Release date: Nov. 18, 2008
News & Public Affairs contact: Randy Weiler, 615-898-2919 or jweiler@mtsu.edu
University Honors College contact: Dr. John Vile, 615-898-2152 or jvile@mtsu.edu
Leading Entrepreneur Martin Offers Techonomics Class in Spring Semester
(MURFREESBORO) — Dr. Lee Martin, chairman of Abunga.com LLC and a managing member of Clarity Resources, a mentor capitalist group specializing in business architecture, is scheduled to teach a class at MTSU in the spring titled “Techonomics: Anticipating the Future.”
The class, which is cross-listed as Honors 4600, Business Communication and Entrepreneurship 4200 and Management and Marketing 4990, will meet from 2:20 until 3:45 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays in Honors 218 of the Paul W. Martin Sr. Honors Building.
The class is especially designed for students who seek leadership roles in their communities, business or service organizations. It will provide students with a framework to analyze trends in their fields of interest by quantifying the effects of technological advancement on their professional/organizational endeavors.
“We all know things are changing rapidly — but why?” Martin said. “Techonomics explores the key advances in technology that are the driving force in
how 21st century organizations or changing.”
Techonomics, a new course in the Honors College, gives students the analytical
perspective to understand the massive changes in the economy and anticipate future trends, Martin said.
“The lessons taught in this class stem from 20 years as a technology entrepreneur — lessons I had to learn the hard way … from experience,” he said. “One of the textbooks, ‘Techonomics,’ is the expression of this journey in writing.”
Martin earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Tennessee and his master’s and Ph.D. from Purdue University. He founded and directed the Tennessee Technopreneurial Leadership Center at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville in 2000. He has published more than 20 technical reports and scholarly articles, holds 22 U.S. patents and has received two “R&D (Research & Development) Magazine” 100 awards for innovative new products.
Martin is the author of Techonomics: Theory of Industrial Evolution and has previously taught at the University of Tennessee and Cumberland University.
Dr. John Vile, dean of the University Honors College, observes that one innovative feature of Martin’s class is that “Dr. Martin will be interviewing industry CEOs, and students enrolled in the class will be able to interact with these individuals through audio/video hookups.”
Vile adds that the class presents students with a remarkable opportunity to interact with a major leader in his field.
The class is especially designed for upper-division students with business, leadership or technical backgrounds, Vile said.
Lee Martin and his brother, Paul W. Martin Jr., an MTSU alumnus (B.S. ’75), provided $2 million that was matched by the university that went toward the construction of the Paul W. Martin Sr. Honors Building that opened Dec. 17, 2003, and saw classes held there starting in spring 2004.
For MTSU news and information, go to mtsunews.com.
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Other sources: Dr. Jim Burton, dean, Jennings A. Jones College of Business, 898-2764;
Dr. Jill Austin, chair, management and marketing, 898-2736;
Dr. Phil Mathis, former Honors College dean, 898-2152.
To request an interview with Dr. Lee Martin, contact Honors College Dean John Vile at 615-898-2152 or Randy Weiler in the Office of News and Public Affairs at 615-898-5616.
A black-and-white .jpg of Lee Martin is provided.Release date: Nov. 18, 2008
News & Public Affairs contact: Randy Weiler, 615-898-2919 or jweiler@mtsu.edu
University Honors College contact: Dr. John Vile, 615-898-2152 or jvile@mtsu.edu
Leading Entrepreneur Martin Offers Techonomics Class in Spring Semester
(MURFREESBORO) — Dr. Lee Martin, chairman of Abunga.com LLC and a managing member of Clarity Resources, a mentor capitalist group specializing in business architecture, is scheduled to teach a class at MTSU in the spring titled “Techonomics: Anticipating the Future.”
The class, which is cross-listed as Honors 4600, Business Communication and Entrepreneurship 4200 and Management and Marketing 4990, will meet from 2:20 until 3:45 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays in Honors 218 of the Paul W. Martin Sr. Honors Building.
The class is especially designed for students who seek leadership roles in their communities, business or service organizations. It will provide students with a framework to analyze trends in their fields of interest by quantifying the effects of technological advancement on their professional/organizational endeavors.
“We all know things are changing rapidly — but why?” Martin said. “Techonomics explores the key advances in technology that are the driving force in
how 21st century organizations or changing.”
Techonomics, a new course in the Honors College, gives students the analytical
perspective to understand the massive changes in the economy and anticipate future trends, Martin said.
“The lessons taught in this class stem from 20 years as a technology entrepreneur — lessons I had to learn the hard way … from experience,” he said. “One of the textbooks, ‘Techonomics,’ is the expression of this journey in writing.”
Martin earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Tennessee and his master’s and Ph.D. from Purdue University. He founded and directed the Tennessee Technopreneurial Leadership Center at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville in 2000. He has published more than 20 technical reports and scholarly articles, holds 22 U.S. patents and has received two “R&D (Research & Development) Magazine” 100 awards for innovative new products.
Martin is the author of Techonomics: Theory of Industrial Evolution and has previously taught at the University of Tennessee and Cumberland University.
Dr. John Vile, dean of the University Honors College, observes that one innovative feature of Martin’s class is that “Dr. Martin will be interviewing industry CEOs, and students enrolled in the class will be able to interact with these individuals through audio/video hookups.”
Vile adds that the class presents students with a remarkable opportunity to interact with a major leader in his field.
The class is especially designed for upper-division students with business, leadership or technical backgrounds, Vile said.
Lee Martin and his brother, Paul W. Martin Jr., an MTSU alumnus (B.S. ’75), provided $2 million that was matched by the university that went toward the construction of the Paul W. Martin Sr. Honors Building that opened Dec. 17, 2003, and saw classes held there starting in spring 2004.
For MTSU news and information, go to mtsunews.com.
###
Other sources: Dr. Jim Burton, dean, Jennings A. Jones College of Business, 898-2764;
Dr. Jill Austin, chair, management and marketing, 898-2736;
Dr. Phil Mathis, former Honors College dean, 898-2152.
To request an interview with Dr. Lee Martin, contact Honors College Dean John Vile at 615-898-2152 or Randy Weiler in the Office of News and Public Affairs at 615-898-5616.
A black-and-white .jpg of Lee Martin is provided.
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