April 09 CHBE Grad Club Seminar‏

Hi everyone,

The Chemical and Biological Engineering Graduate Club is organizing a seminar series where the faculty members of UBC share the stories of their successes as well as making important career decisions. These highly interactive seminars provide an excellent opportunity to hear instructing, exciting and valuable experiences of the speakers and can prove very helpful in developing skills necessary for professional work environments in academia and industry.

The seminar information:

Title: Starting and Running an Innovative Company – A Case Study
Date: April 09, 2013
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM
Place: CHBE 1.02

We are pleased to announce Dr. Shahram Tafazoli as the speaker of the upcoming seminar in the series. Dr. Tafazoli founded Motion Metrics International Corporation after completing PhD from UBC Electrical & Computer Engineering. Currently, he is the President and CEO of that company. He also holds an Adjunct Professorship position with UBC ECE department and is a full member of the Institute for Computing, Information, and Cognitive Systems (ICICS). In addition, Dr. Tafazoli is a member of the Precarn Incorporated’s Board of Directors as well as the TEC Canada which is the Canadian arm of an international member organization for Chief Executive Officers.