Entrepreneurial Engineering
September 2005–January 2011
Primary recordPrinceton University · September 1, 2005 ↗“In my judgment, your entrepreneurial insight, generosity, and personal commitment made a distinctive contribution to these students’ education.”
Princeton University · Letter to AJ, September 16, 2026
Academic leadership · Princeton University
Also explore: Khubani BTE at NYU Stern ↓From the classroom to the factory floor.
AJ Khubani served as Chairman of the Industrial Directors Board for Princeton University’s Entrepreneurial Engineering program from September 2005 through January 2011. His contribution reached beyond the boardroom: helping develop and teach the course, mentoring student inventors, and opening doors to real manufacturing experience.
Professor Daniel M. Nosenchuck traces their collaboration to AJ’s guest lectures in Engineering Design (MAE 321) in 2004. Students’ enthusiastic response helped inspire a dedicated Entrepreneurial Engineering course. With Nosenchuck providing faculty leadership and academic oversight, AJ helped shape the entrepreneurial content and recruited inventors, business leaders and TeleBrands professionals as lecturers, mentors and reviewers—volunteering his time, expertise and resources.
The course launched in Fall 2005 as MAE 435 and became MAE 445, Entrepreneurial Engineering, in Fall 2008. AJ helped teach and mentor students across six fall-semester offerings, contributing lectures, curriculum development, project reviews and final team evaluations.
Turning a winning idea into a real-world education.
At the conclusion of many course offerings, AJ, in consultation with the Industrial Directors Board, selected a winning team and generally arranged an educational trip to China. He personally accompanied the students to manufacturing facilities, connecting their classroom projects with the practical realities of bringing products to market. The trips were fully funded by AJ personally and/or through TeleBrands.15
AJ also brought that commitment back to his alma mater, Montclair State. Explore his $500,000 commitment to student entrepreneurs ↓
For entrepreneurs, this is a powerful next chapter of success: share the experience you have earned, invite others into the process, and turn your relationships into opportunities for someone else to begin.