Lab to Market with Isaac Maya, PhD, PE (Nuclear)

Season 1 episode plan

• Ep 1

  Why most R&D never becomes a product (and the five gates that change that)

  Topic: Technology Transition & Commercialization (Lab-to-Market) · Planned

• Ep 2

  TRLs in plain English: from lab bench to field demo

  Topic: Technology Transition & Commercialization (Lab-to-Market) · Planned

• Ep 3

  Bayh-Dole for founders: who owns federally funded inventions

  Topic: Patents, IP Protection & Bayh-Dole · Planned

• Ep 4

  Your first SBIR Phase I: reading a DoD topic like a reviewer

  Topic: SBIR/STTR & Federal Funding Proposals · Planned

• Ep 5

  Commercialization plans that SBIR reviewers believe

  Topic: SBIR/STTR & Federal Funding Proposals · Planned

• Ep 6

  Provisional patents: what a $130 small-entity filing does and does not buy you

  Topic: Patents, IP Protection & Bayh-Dole · Planned

• Ep 7

  Prototype development plans: lessons from two consumer products

  Topic: Product Development, Prototyping & Innovation Methods · Planned

• Ep 8

  SMRs and the commercialization gap

  Topic: Nuclear Energy, SMRs & Space Nuclear Power/Propulsion · Planned

• Ep 9

  Space nuclear power and propulsion: the opportunity for small businesses

  Topic: Nuclear Energy, SMRs & Space Nuclear Power/Propulsion · Planned

• Ep 10

  Forming a Florida startup the right way

  Topic: Startup Formation, Business Plans & Legal Templates · Planned

• Ep 11

  Lessons from teaching engineering project management at USC

  Topic: Project & Program Management (ISE 515, Dekker seminars) · Planned

• Ep 12

  Earned value in plain English: CPI, SPI and what they tell a program manager

  Topic: Earned Value Management (EVM) · Planned

• Ep 13

  Why earned value fails on R&D programs (and how to fix it)

  Topic: Earned Value Management (EVM) · Planned

• Ep 14

  Reactor theory for non-nuclear engineers: criticality in 20 minutes

  Topic: Nuclear Reactor Theory (AME582 Nuclear Reactor Physics) · Planned