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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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, […]
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
Disappointment: You’re Not So Novel Saturday was a rough day for the team. As of Friday night we believed we had three great ideas that would be easy to prototype over the weekend. Idea one: A temperature measurement patch with wireless transmission that could be placed on the forehead of babies to monitor fevers and […]
Right up front I want to apologize for poor grammar syntax etc. in this article, but the schedule is tight and we have a lot of work to accomplish in the next two days. I wanted to be sure to share something about the first day of Startup Weekend Tucson Instinct Our keynote speaker on […]
The Arizona Daily Star published a nice article today highlighting an event called Startup Weekend Tucson. The inagural Startup Weekend event is looking to be tremendous. I really believe this is the type of entrepreneurial invigoration that Tucson needs to be successful! I am certain that several ideas are going to come out of the […]
