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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 22, 1983)
Wednesday, June 22, 1983/The Battalion/Page 3 A&M institute promotes technology, inventions I ® by Jennifer Carr Battalion Staff ov. Mark White signed a bill Friday which created a new insti tute within the Texas A&M Sys- ■ tern — an institute designed to I yt develop and promote new tech- [ ] nology. I 1^ ■ Dr. Arthur Porter, director of the Texas Engineering Ex periment Station, said PEES ot urnJ! .had the authority to establish the erlyanVllnstitute for Ventures in New >n of technology, INVENT, which t$ wouiaP as been in operation since V toNovember, but submitted the ear bill to the Legislature to give the ,u Bogram added support and ' thet " t Cib.li.y. ms contr® himacto.*i| INVENT is expected to cre ate jobs in Texas by screening inpir W duCl P rocesses anc ^ business < last mcl, ies Wrijl: as Foleyj ebeeaaj 'ship has | :1 been® of the tl opportunities and helping en- treprenuers execute potentially successful ideas, INVENT dire ctor Franklin J. Sekera said. The screening process is divided into four stages, and involves both engineering and business ex perts. The first stage is the evalua tion of the idea. Experts deter mine whether the idea will work and be marketable. If not, the idea is eliminated. Ideas may also be eliminated if Texas A&M doesn’t have the faculty, exper tise or facilities required to ex ecute the idea. Sekera said 90 percent of all ideas and inventions are elimin ated in this stage. The second stage is the re search. About a weeks’ worth of research and market studies are conducted to further determine if an idea is viable. The third stage is the creation of a plan. If an idea is successful, a program plan is designed for the product which includes ex actly what role INVENT will play in developing and market ing the product. An agreement is defined between INVENT and the entrepreneur. The fourth stage is the im plementation of the plan. Sekera estimates that only 2 per cent of the plans submitted will reach stage four. Of approximately 200 ideas submitted since the program’s beginning, two are in stage three, and three are in stage four. The plans in stage four in clude a new oil drilling techni que, a water purifying techni que, and g new combustion en gine prototype. jpfficer rams car, injuring Jwo in fatal suicide attempt locrats :| 1 M» u / , w e , d , I> f ess Inte ^ na,ional I II — I wo people 1 were in critical condition Tues- to take ^ ^ victims 0 f a troubled iidingprdp 0 ii ceman who rammed their t Hr on a dark highway in an ap| arent suicide attempt, and then shot himself to death. ;e vS th the eld ght toiM hat has An autopsy conducted in Haarillo showed officer Vaughn Maddox, 30, suffered only minor injuries after he col lided with a car on U.S. 385 north of Dimmitt shortly after midnight Monday. The autopsy showed he died of a bullet wound to the heart, fired from his service revolver. A witness said Maddox’s pat rol car appeared as if out of no where with its headlights off and rammed directly into the other car. Department of Public Safety spokesman David Wells said a suicide note was found in the patrol car. The contents were not disclosed. Two people in the other car — Robert Youngjr., 47, of Mid land, and his nephew, Michael Stephenson, 13, of Clayton, N.M. — were transported about 60 miles to Lubbock Methodist Hospital, where they were in cri tical condition in the surgical in tensive care unit a hospital spokeswoman said. Young’s wife, Jean, 45, was treated for minor injuries and released. Wells said an inquest had been ordered by Dimmitt Justice of the Peace Marshall Young to determine officially • whether Maddox’s death would be classi fied as a suicide. Maddox, a veteran west Texas police officer who pre viously worked in Odessa and Plainview, had been suspended from the Dumas force on Dec. 18, 1981, following an investiga tion into eight arson fires. Offi cials said Maddox had disco vered or reported three of the fires. save 9 4 to 9 8 on fun-filled casuals for juniors Orig. S 11 - 5 27.. .7.99 -17.99 Top off your summer with flair! Choose our cool and breezy cotton sheeting rompers with the latest fashion detailing,' brightly-col ored minis plus tie-front, camp or crop-tops and more great styles, sizes 3-11, S-M-L. Tops, orig. Tl - s 18 7.99 -13.99 Minis, orig. s 17 - s 22 12.99 -16.99 Rompers, orig. s 23 - s 27 16.99 -17.99 ^Dillard's shop Dillard's monday thru Saturday 10-9, post oak mall, college station Dillard's welcomes the American Express Card