INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPS

Industrial Partners contribute financial and intellectual support to the PPS-ERC and receive, as a benefit, sustained interaction among a community of students, scientists, technologists, and fellow industry participants.

• Cash or In-Kind Support
  • Provide facilities and expertise
  • Industry Partner membership dues
  • provide sponsored projects
• Student Recruitment
  • create employee/student fellowships
  • accept student Internships
• Education
  • Sponsor short courses
  • Deliver lectures for UCI
  • Offer specific technology expertise
  • Participate in workshops
  • Team projects
• Other
  • Systems integration oversight
  • manufacture components or systems
  • Two-way exchanges of personnel

• Information
• copies of publications
• semi-annual research review
• advancement meetings and functions
• access to researchers and systems-oriented students
• partnerships with other (university, national labs, institutes)
• Research and Intellectual Property
• influence research topics 
• right to use data for internal research
• waiver of indirect costs on research supported by fees
• early access to intellectual property
• priority access to analysis and characterization facilities
• right to participate in joint research programs
• early access to inventions developed
• opportunity to sponsor proprietary projects
• Education
• invitations and priority registration to short courses and workshops
• opportunity to create custom training sessions
• participation in a systems-oriented education