Industry 4.0/5.0 Value
Discover benefits of membership
- Based on the tested National Science Foundation (NSF) model for industry/university collaboration
- Provides a sustained collaborative platform for innovative solutions to industry and community
- Innovative applied solutions of basic research to specific problems
- Leveraging academia and industry collective resources, infrastructure, expertise, benefits, and risks
- Engagement with industry experts. Direct industry members’ input and oversight over project selection through Advisory Board vote
- Workforce development
- Customized short courses and educational program for industry members and their enterprise partners
- Talent pipeline: student training in a multidisciplinary environment through project work and undergraduate/graduate level internship
- Low overhead academic research
- High ROI for research dollars
- Shared/licensable IP and opportunities for follow-on/spinoff projects
- Access to faculty expertise across the campus