The Silicon Valley Business of Engineering is a great meet-up group put together by
Elise Engelhardt (LinkedIn profile here ) who, in my opinion is a great power networker and leader. Among many others, I attended the first meeting today and it was a great success!

The event was sponsored by two groups, Ozen Engineering (website here) and STM, aptly named Service To Mankind ( website here ). Instead of using their generous sponsorship as a platform to rave about themselves, both Metin Ozen of Ozen Engineering and Floyd Bertagnolli of STM kept their presentations very brief and informative (I learned something exciting, which I hope to share with you in a separate post).

The group's future events would be a great resource for engineers, not only medical device folks, but others as well. I ran into a host of service providers, consultants and so on. It was inspiring to meet some very entrepreneurial folks as well.

I networked with a bunch of folks, some of whom were kind enough to share in great detail how they charged for consulting, how they came up with the plans and so on. I also spent a good deal of time talking to another former Apple employee on the care they pay in engineering their products. The whole event was very educational for me. I hope to run into some of you at the next event!

I think this is a great beginning and a wonderful resource for engineers in the Silicon Valley, to carry on, as the title says, with the business of engineering.

Local Resources

1. Silicon Valley Business of Engineering

http://www.meetup.com/BusinessofEngineering/

2. Silicon Valley Engineering Council on LinkedIn

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=46760&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr

3. MedDevice Engineers, Bay Area on LinkedIn

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2126&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr

4. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Santa Clara Valley on LinkedIn

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1300&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr

5. "sfmedengineers" on Yahoo! Groups

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sfmedengineers/

Do you know of other resources? If so, let me know and I will post them here.

Until next time...