All professors are teachers, but some are also entrepreneurs. Three of note are mechanical engineering professors Stephen L. Dickerson, Wayne Book and Nader Sadegh, who together founded CAMotion Inc. in 1997 while working at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
They started CAMotion with a simple goal: develop cost-effective automation equipment for manufacturers so they wouldn’t offshore manufacturing to low-wage countries. The equipment’s key feature was proprietary control-algorithm technology that produced high-speed, accurate motion.