
TechLab: Climate Change is a Company-in Residence program for emerging companies making a significant impact on the carbon balance of the planet. The program is an immersive learning experience for students as they work side by side with the companies on the deployment and market development of their breakthrough innovations.




Eva Mason
Computer Engineering | Class of 2023

Katie Sale
Chemical Engineering | Class of 2023
Martin Keighley - Team Mentor
CEO | Carbonfree Chemicals
Mapping Carbon Pricing and Trends
Produce a heat map of carbon pricing and trends across North America, Europe and Asia, and develop hypotheses as to how this will impact the strategic investment decisions of global industrial players operating CO2 emitting processes.

Nancy Zhou
Sustainable Systems and Environmental Engineering | Class of 2022

Joseph Shangraw
Materials Science and Engineering | Class of 2022

Anirudh Appachar
Materials Science and Engineering | Class of 2022

Kalina Matossian
Environmental Engineering | Class of 2022
Doug Wilson - Team Mentor
Operations Supply Chain & Strategy | Gridtential
Dan Miller - Team Mentor
Managing Director |Roda Group
Environmental & Economic Benefits of Bipolar Battery Technology
Determine environmental and economic benefits of Gridtential’s bipolar battery technology that is designed to be compatible with the world's existing lead battery infrastructure.

Dhruv Thakkar
Business Administration | Class of 2023

Kevin Thakkar
Mechanical Engineering | Class of 2022
Allan Gao - Team Mentor
Senior Process Engineer | LanzaTech
Creating Valuable Commodity Using Wast CO & CO2 Streams
Examine methods of separation and associated capital and operating costs in arriving at a proposed design for specific molecules used by the company.

Hanna Chen
Chemical Engineering | Class of 2024

Megan Martis
Energy Systems Engineering | Class of 2021

Ryan Needle
Mechanical Engineering | Class of 2023

Joey Self
Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration | Class of 2022
James Kahn - Team Mentor
Founder and Principal | SkyBaron
Products Made with Captured and Recycled Carbon
Building a marketplace for consumer products made with captured and upcycled CO2.

Brandon Gordon
Economics | Class of 2022

Jessica Liang
Public Policy and Business Administration | Class of 2023
Brett Henkel - Team Mentor
Director | Svante
Dan Miller - Team Mentor
Managing Director | Rhoda Group
Blue Hydrogen Opportunities
Market analysis for blue hydrogen opportunities.
FOR STUDENTS
EDUCATION HIGHLIGHTS
TechLab: Climate Change pairs emerging and scaling startups with top-tier graduate and undergraduate students studying a wide range of fields including computer science, data analytics, chemical engineering, material science, robotics, business, and sustainability.
The goal is to educate students through an immersive project that tackles an important problem for the company. Students learn the entrepreneurial process directly from the principles of the company using the company itself as the “living case study.”
FOR COMPANIES
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
By participating in the program, companies gain access to the University of Michigan resources and network as well as top student talent. The Center for Entrepreneurship seeks to help our students change the world by embedding them in this emerging field and the companies tackling one of the most pressing problems of our time.
TechLab: Climate Change is managed by U-M Center for Entrepreneurship, in partnership with the U-M Global Co2 Initiative.
If you're interested in partnering with the CFE, click the button to reach out and learn more about how.