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five CSE alumni harnessed their education and entrepreneurial ambitions to start new businesses and transform existing industries Written by joel hoekstra
8 INVENTING TOMORROW spring/summer 2013
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Harold Hamilton (EE M.S. ’72) founded Micro Control Company. The company’s 170 employees test computer chips using a micro-processor-controlled system that he invented in 1973.
ntrepreneurs and gamblers have at least one thing in common: they’re willing to take risks. Sometimes those risks are calculated. Sometimes they’re based on nothing more than gut instincts. But the entrepreneur who takes the right chances—like the gambler who bets everything—stands to win big. Alumni are among those who have bet the house at one point in their life—launching businesses on a shoestring, and investing their careers in technologies they felt could change the world. Collectively, alumni in the College of Science and Engineering have founded more than 4,000 active companies located worldwide, employing 551,000 people and
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