Sensor Consortium
Consortium for Security and Medical Sensor Systems

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The goal of the consortium is to promote and increase awareness of entrepreneurship and technology transfer activities on Long Island with a focus on national security and medical sensor systems.

Long Island, because of its defense industry past and large number of higher education institutions has been historically a hotbed for high tech industries. Currently, there are many resource centers from the State and Local governments and a tremendous amount of effort aimed at promoting entrepreneurial and technology transfer activities. However, most of this effort focuses on providing assistance to businesses and entrepreneurs. Not much is done to educate students on the concept of entrepreneurship.

A major and unique component of the Sensor Consortium is our Education Component. For the first time, four of Long Island’s campuses join forces to educate our students on technology entrepreneurship. The Sensor Consortium’s Education Partners includes Stony Brook University, Hofstra University, Farmingdale State College of Technology, and Suffolk Community College.
Each of the education partners has a unique student body. We believe that by forming this partnership, the four education partners will be able to bring together a large and diverse student pool and could have a far reaching impact on Long Island’s technology entrepreneurship education.

Besides the Education Component, the Sensor Consortium also has a Research and Technology Transfer and an Outreach and Dissemination Component.

It is our vision that these three components are interlinked together to provide an infrastructure and a community to support each other. It is our goal that at the end of the two-year project period, through the many activities, faculty and students of the four Education Partners are all well aware of how a successful entrepreneur thinks and solves a problem. It is our vision that the consequence of such awareness will translate into more patents, more startup technology companies, and more research and development projects in national security and medical sensor systems on Long Island.

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