University of Dayton

Kenneth Bloemer is currently Director of the Innovation Center at the University of Dayton’’s School of Engineering. The Innovation Center recruits real world engineering challenges from industry, entrepreneurs and nonprofit organizations to be solved by multidisciplinary senior capstone teams. In addition, Ken teaches courses on innovation and is a frequent guest lecturer around campus. He has conducted innovation workshops for inventors at over 100 universities, federal labs and inventor clubs in the US, Canada & Scotland. Ken has a broad diversity of experience in Fortune 100 (Johnson & Johnson), business development and process improvement consulting (TechSolve), academia (University of Dayton, University of Cincinnati), government (U.S. Air Force) and his true passion–, inventing (Eureka! Ranch International and founder and managing partner of Bloemer, Meiser and Westerkamp, LLC). He has a Bachelor’s, Master’s and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering.