SJSU College of Business Alumni Association

The U.S. Small Business Administration has selected the San Jose State University College of Business as the lead agency for Northern California in the nation's Small Business Development Center Program (SBDC). The SBDC extends a wide range of counseling, training and technical assistance to new, emerging and existing small businesses. The state of California administered the program until a recent decision by the SBA to divide it into six regions. The College of Business is to coordinate activities at nine service centers in communities west of Sacramento and within an area covering Monterey County to the south and the Oregon border to the north. Coinciding with the SBA's selection of the College of Business is the establishment of the Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship at the College of Business. This research effort will serve as an additional source of expertise for potential entrepreneurs, especially for students and faculty at San Jose State. "Entrepreneurship, innovation and sound management are at the core of what the College of Business teaches and, more importantly, practices," says College of Business Dean David Conrath. "We ... see this as an opportunity to help effect positive change in business conditions in communities large and small."

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San Jose State College of Business has been selected by the U.S. Small business Administration to act as the Lead Center to help manage the SBA's consulting and training. The Northern California Small Business Development Centers are an integrated network of nine Service Centers located within a 14 county region. This network of knowledge assets and training facilities provides resources for individuals with existing businesses and those considering starting a business.

SJSU is ranked 8TH nationally in the number of bachelor's degree awarded to minority students in 2001-02, according to a "Top 100" list of colleges and universities compiled by the publication, Black Issues in Higher Education, based on data from the U.S. Department of Education. In addition, SJSU ranked 6th in awarding bachelor’s degrees to Asian Americans, and for particular disciplines, was 2nd in business, 4th in engineering and 7th in computer science. See http://www.calstate.edu/PA/news/bissue03.shtml.

Numerical Engines, the first place winner in this year's Silicon Valley Business Plan Competition:

Numerical Engines, represented by Kevin Gee and husband-and-wife team members and SJSU MBA students Anuj (he was the Project Director) and Nidhi Jain, won $2,000 and 6 months of rent-free incubator space at either the Environmental Business Cluster or the Software Business Cluster (details for this prize will be worked out soon.)

Numerical Engines will allow for low-cost numerically-intensive computing using Graphical Processing Units.

More good news for our SVBPC winners. Like last year's winner, Yakima Filter's Mohamed Aslem Ali, the Numerical Engines team was selected to compete in the National Business Plan Competition at the Emerging Business Leadership Summit (EBLS) of the US Department of Commerce, Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) in Washington, DC.

We are quite pleased that Anuj Jain represented Numerical Engines in this prestigious event and received the second place award in the overall competition. We offer them our congratulations for a job well done.

The two-day comprehensive Summit held during National MED Week 2004 explores the challenges and opportunities of entrepreneurship. Workshop topics focus on access to capital development, access to markets, leadership skills and emerging trends in the domestic and global marketplace. In addition to these exciting activities, students will participate in a forum on Leadership.

Immediately following EBLS, Anuj attended the 22nd Annual National MED Week Conference. Students selected to attend are granted a full Conference package (including transportation and hotel accommodations) to participate in EBLS from September 5-10, 2004.

This timeframe includes the National MED Week Conference, which is scheduled for September 7-10, 2004. EBLS and National MED Week will be held at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C.

College of Business Alumni Association

San Jose State University

One Washington Square

Business Tower 050

San Jose, CA 95192-0068

Telephone: (408) 924-3430

Fax (408) 924-3594

E-mail: balumni@cob.sjsu.edu