UB Names Massing Director of Technology Transfer Services

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Daniel E. Massing has been named campus director of technology transfer services in the Office of the Vice President for Research at the University at Buffalo.

Massing has served as assistant and associate director of technology transfer services at UB since 1992.

The mission of the Office of Technology Transfer Services is to make UB inventions available for public benefit and to place those technologies or inventions with local industry to support economic development in the Western New York region.

Massing¹s new responsibilities involve managing all activities relating to the disclosure, development, marketing, protection and licensing of intellectual and tangible property developed by UB faculty and staff, including the filing and prosecution of patent applications in the U.S. and foreign countries.

He has served as director of engineering at Keller Technology Corp., where he was responsible for engineering and design of plant automation projects. He also was employed at Kistler Instrument Corp. as vice president of manufacturing and at Calspan Corp., where he was senior mechanical engineer, serving as project manager for research and development programs in transportation safety.

Massing was the recipient of the 1980 Engineering Excellence Award from the U.S. Department of Transportation for studies improving the response of anthropomorphic crash test dummies.

He chairs the Survey, Statistics and Metrics Committee of the Association of University Technology Managers.

Massing earned a master's degree in engineering and a bachelor's degree in electrical and mechanical engineering, both from UB.

A Buffalo native, he lives in Williamsville.