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UA Design Day: Robotic Fish
The University of Arizona held their Engineering Design Day on Tuesday, 30 April, 2013 at the Marriott University Park. Engineering Design Day is a showcase of engineering design projects that students have worked on in cross-disciplinary teams to solve industry-sponsored, real-world design problems using the design process. Students get the experience of working in teams, [...]
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University of Arizona – Advocate for Education
The University of Arizona Honors College selected Dr. Marcus for the 2013 Advocate for Education award. The award recognized Dr. Marcus as “an individual who has demonstrated extraordinary efforts in promoting education”. Dr. Marcus will be honored at an awards ceremony where he will give a keynote speech to the Honors College Students. He will be speaking on the [...]
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Growing & Moving
Expansion is a significant growing pain but also an indicator of success for a small technology company. After taking on many new projects and hiring top notch team members, we soon realized that one of the downsides of our success and the rapid growth of our engineering team was outgrowing our small office and laboratory. [...]
Read MoreWelcome Scott Otterbacher
Welcome Scott Otterbacher Marcus Engineering extends a warm welcome to our newest engineer: Scott Otterbacher. Scott visited Tucson looking for work at a number of engineering firms. After meeting with Patrick Marcus he was “impressed by Patrick’s enthusiasm and ambition and felt that joining Marcus engineering was an excellent opportunity to pursue”. Prior to joining [...]
Read MoreUp & Comer
Dr. Patrick Marcus is a recipient of an Up & Comers award from Inside Tucson Business. Each year the award goes out to candidates who are nominated by readers of Inside Tucson Business. Candidates were nominated for making a difference for the better in the community. Those nominated are destined to make even bigger contributions [...]
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Illuminated & Interactive Sculpture in Lancaster
Brandon Park in Pennsylvania was chosen by Facebook users to undergo extensive renovations in hopes of advancing the city of Lancaster’s “green infrastructure” plans. The park was in shambles with broken pavement and overgrown bushes. Brandon Park received the most votes on a Facebook poll for park renovations, awarding the park with funds from Coca-Cola [...]
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Rising Engineering Star: Dr. Patrick Marcus
Dr. Marcus landed a cover story of Design News magazine. Selection for this prestigious title required not only innovative engineers but influential ones as well. Dr. Marcus launched his own electronics engineering firm and still has the time to mentor college students at the University of Arizona through their senior design projects. He helps students [...]
Read MoreFor Sale: Great Ideas $1, Execution Priceless!
“Ideas: Worthless? Priceless? or 12 for a Dime?” A very nice short article by CJ Cornell on metapreneur.net discussing the relative value of an idea (very little) and execution (where the rubber meets the road). It’s true that our entrepreneurial training programs whether it be a business school, incubators, or government programs tend to focus [...]
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Dr. Marcus : Leader Under 40
Dr. Patrick Marcus was recently selected as a “Leader Under 40″ by Control Engineering Magazine. 19 young professionals were selected from the industrial control and automation control engineering profession as top in their field. Not only were the awarded professionals selected for technical contribution in their field, but also for contribution to education, community, and [...]
Read MoreEller College Alumni Profile
An article I recently wrote for the Eller College Alumni Blog: My post-graduate experience has been a whirlwind of opportunity, challenge, reward and frustration. Every success, failure and experience feeds the richness of character and foundation of knowledge that I have today. See the whole article http://bit.ly/vLFiuk
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