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Harold N. Kamine ’78, founder of Kamine Development Corporation (KDC) and a member of the Board of Trustees, will present this year’s Judith A. Resnik Memorial Lecture 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 23, in Oechsle Auditorium.
The lecture, “Engineering & Entrepreneurship,” will examine the possible pitfalls and skills needed for engineers to begin their own businesses. It will be focused toward students in Introduction to Engineering classes and first-year engineering students will be given seating priority. Additional seating will be available, but limited.
Drawing on his own experience growing up in a family business and starting several highly successful technology companies, Kamine will discuss the personal qualities and professional background necessary to be a successful entrepreneur in the field of engineering and technology.
Kamine will be the tenth Resnik lecturer since 1996 to link his speech with students in Introduction to Engineering classes. The purpose of the lecture has been helping first-year engineering students understand that the concepts they are learning in the classroom are relevant to real-world engineering problems. Previous Resnik lecturers have been President Emeritus Arthur J. Rothkopf’55 and Charles Wessner ’69, an expert on international technology cooperation and investment.
Kamine has founded several technology companies including KDC, which pioneered the independent power business in the 1980s, and KMC Telecom, which with more than 1,500 employees and revenues greater than $500 million per year, was the largest privately held competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) in the nation. He is also the chairman of GettingHired, LCC, a company which he founded in 2004 to match quality job candidates with specific employer needs.
Graduating summa cum laude from Lafayette with a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering, Kamine was a first team Academic All‑American Baseball player. He and his wife, Kathleen Coogan Kamine ’78, a civil engineering graduate, remain actively involved in the Lafayette community. In recognition of their major gift to the Lafayette Leadership Campaign, the multipurpose gymnasium in the Allan P. Kirby Sports Center was named for them. Harold Kamine received the Clifton P. Mayfield ’09 Outstanding Young Alumni Award in 1993. He is also a registered Professional Engineer in the state of New Jersey.
The Resnik Memorial Lecture is named in honor of astronaut Judith A. Resnik, an electrical engineer who lost her life in the Challenger space shuttle disaster on January 28, 1986. The annual lecture is sponsored by the Farber Memorial Endowment Fund created in April 1994 by a gift from the late Jack Farber ’31.