Flexing Their Muscles: Building a successful business partnership [Career Advisor: Experiences from the Real World]

What do you get when you pair a passionate and intelligent engineering professor at the University of Maryland with two ambitious and hard working recent engineering graduates? FlexEl.This company develops a novel, high-capacity, rechargeable thin film battery. IEEE Fellow Dr. Martin Peckerar, professor of microelectronic engineering at the University of Maryland´s A. James Clark School of Engineering and the brains that helped launch the company, tells us how it all started.