Numerous opportunities exist for recruitment, consulting, and research partnerships between the Clark School and collaborators in business and industry; examples are provided below. To learn more, please contact:

Leslie Borak, Assistant Dean for External Relations
Email: lborak@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-0317
or visit Featured Facilities or Collaborations

Engineering Co-op & Career Services Office

The Engineering Co-op & Career Services Office assists employers in filling co-op, internship, summer, or part-time positions with our talented engineering students. In conjunction with the university Career Center, we also assist employers in finding candidates for full-time, permanent employment. Visit the Co-op & Career Services website or contact us at (301) 405-3863.

Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute

Founded in 1983, the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech), provides direct assistance to Maryland companies through its technology consulting, joint research and business incubator programs, including:

• Technology Extension Service,
• Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program and
• Technology Advancement Program

Institute for Systems Research Industrial Affiliates Program

The Institute for Systems Research (ISR) develops, demonstrates and teaches methodologies for solving complex, heterogeneous, and dynamic problems concerning engineering technology and systems. Our Industrial Affiliates Program helps members become involved in and support our research and educational programs, and promotes members' competitiveness through direct assistance in technology transfer and preferential access to a variety of services.

The Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE)

CALCE provides information and services for organizations in different sectors of the electronics industry supply chain, and helps them share information and influence practices and policies. CALCE is sponsored by more than 50 leading corporate and government organizations from all facets of the electronics systems industry, including avionics, automotive, computer, semiconductor, and electronics manufacturers.

Electrical and Computer Engineering Corporate Affiliates Program

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering's Corporate Affiliates Program is a collaborative effort with the industrial community. The program fosters communication and mutual gain through greater knowledge and understanding of each organization's strengths and needs. The resulting relationships create a synergy that increases insight and understanding.

Center for Environmental Energy Engineering (CEEE)

The Center for Environmental Energy Engineering (CEEE) is a leader in research and education concerning environmentally responsible and economically feasible distributed energy conversion systems for buildings and transportation. CEEE provides its sponsors with the necessary background information to support strategic technology decisions. The Center's consortium structure provides solutions to industry R&D challenges through technology transfer.

Biotechnology Program and Bioprocess Scale-up Facility

The Biotechnology Program exemplifies the Clark School's commitment to support the growth of biotechnology in Maryland. The program links companies with University of Maryland researchers and provides technical assistance to Maryland companies. The program's Bioprocess Scale-up Facility (BSF) offers fermentation, separation, purification and product analysis services to companies, academic researchers, and federal laboratories.

Glenn L. Martin Wind Tunnel

The Glenn L. Martin Wind Tunnel is arguably the best facility of its kind at any university in the United States, providing extensive services to industry, government and Clark School faculty. Almost all of Ford Motor Company's model scale work, parts of the America3 America's Cup yacht, student-designed and -built solar powered cars, sculptures, antennas, bridges, aircraft carriers, submarines, conventional airplanes and helicopters and a host of other projects have been investigated here.

The Clark School's Corporate Partners program helps organizations establish the closest possible relationship with the school—a relationship in which our partners gain special access to Clark School students, faculty, and alumni and our educational and research programs, and provide direct support for those programs.

Corporate Partners foster, and share in, the school's rapid advancement, help the school contribute to engineering knowledge and the engineering workforce, and in the process advance their own organizational initiatives—from recruitment, to research, to diversity. We encourage you to consider establishing this unique relationship for your organization. For more information please contact us.

Benefits to You

Your organization can become a Corporate Partner by making an unrestricted annual contribution to the Clark School. As a Corporate Partner, your organization will be entitled to the following benefits:

Enhanced Recruitment of Clark School Students and Alumni

• A well-publicized and exclusive annual student recruitment event for your organization.
• Preferential scheduling (in terms of dates and locations) for non-exclusive on-site interviewing of, and presentations to, Clark School students
• Lists of the student members and officers of professional societies
• Sponsorship of at least one partial undergraduate scholarship
• Sponsorship of a student program or activity (e.g., the Engineering Student Council Fall Ball, Academic Achievement Banquet, Maryland Day Design Competition, or other research team competitions) and recognition in the appropriate promotional materials
• Heightened awareness of your organization among Clark School alumni, who, on visiting our Alumni web pages, will find direct links to your human resources web sites for job listings and contact information

Fast-Track Access to Clark School Research

• Invitations to annual reviews of recent research by Clark School departments, institutes and centers, bringing together our faculty and students and your engineering staff in an exclusive discussion
• Assistance, on request, in accessing the school's research programs and faculty for possible joint endeavors

Recognition for Your Organization

• Recognition in Clark School publications and on the Clark School web site, with links from the web site to your organization's site
• Invitations to conferences and other special events at the Clark School
• Listing on Corporate Partner Program signage in Clark School buildings
• Inclusion in the Corporate Partners exhibit in the Jeong. H. Kim Engineering Building, including both signage and video representing your organization

Benefits to the Clark School

When you become a Corporate Partner, you can specify that your donation apply to one or more departments and affiliated student organizations, school-wide student organizations, diversity programs, or school-wide activities.

Recent contributions from Corporate Partners have allowed the dean to:

• Bring Nobel laureate Arno Penzias to campus to speak
• Recognize faculty research achievements
• Induct a noted alumnus into the Innovation Hall of Fame
• Cultivate alumni for further involvement
• Send undergraduates to the National Society of Black Engineers national conference
• Sponsor students in national and international competitions.
• Assist faculty members in hosting international research conferences on campus
• Print recruitment materials for our specialized undergraduate programs

The Clark School establishes collaborations by partnering with industry, working on major government grants and teaming up with other schools. Here's how to start exploring ways in which you or your organization might collaborate with us:

• Learn about Clark School centers and institutes, and other organizations' programs, that have resulted from our partnerships. There may be ways for your organization to participate.
• Review the Clark School's grant-funded research across a broad spectrum of interests. This will suggest areas of possible joint activity.
• Consider the Clark School's technology alliances with industry, government and university colleagues in the following areas:
        ►  Communication and Networking
        ►  Advanced Sensors
        ►  Power and Energy
        ►  Robotics
        ►  Advanced Decision Architectures

Partnerships

Below are organizations that were created when the Clark School entered into collaborative partnerships. For more information on any of these collaborations, please contact the individual organization.

Grants

The Clark School is involved with the following grants:

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Technology Alliances

The Clark School has partnered with industry, government and university colleagues in the following areas:

Communication and Networking
BAE Systems, Information & Electronic Systems Integration, Inc., Network Associates, Inc., Motorola, Inc., IISG, BBN Technologies, Georgia Tech Research Corporation, University of Delaware, Princeton University, Johns Hopkins University, Morgan State University, The City College of New York/Research Foundation of CUNY, Clark Atlanta University

Advanced Sensors
BAE Systems, Information & Electronic Warfare Systems (Consortium Lead), Northrop Grumman Corporation, University of Michigan, University of New Mexico, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Clark Atlanta University, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Florida, Jet Propulsion Laboratories, University of Illinois, Quantum Magnetics, DRS Infrared Technologies, LP, General Dynamics Robotics Systems, University of Mississippi

Power and Energy
Honeywell Engines & Systems (Consortium Lead), Motorola Inc., SAIC, Honeywell Engines & Systems, Environmental Control Systems, United Defense, Rockwell Science Center, University of Pennsylvania, University of Texas at Austin, Tufts University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Illinois Institute of Technology, NuVant Systems, LLC, Prairie View A&M University, University of Puerto Rico, University of New Mexico, Case Western Reserve University, The Texas Engineering Experiment Station, Texas A&M University System, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University of Minnesota, Clark Atlanta University, Pennsylvania State University

Robotics
General Dynamics Robotic Systems, Inc. (Consortium Lead), Carnegie Mellon University, Florida A&M University, SRI International, Applied Systems Intelligence, Inc., Jet Propulsion Laboratory, BAE Systems, Sarnoff Corporation, Micro Analysis and Design, PercepTek, Science and Engineering Services Inc., Signal Systems Corporation, AAI Corporation

Advanced Decision Architectures
Micro Analysis and Design, Inc. (Consortium Lead), Klein Associates, Inc., SA Technologies, Inc., ArtisTech, Inc., SAIC, Ohio State University, New Mexico State University, University of West Florida, Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Central Florida.

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Through numerous innovative programs and a well-established culture of collaboration, the Clark School builds and maintains vital working relationships with colleagues in business and government— relationships of significant benefit to those partners, to students, faculty, alumni, and the school itself.

Our programs fall into five main categories:

• Student Recruitment

  Finding a great match between your organization and our students is a simple process. The Engineering Co-op & Career Services Office helps employers fill co-op, internship, summer, or part-time positions with our talented engineering students. Working with the university's Career Center, we also assist employers in finding candidates for full-time, permanent employment.

• Support Services for Maryland Companies

  The Clark School's Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech) offers proven consulting, research and business development programs for Maryland companies.

• Collaborations with Clark School Faculty

  Through our Departments, Institutes, Centers, Featured Facilities and Partnership Opportunities, Clark School faculty members collaborate extensively with colleagues in industry and government.

• Industry Events

  Through events such as sponsored lectures, industry-related conferences, and recruitment days, the Clark School forges links between business and government organizations and our students, faculty and alumni.

• The Clark School Corporate Partners Program

  For those companies that seek the closest working relationships with the Clark School, the Corporate Partners program offers exclusive opportunities for review of recent research, assisted access to research programs and faculty members, student and alumni recruitment, special events and corporate recognition.

Beyond these existing programs, we are always ready to discuss new approaches to meet a prospective partner's unique requirements. Please contact us at clark-corp-partners@umd.edu.