{"id":203590,"date":"2012-06-14T13:01:27","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T13:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=12113"},"modified":"2025-01-30T23:17:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T04:17:34","slug":"alumnus-rich-tehrani-ponders-uconn-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2012\/06\/alumnus-rich-tehrani-ponders-uconn-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus Rich Tehrani Ponders UConn Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/tehrani2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12165 img-responsive lazyload\" title=\"tehrani2\" data-src=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/tehrani2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"249\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 197px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 197\/249;\" \/><\/a>UConn Computer Science &amp; Engineering alumnus Rich Tehrani (&#8217;89), CEO and president of Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC), recently wrote in his blog about the value of a UConn engineering education.\u00a0 TMC is a publishing and trade show company focusing exclusively on the rapidly growing voice\/data convergence and computer telephony integration. Rich founded the first magazine focused on VoIP in 1998 and, as President of TMC, is the owner of the registered trademark for the term Internet Telephony. In 1999, he launched the Internet Telephony Conference &amp; Expo and has watched it grow into the best attended VoIP show in the world. Tehrani is also the founder of TMCnet, a communications\/technology portal, <em>SIP Magazine<\/em> and <em>IMS Magazine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Read Rich\u2019s UConn blog, \u201cWhat UCONN Engineering School Advances Mean to New Students\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/facebook\/what-uconn-engineering-school-advances-means-to-new-students.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UConn Computer Science &amp; Engineering alumnus Rich Tehrani (&#8217;89), CEO and president of Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC), recently wrote in his blog about the value of a UConn engineering education. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":18639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2110],"class_list":["post-203590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 23:11:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224847,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203590\/revisions\/224847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/18639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203590"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=203590"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=203590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}