Corporate Sponsored Projects Program

Program Description

The Corporate Sponsored Projects Program (IE 480) is an industry-university partnership serving to integrate design, manufacturing, service engineering and business realities into the engineering curriculum. Interdisciplinary teams of students tackle problems/projects sponsored by industrial clients. This program challenges students to apply the knowledge and tools acquired during their undergraduate education to the solution of real engineering problems. The program provides a unique opportunity for industry to partner with Penn State to help educate the next generation of "World Class Engineers". Students have at their disposal a distinguished group of faculty and state-of-the-art facilities for design, prototyping and production.

Program Benefits

Fresh ideas, solutions to real problems
Low cost, low risk investigation of “back-burner” ideas
Identifying talent for employment
Corporate exposure on campus
Project management experience for your junior staff engineers
Improving engineering education at Penn State
The mental stimulation of interacting with bright, energetic, creative young minds
Networking with other companies and Penn State faculty