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• Knowledge-Driven New Product Development is Focus of Upcoming Seminar

  Wednesday, May 9,2012

  Professionals engaged in developing new products — whether they are tangible goods or services — are invited to explore how reusing the knowledge produced through product-development processes enables future innovations. The Knowledge-Driven New Product Development informational seminar, a two-hour preview of a new short course developed by the University at Buffalo’s TCIE and the New [...]

• UB TCIE Celebrates its 25th Anniversary

  Wednesday, May 2,2012

  In the mid 1980s, MRC Bearings of Chautauqua County, N.Y., was losing experienced employees. Its production levels and overall integrity were at stake as a generation of workers began retiring, leaving difficult-to-fill holes in its skilled labor workforce.

• Schroeder Works with UB to Improve Efficiency of Department of Audit and Control

  Wednesday, April 25,2012

  In order to improve efficiency in Department of Audit and Control, Buffalo City Comptroller Mark J.F. Schroeder is working with experts at the University at Buffalo to examine the operations of the department’s three divisions, Accounting, Audit, and Investment and Debt Management.

• Human Resource Assistant Certificate Program to Launch Online

  Monday, April 9,2012

  A certificate program unique to the University at Buffalo’s Millard Fillmore College (MFC) that prepares individuals for a supporting role in human resources is going global. The Human Resource Assistant Certificate Program debuts this month as an online course accessible 24/7.

• UB Program Helps Students Secure Jobs and WNY Companies Improve Operations

  Tuesday, March 20,2012

  University at Buffalo student Benjamin Wilson figured that helping a company improve its operations could only be a good thing for his resume. Little did the Orchard Park resident know it would be the entryway to full-time employment.

• UB TCIE Awards Training Certifications

  Tuesday, March 13,2012

  University at Buffalo’s TCIE has awarded certifications to professionals and UB students who have successfully completed training in the continuous improvement methodologies of Lean and Six Sigma.

• With Help from UB TCIE, Mentholatum Boosts Business

  Thursday, March 8,2012

  In 2009, the Mentholatum Company faced challenges in meeting targeted production levels of its non-prescription pharmaceutical and health care products.

• UB awarded 14 U.S. patents in 2011

  Thursday, March 1,2012

  UB was issued 14 new U.S. patents in 2011, covering technologies ranging from an augmentative communications device for the speech-impaired to a dye for purging blood pathogens and for photodynamic therapy.

• UB to Celebrate Faculty Inventors, Entrepreneurs at Annual Reception

  Tuesday, February 28,2012

  The University at Buffalo will celebrate faculty inventors and innovative companies that reside in the UB Technology Incubator during the university’s annual Inventors and Entrepreneurs Reception on March 1.

• Quiet Carpets and Fiberglass Formation: UB Students Solve Engineering Problems to Win Knovel University Challenge

  Tuesday, February 14,2012

  Want to know why your footfalls echo more loudly on bare floors than on those that are carpeted?