeders/producers to haplotype high fertility, low fertility and sub-/in-fertility bulls. This DNA-based technology will significantly improve the design of new marker-assisted selection (MAS) strategies using Y haplotypes as an aid in selecting sires at an earlier age prior to entering a breeding program and eliminate potential genetic defects associated with reduced fertility. This, in turn, has the potential to significantly reduce maintenance costs, prior to breeding either as yearlings or mature bulls.


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Magnetic Encryption for Security Documents and Smart Cards UNR ID #: UNR07-004Title: Devices and Methods for Storing DataDr. Jim HensonPatent Pending

This technology provides a means of producing secure, encoded, tamper-proof, non-erasable media. In addition, it uses higher resolution, uses less space and has a greater life span than current media options. Potential markets include the secure card data and currency encryption/encoding markets. The secure card market alone is estimated at over $10 billion. The key feature includes the ability to orient magnetized, directional particles which will store highly encrypted data on various mediums, including: currency, paper tickets, financial cards, security cards and identification documents (passports, drivers’ license, social security card, etc.). Particles can be oriented in three dimensions offering much higher encryption as compared with current magnetic encryption standards and the data can be read using an industry standard MR (Magnetic Resistive) sensor.


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Mixed-Phase Cloud Simulation DRI ID#: DRI08-004Title: Mixed-Phase Generator And Use ThereofDr. John HallettPatent Pending

The mixed-phase cloud simulation technology covers a method for a creating and controlling a mixed-phase cloud environment. These mixed-phase clouds include both super-cooled water and ice particles that have been implicated in a higher incidence of lightening and aviation icing. Understanding of mixed-phase clouds provides quantifiable data concerning the combined ice crystal and water droplet content in the atmosphere allowing for a deeper understanding of atmospheric conditions. Applications include atmospheric research and aviation design and safety.


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FracMAP Aggregate Simulation DRI ID #: DRI08-011Title: Simulation and Orientation-Specific Morphology Analysis of Solid Nano-Agglomerates Dr. Rajan K. Chakrabarty; Dr. Hans Moosmüller; Mr. Mark A. Garro; Dr. Chris HeraldPatent Pending

Analysis of electron micrographs involves extraction of three dimensional (3-d) structural and geometrical properties of nanoparticles, which are commonly unknown, from their two dimensional (2-d) projected images. Studies so far have tried to formulate generalized recipes to help infer 3-d properties from the particle’s 2-d projected properties. These empirical findings, however, did not take into account the orientation effects of the particles collected on a filter medium for electron microscopy. Additionally, a FracMAP software package has been developed which numerically simulates the aggregation of primary monomers into monodispersive nanoparticles in 3-d space using the Monte Carlo method. Making use of a highly efficient algorithm, the code generates all the possible projections (similar to that of electron-microscopy) of the 3-d nanoparticle onto a 2-d plane by restricting them to stable orientations. Resulting 2-d images are analyzed for their projected morphological properties.


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Dynamic Camouflage 3D Armor SystemsDavid Orgill, Jason Heikenfeld, Lee Good ([email protected]) Patent Pending

Electrowetting displays provide a high white state reflectance of >50% and have attractedsubstantial world-wide interest, yet are primarily an industrially led effort with few details on preferred materials and fabrication processes. The description includes materials selection, purification and all fabrication steps from substrate selection to sealing. Challenging materials and fabrication processes include dielectric optimization, fluoropolymer selection, hydrophilic grid patterning, liquid dosing, dye purification and liquid ionic content. The process described herein has produced pixel arrays that were switched at <15 V on active-matrix backplanes, and which have individual sub-pixel areas of <50 × 150 μm2. The majority of fabrication processes can conform to liquid-crystal style manufacturing equipment, and therefore can be readily adopted by many display practitioners. Also presented are additional tips and techniques, such as controlling the onset of oil film break-up in an electrowetting display. This paper should enable anyone skilled in displays or micro-fabrication to quickly and successfully set up research and fabrication of electrowetting displays. Application is to determine and the integrate algorithms to dynamically implement this technology into soldier eye goggles.


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MEPSEye-Com CorporationNathan Penrod ([email protected]) , Jason Heffernan, Ian CaballeroPatent Pending

In order to find more optimal hardware configurations for future product designs Eye-Com Corp plans to develop a modular, adjustable test platform called the MEPS.The goal of this project is to determine how the performance of the eye-com technology will be effected by variations in facial features and for determining strategies for coping with these variations. MEPS will also be used for optimizing component selection.

In addition to the MEPS device, eye-com corp. would like to develop a software test simulator that could evaluate potential designs against a virtual head database.The simulation would be used to test and generate new designs prior to hardware testing, or to verify the results of preliminary hardware testing against a broader population of test subjects. In addition to testing hardware configurations the simulation would contain tools for transforming positions of individual components into instructions for positioning the MEPS device for real world verification of simulated results.


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Thank you! Questions?

Now it is up to you.

Selecting your topic is the beginning.

If we can help, please contact us.


Ky Good Nate PenrodFounding Partner, iN3 Partners Sr Software Engr, Eye-ComTel: 775-287-3484 Tel:[email protected] [email protected]

www.C4CUBE.com