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About Us

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
  • Director, Engineering Entrepreneurship, Multidisciplinary Engineering
Jim Donnell

Chris Curran

  • Associate Professor, Meloy Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship Program
  • Director, Engineering Incubator
Chris Curran

Paul Deere

  • Associate Professor of Practice, Multidisciplinary Engineering
Paul Deere

Chris Finberg

  • Associate Professor of Practice, Multidisciplinary Engineering
  • Innovation Director, Precise Advanced Technologies and Health Systems for Underserved Populations (PATHS-UP) National Science Foundation-sponsored Engineering Research Center
Chris Finberg

Fred Pifano

  • Visiting Professor, Meloy Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship Program
Fred Pifano