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IME Department Team Wins Second Place in FSU's Jim Moran Institute's InNOLEvation Challenge

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By IME Press Release
Spring 2012

*Left to right*, NP Group team members, **Tarik Dickens**, **David Olawale**, industrial engineering doctoral candidates and **Professor Okenwa Okoli**, Professor IME and Associate Technical Director, HPMI.

Nanotech Patronas Group (NP Group) placed second out of ten competitors in the Shark Tank round of Florida State University's InNOLEvation Challenge, walking away with $55,000 in cash and in-kind services. NP Group comprises industrial engineering doctoral candidates from the Florida A&M University/FSU College of Engineering. Team members include Ph.D. candidates Tarik Dickens and David Olawale. NP Group is in a damage monitoring and prevention business that uses innovative triboluminescence sensor systems for engineering structures, such as aircrafts, buildings and bridges. The company was founded in 2011 after more than five years of research and development on the triboluminescence sensor systems.

For more information and a description of the 10 finalists, see the FSU news link.