Propel September 2021 Newsletter

Meet Arsh Haque, New Director of the Portland State Business Accelerator

Arsh Haque is a national-award-winning founder, coach, and storyteller who has founded four successful startup companies. They began their new role at the Portland State Business Accelerator on August 23, 2021, bring with them a wealth of practical and academic experience in entrepreneurship and DEI.

Center for Entrepreneurship Program Highlight: The Cube

In the Fall of 2021, the Center for Entrepreneurship will welcome its third cohort of students to The Cube, an incubator for student-led businesses. The Cube’s mission is to prepare students and their ideas for the product market.

WSU I-Corps: Bridging the gap between the lab and commercialization

The Washington State University Site of the National Science Foundation's I-Corps program supports innovation at Portland State and beyond by helping faculty, staff and students move their ideas out of the lab and into the marketplace. Completing the program has given two PSU startup companies, AirOmatix, and Lite Devices, the foundation needed to turn their innovations into thriving businesses.

Spotlight: Portland State's Electronics Prototyping Lab

Available to students, staff, and faculty, Portland State University's Electronics Prototyping Lab has everything needed to build electronics and prototypes. The lab's open-door policy allows students from all disciplines the opportunity to turn their ideas into products and enables future engineers to learn valuable job skills.