and $81K per year,” Briere wrote.
“The City will make no invest-
ment other than the land.”
During Monday’s meeting, Bri-
ere said the Ann Arbor airport is
the best place for the solar panel
to be installed because it is far
enough from residences, a con-
cern among some opposed to the
contract.
Scott Simons, a spokesman for
DTE Energy, said the contract
between the energy company and
Ann Arbor is part of a larger com-
pany goal to derive 10 percent of
the company’s produced energy
from renewable sources. Under
Michigan’s 2008 Clean, Renew-
able and Efficient Energy Act,
Michigan electricity suppliers are
required to include at least this
amount of renewable energy by
2015.
Ninety percent of DTE’s renew-
able energy will come from wind
energy, with the remaining 5 per-
cent derived from solar energy
and biofuels, Simons said.
DTE’s initiative to use more
renewable
energy
sources
includes customer-owned and
utility-owned programs. The util-
ity-owned programs require that
the company partner with a host
organization. In this case, the host
organization is the city of Ann
Arbor.
Simons said 20 utility-owned
sites like the one planned in Ann
Arbor have already been built and
another six will be finished by the
end of 2015.
DTE has similar solar panel
contracts including one with
Monroe County Community Col-
lege, Blue Cross Blue Shield in
Detroit, Mercy High School in
Farmington Hills, two with Gen-
eral Motors plants and two with
the University.
Simons cited Ann Arbor’s
interest in increasing the city’s
use of renewable energy as a
motivation for the councilmem-
bers to approve the contract.
Taylor said the solar panel ini-
tiative is part of a larger plan to
improve the city’s sustainability
efforts.
“We have a sustainability
framework which provides the
direction for some of these city
actions,” Taylor said. “We have
a climate action plan to increase
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acquiring companies, will
speak about how the issues
surrounding driverless cars
can help entrepreneurs learn
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start-ups.
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U-M alum Carol Jantsch,
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WHEN: Today at 8 p.m.
WHERE: Hill Auditorium
LSA student government hosts
discussion on entrepreneurship
Six alumni speak on
their experiences
building and
sustaining startups
By TANAZ AHMED
Daily Staff Reporter
The LSA Student Govern-
ment hosted an alumni connec-
tions event on entrepreneurship
and the liberal arts Thursday
night in the Michigan Union
Pond Room.
The event, called “Inno-
vate Your Future,” featured six
alumni guests.
Members
of
the
Student
Assembly’s
academic
affairs
committee,
LSA
sophomore
Julia Gips and LSA senior
Rachel
Rickles
created
the
event in light of the new LSA
entrepreneurship minor as well
as to facilitate relationships
between students and alumni.
“It’s a great way for students
with specific interests to meet
with the right people rather
than just having a general group
of alumni so that students can
really feel that they’re having
a meaningful experience,” Gips
said.
Josh
Buoy,
co-creator
of
brand consultancy firm Snow-
day, and Lisa Bee, owner of
Sweetwaters Coffee & Tea,
attended
the
event.
Jason
Harper, director of online strat-
egy for FordDirect, and Fiona
Ruddy,
director
of
Eastern
Market’s food access programs,
were also in attendance. Jeff
Sorenson, co-founder of opti-
Mize, and Rich Yoo, the vice
president of innovation at Matt-
son & Co., spoke as well.
“Our speakers are from a
diverse range of backgrounds,”
Rickles said. “They have diverse
entrepreneurial
experiences
and that’s something that we
wanted to highlight given the
relevance of the new minor.”
The event was organized in
a round robin style, where the
alumni rotated around small
groups of students and spent
approximately 10 minutes talk-
ing with each group. Students
were encouraged to approach
individual alumni after the
round robin discussions fin-
ished.
The speakers told students
about their reasons for becom-
ing entrepreneurs and how they
got to where they are today.
“I was frustrated with the
fact that so many students
would come up with awesome
ideas in classes I was in and
then classes would end and no
one would do anything,” Soren-
son said while discussing why
he created optiMize.
Many
of
the
alumni
explained the importance of
finding a niche and meeting a
need not currently being met
when considering creating a
startup. They also spoke about
entrepreneurship as a tool for
social improvement.
“No matter what you do or
who you work with, it’s about
trying to solve problems and
make lives better,” Buoy said.
The
passion
needed
to
become an entrepreneur was
discussed as well.
“If there’s not enough drive,
you can take a 100 business
classes and it’s not going to
help,” Bee said.
One attendee, LSA freshman
Josh Carn-Saferstein, noted his
passion for entrepreneurship
and the opportunities the event
offered.
“I just love everything about
entrepreneurship,” Carn-Safer-
stein said. “I know possibilities
are endless but you don’t realize
what you can do until you actu-
ally go out and do something.”
New brain
injury program
BY CARLY NOAH
New data science major set to
be launched next fall semester
Program will
incorporate
interdisciplinary
course options
By KATIE PENROD
Daily Staff Reporter
The University will offer a
new program in data science,
beginning in the fall semester of
2015.
According to an e-mail sent to
informatics students last month,
the new Data Science program
will ultimately take over the Data
Mining and Information Analy-
sis track within the informatics
major. All students already pur-
suing the latter track can still
finish it, or choose to switch over
to a major in data science. Com-
pared to the previous program,
Data Science will be more inter-
disciplinary in nature, including
courses in electrical engineering
and computer science.
Vijay Nair, a professor of sta-
tistics and industrial and opera-
tions engineering, as well as one
of several faculty leaders of this
new program, said faculty have
been discussing launching this
program for about two years. He
said they expect it to start small,
but added that it will likely grow
due to employer demand for can-
didates with data science train-
ing.
“There’s a lot of demand for
people who are training as data
scientists,” he said. “The field
covers a number of different
areas that no single department
right now in LSA offers.”
The program will start with
a major only, but Nair said he
expects a minor will follow soon
afterwards.
LSA junior Annemarie Ell-
man, who is currently on the
informatics Data Mining and
Information Analysis track, said
she thinks data science is a huge
field, especially for careers in
information systems.
According to the Michigan
Institute for Data Science web-
site, data science is now widely
accepted as a fourth mode of
scientific discovery, along with
theory, physical experimentation
and computational analysis. A
2011 McKinsey Global Institute
report estimated that the United
States will face a job shortage by
2018 of 140,000 to 190,000 peo-
ple with analytical skills.
Additionally, Ellman said the
program will open doors for Col-
lege of Engineering students. She
said while informatics is mainly
an LSA program, many of the
additional classes required for
Data Science are electrical engi-
neering and computer science
classes, which Engineering stu-
dents have to take within their
program already.
“Since data is a huge topic,
especially big data, I think it will
attract more College of Engi-
neering students interested in
pursuing something that focuses
more on data science,” she said.
LSA senior Reid Mechanick,
who is also on the data mining
track, said in his experience,
employers have found itim-
portant that he knows how to
understand and analyze data.
Though he is a senior and
already finished with most of
his requirements, he said many
younger students he has talked
with are considering switching
over to the Data Science pro-
gram, and there’s lots of student
interest in the program.
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