The TENWEST Impact Festival is one of Arizona’s leading innovation conferences. Startup Tucson celebrated its 25th anniversary of TENWEST’s most popular event, the IdeaFunding Pitch Competition this last October. Established and led by Startup Tucson, and with new co-lead University of Arizona Center for Innovation (UACI), the TENWEST Impact Festival is a multi-day professional conference […]
Twice a year, Tucson Young Professionals (TYP) partners with Southern Arizona Leadership Council (SALC) to provide mentorship to Tucson’s best, brightest, and most motivated future leaders in our community. The selected mentees are paired with experienced regional leaders and CEOs for a twelve-week program that is a terrific learning experience for both the mentor and […]
November 8th, 2022 marked the 20-year anniversary for the Governors Celebration of Innovation Awards and Tech Show. It was an enthusiastic evening celebrating Arizona’s technology leaders at the Phoenix Convention Center where 500 guests gathered to enjoy a strolling dinner, tech showcase, and awards ceremony. Marcus Engineering was honored to be the recipient of the […]
At Marcus Engineering, the opportunity for the brightest students is only limited by their drive, not by their age or education. The Marcus Engineering Internship Program is unmatched as we allow high school and college interns to participate in real design and in some cases lead projects with real customers. We are able to provide […]
On November 5th, generations of trailblazing alumni engineers, faculty, friends, and family gathered to celebrate the 2021 Engineering Alumni Awards at the 58th Annual Engineers Breakfast. For over half a century, the UofA College of Engineering has birthed talent, innovation, and mentorship which has given rise to the evergreen array of tech leadership stemming from […]
Turning solar farms into gardens, and boat engines into renewable generators are just a few of the business plans coalescing in downtown Tucson AZ at the Arizona FORGE. Ideas like these and their underlying business plans for growth are tested and evolved at the “FORGE,” a program at the University of Arizona. FORGE opened […]
Mark Omo will be giving a presentation on Qi Wireless Charging at Microchip Technology’s 2019 Worldwide MASTERs conference, along with Santosh Bhandarkar from Microchip. Their class is 23104 PC12: Fundamentals of Wireless Power, and if you’ll be at MASTERs this year, you should check it out. To accompany his presentation, Mark developed a spreadsheet that […]
Who would think high school students could join the workforce as engineers at such a young age. Marcus Engineering has a vision of building Arizona’s technology ecosystem through their innovative internship programs focusing younger and younger every year. “Technology is becoming more and more competitive. If we want to stay on top we have to […]
Earlier this year, Dr. Patrick Marcus was invited to be the keynote speaker at IBM’s internal Hackathon here in Tucson. Hackathons are a place where people from all types of technical backgrounds have the opportunity to come together and solve a problem. These enthusiastic engineers show us time and time again that the bar can […]
This year, Dr. Patrick Marcus, was invited to be a guest speaker at the McGuire Summer Academy Program at the University of Arizona. The McGuire Summer Academy Program is a program designed to help young people cultivate their entrepreneurial skills. Students from various high schools are invited to live on the campus grounds for one […]
