SCALE Expo 2025

Students Pitch Business Ideas to "Sharks" in Entrepreneurship Challenge

The 2022 SCALE Connect conference ended in a whirlwind of group project presentations and awards ceremonies. One of the team-based challenges of the conference is the annual entrepreneurial challenge competition: a product development and pitch challenge sponsored by the ASCM Massachusetts Minuteman chapter, in the style of the hit TV show "Shark Tank". Randomly assigned student teams propose and pitch solutions to problems on the UN Global Issues List.

Thesis/Capstone

A State-Level Capacity Utilization Analysis of the U.S. Natural Gas Transmission Pipeline System and Risk Management for a Gas-Fueled Nation

The U.S. energy portfolio is set to undergo drastic change in the coming decades. Policies to reduce emissions combined with growing demand for energy will test existing infrastructure. Large reserves of shale gas provide an attractive near-term solution to help states transition from coal-powered plants to cleaner fuel. Most commercial production growth in shale gas occurred in the early 2000’s. Yet most of the natural gas pipeline system was constructed long before the “shale gas revolution”. Almost half of all interstate transmission pipeline mileage is over 50 years old. In order to best

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