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Volume 2 COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ewu.edu/cob MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN WE’VE MOVED! In September, the College of Business Welcome to the fall 2020 College of Business newsletter! As I moved to the new Catalyst building, look back at what has surely been one of the most unique and located just across the Gateway Bridge challenging years in recent history, I am struck by the resilience 2020in Spokane’s University District. Business and dedication of our EWU students, faculty, and staff. The COVID-19 pandemic not only changed the way we teach and is one of several EWU programs that learn, but also forced us to reimagine awards ceremonies, will be housed in the Catalyst building Commencement, career recruitment activities, and internships. including; Computer Science, Electrical Despite the obstacles, we continued to find ways to celebrate Engineering, Design, Computer our students, prepare and connect students with employers, and Engineering and Creative Writing. The to host special events and guest speakers. The pandemic even College of Health Science and Public provided topical course material for some of our instructors, who challenged students Health Dean’s Office and some program to imagine how the current global environment would affect management decisions in staff will also relocate to the Catalyst. an organization. Housing these programs together in The College continues to look toward the future. We recently relocated to the new downtown Spokane creates an incredible Catalyst building. The Catalyst, located just across the Gateway Bridge in Spokane’s opportunity for faculty and students University District, creates a dynamic, interactive environment where students and to apply their learning to real-world faculty will partner with local business and industry experts for community-based problems, working with local business learning. Faculty have developed new transdisciplinary entrepreneurship degree and industry experts for community- programs designed to provide students with the skills needed to launch initiatives or based learning. work in entrepreneurial companies in a variety of fields including analytics, information The Catalyst is part of the planned systems, computer science, and music technology. Our accelerated MBA program is experiencing tremendous growth and we recently launched an online Master of South Landing Eco-District, which will Professional Accounting program. serve as a transformative model for In this edition, I am proud to share some of our recent accomplishments. As always, sustainable development in the heart of I look forward to hearing from you. Please contact me if you have any comments, Spokane. The collaboration between suggestions, or stories that you would like to share. Avista, McKinstry, Katerra, Michael Green Architecture, Emerald Initiative Sincerely, and EWU started with the bold vision by Avista Chairman Scott Morris to create the five smartest blocks in the world. The state-of-the-art Catalyst building Jonathan W. Anderson, PhD aims to be the largest zero energy Interim Dean, College of Business building in North America certified by the International Living Future Institute (ILFI). The adjacent Morris Center is the heart of the shared energy model, where a centralized plant will power the two new buildings and additional buildings in the future. The College of Business is proud to be a part of this initiative and we cannot wait to welcome our students to our new building and expand their opportunities for hands-on, practical, and transdisciplinary experiential learning. Visit our website to watch the virtual grand opening and learn more about the Catalyst and South Landing Eco-District. COB 2ENTREPRENEURSHIP $40,000 STARTUP CHALLENGE PROFESSOR FEATURED The 2020 EWU $40,000 Startup Challenge was held on May 21, 2020. This year, 60 EWU teams entered the event, with students representing all five colleges. In total, IN USASBE MEMBER $43,000 was awarded in prizes and business development money. Our top student SPOTLIGHT business for this year earned $16,500 to get their company going. All of the finalists Bruce Teague, PhD, also had the opportunity to pitch their idea to Tom Simpson, the president of the was recently featured Spokane Angel Alliance. Here are the results of the final stage: in the United States Association for Automated MicroMalthouse - Jake Hays and Cody Fox Small Business and Winner of the $10,000 Catalyst Prize Entrepreneurship Winner of the Most Innovative New Product $3,000 Prize (USASBE) Member Co-Winner of the Best Business Pitch of the Year $1,000 Prize Spotlight. Teague Company Description - The world’s first totally automated barley malting machine. is the Eastern Washington University I created a computer vision program that analyzes the length of barley rootlets to (EWU) Foundation Endowed Professor determine when to start the kilning process after germination. of Entrepreneurship, and the Founding Automated MicroMalthouse Pitch Video Director of the EWU Center for Entrepreneurship. He also serves as GFG (Green Filtration Guys) - Lloyd V. Dees, Tanner Cunningham, Ryan Van Meter the Chair of the EWU Management Winner of the Best Technology Commercialization $3,000 Prize Department. In the interview, Teague shares Company Description - Our mission at Green Filter Guys (GFG) is to create a safer his professional journey and how his passion smoking experience that improves the act of smoking for the user, without taking for entrepreneurship, and specifically, the away the desired effects. At GFG, we designed a filter and tip combo that slides over study of what entrepreneurs do, led to his the end of joints and cigarettes. Our filters remove 60% of carbon monoxide, 80% of role in the development of the current EWU formaldehyde, and up to 99% of particulate matter from smoke. entrepreneurship program. GFG Pitch Video Eikasia - Alexys Preston GIVING TUESDAY Winner of the Best Scalable Business $2,000 Prize Giving Tuesday is a global day of generosity Co-Winner of the Best Business Pitch $1,000 Prize that took place on Dec. 1, 2020. This Company Description - Eikasia is a sonic interaction and design technology business year, EWU focused on raising funds to that focuses on innovative non-intrusive ways to transform the way musicians interact help students by finishing up scholarship with their tools. endowments. Several scholarship funds are very close to being endowed, and Spot - Chaz Hurd, Robert Moreno, Jose Garcia those scholarships were featured on the Winner of the Most Market Ready New Business $2,000 Prize EWU Giving Tuesday webpage. Company Description - An application that you can choose to park your vehicle at. The College of Business provides a Each parking spot is owned by an individual and rents it out for a specific amount of wide variety of scholarships to students time for money, much like Air BnB. This solves two problems, the first is for someone to studying in the business majors. Visit find a parking spot for their stuff (i.e. boat, car) and the person owning the land gets our website to see the list of College of paid! Business Scholarships and to read about Spot Pitch Video the generous donors whose gifts have made these scholarships possible. For more information on providing Winners of the Top-Ten Business of the Year $500 Prize: scholarship support Alliance of Adventures - Stephanie Henry or contributing Ambient Co. - Ashley Croney in other areas, Astra eSports Financial - Ben Bailey please contact Ken Beacon - Sukhleen Bolina Tucker, Director of Endolysins - Samual Hatfield, Toriana Kent, Daniel Carulli, Erin Smith Philanthropy, at The Food Guide - Kurt Lamon 509.359.7030 or by email at [email protected]. COBpromoted to Athletics Operations ALUMNI CAREER 3 Manager at Gonzaga University. ALUMNI IN THE NEWS SUCCESS Ali Abdullah Al Ahmed, UAE’s Katie Seigendall, ’20 MBA, was ambassador to France was appointed College of Business alumni work in a hired by Itron as a proposal analyst. variety of fields in the public and private the emirates’ permanent delegate to the Seigendall earned her Bachelor of United Nations Educational, Scientific sectors. Here are just a few career success Business Administration in finance in stories from our alumni: and Cultural Organisation (Unesco). 2019, and continued in the accelerated Al Ahmed holds a bachelor’s degree in online MBA program, earning her MBA Ashleigh Schultz recently earned her business administration from Eastern degree with a concentration in finance Washington University, and a master’s MBA from Eastern, and is now starting in 2020. the Doctor of Business Program at degree in strategic and security studies DePaul University in Chicago. Schultz is from the National Defence college in the Logan Morley, ’19 BAB management, UAE. Read the full story here. currently manager/controller at Macklin was hired as a recruiter for Aerotek in & Little, Inc., where she started her January 2020. career as an office assistant. Macklin & Kim Peone, ’04 BAB professional Little were supportive of Schultz as she accounting, is the first Native woman Abeer Nimri, ’19 BAB professional to serve as executive director of the pursued her undergraduate and graduate accounting, was hired in March 2020 degrees, and plan to continue to provide Southwestern Association of Indian Arts. as a manufacturing planner at Boeing, “An enrolled member of the Confederated support for her DBA program at DePaul. Seattle. Schultz earned her Bachelor in Business Tribes of the Colville Reservation and an Eastern Band Cherokee descendant, Administration in management in 2019, Audrey Seda, BAB ’18, is the founder and then continued in the accelerated Peone is the daughter of parents who met of Anchor Hope Films, and currently while attending the Institute of American online MBA program, earning her MBA works as a writer and post-production with a finance concentration in 2020. Indian Arts. She’s spent her career after assistant at CBS Television in Los graduating from Eastern Washington Angeles, California. Rogelio Alvarado, ’20 BAB management, University using her talents in marketing, finance and administration for various was recently hired by Avista as a customer Christopher Birge, ’13 BAB marketing, service representative.