The KEEN Industrial Entrepreneurship Forums offer our students a chance to interact with manufacturing and industry entrepreneurs. Sponsored by the Kern Family Foundation's KEEN Industrial Entrepreneurship Initiative grant, each lecture is promoted throughout our campus, broadcast live on our website, and subsequently made available for download. For an optimal viewing experience, we strongly recommend using the Firefox browser, which can be downloaded here.
George M. Thomas is president of Contemporary Controls, a company that designs and manufactures industrial networking products. The company has operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and China. Mr. Thomas received his BSEE and MSEE degrees from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He completed the American Electronics Association/Stanford University Executive Institute for managing high-tech companies. Mr. Thomas has served as a director on several boards, including the MIDCON Electronics Show and Convention, the IEEE-Chicago Section, the STD Bus Manufacturer's Group, the ARCNET Trade Association, the American Electronics Association, the Chicago Manufacturing Center, and the Management Association of Illinois. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, a past chairman of the Chicago Section, and a senior member of the Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society.