Metcalfe to serve as visiting innovation fellow for 2015-16 academic year
Ethernet inventor and 3Com founder Robert Metcalfe ’68 will become a visiting innovation fellow at MIT for one week a month during the 2015-16 academic year, engaging in entrepreneurship activities at the MIT Innovation Initiative and in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). As visiting innovation fellow, Metcalfe succeeds former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, who held the post this spring. Metcalfe, a professor of innovation in the Cocknell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, will engage with MIT students and mentor them in startup activities; participate in campus innovation events; hold office hours; participate in innovation roundtables; and serve as an advisor to the Lab for Innovation Science and Policy. He will play a significant role in helping to shape Start6, an EECS-launched workshop that immerses students and postdocs in innovation and entrepreneurship, providing them with the resources to translate their passion into needed technology...