Tsinghua Alumni Association Festival Salon 11/24 (Sat) 2-4pm — Returning to China to start a business‏

Tsinghua Alumni Association Festival Salon 11/24 (Sat) 2-4pm — Returning to China to start a business‏ In order to enhance exchanges among members and provide a platform for academic and career advancement for Chinese science and technology professionals in Alberta...

In order to enhance exchanges among members and provide a platform for academic and career advancement for Chinese science and technology professionals in Alberta, the Tsinghua University Alumni Association’s Alberta branch has begun to hold a series of professional salon activities, covering new technology trends, job hunting, career development, technology entrepreneurship, etc.

Because of Thanksgiving, some alumni and family members of alumni working in China will return to the United States to celebrate the holiday. We took this opportunity to invite Jun Shen, who has multiple experiences in business, academia and returning to overseas entrepreneurship, to share with alumni his entrepreneurial experience in China and the development atmosphere of domestic new technology and new enterprises. After the speeches, there will be a festive tea party and games for alumni to mingle.

The specific agenda is as follows:

Time: 2:00pm~4:00pm, 11/24/2012 (Saturday)

Location: Goldwater (GWC) 487, ASU ( Street Address: 650 E. Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ 85287 )

Topic: High-tech Entrepreneurship in China

Agenda:

2:00~3:00pm Jun Shen Speech and Questions

3:00~4:00pm Holiday social

Speaker: Jun Shen (Introduction attached)

> All members of the Tsinghua Alumni Association’s Alberta branch and other interested non-members are welcome to participate in this event. This event is particularly beneficial to industry professionals and students interested in finding development opportunities in China. Alumni who are interested in the activities of the Alumni Association are also welcome to attend the tea party afterwards to make suggestions for the development of the Alumni Association.

If you have any ideas that you want to share with other members via the Salons, Please send Hongyu Yu ( hongyuyu@asu.edu ) an email so we can follow up and have you as the speaker/panel in the future ones.

With kind regards,

TAAA Executive Committee

Speaker Bio

Jun Shen received his PhD in Physics from the Univeristy of Notre Dame in 1990 and became a member of the technical staff at the Motorola Corporate Research Laboratory in Phoenix the same year. He moved to Arizona State University (ASU) in 1996 where he held a faculty position until 2006 when he dedicated full time to his entrepreneurial activities in the U.S. In fall, 2008, he started a new venture independently. His China operation started a year later focusing on a new generation of micro-magnetic relay products. Jun is an avid inventor, has an extensive invention portfolio. He received several awards in his career for his technical achievements. He is a world leading expert on microelectromechanical systems especially micro-magnetic switches.