FACULTY-TO-INDUSTRY
SUMMER FELLOW PROGRAM
For Industry
For INDUSTRY to leverage leading-edge expertise, emerging technologies, and state-of-the-art research capabilities at UConn to address technical challenges, enhance productivity, and accelerate innovation.
For Faculty
For UCONN FACULTY to apply academic expertise within real-world environments to pilot new ideas and approaches, generate societal impact, establish enduring partnerships, and bring industry-informed insights back to research programs and the classroom.
Benefits to Industry
- Bring cutting-edge/new technologies to enhance productivity & competitiveness
- Accelerate R&D & address challenges by trying out novel approaches/methods not available in house
- Explore emerging technologies while maintaining control of proprietary information, data, and generated knowledge
- Build partnerships with UConn faculty for future sustained collaborations
- Gain access to UConn’s research infrastructure and facilities through faculty research
- Build pipelines for student internships, hiring, and workforce development
Benefits to Faculty
- Apply expertise/knowledge to make real-world impact
- Expand to new research areas or directions by applying expertise in industry
- Gain firsthand insight into industrial or government R&D and innovation environments
- Build corporate partnerships for sustained collaborative research & joint proposals in the future
- Leverage the industrial experience to inspire new curriculum & case studies
- Gain summer salary and/or research support
Program Logistics
- Streamlined protocols developed for both industry and UConn faculty
- Industry to pay UConn directly through the UConn Office for the Vice-President for Research
- Streamlined non-disclosure agreements
- Industry to share project/expertise needs
- Faculty to provide CVs and interest/expertise statements
- Engineering Dean’s Office to do the matchmaking
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
OFFICE OF THE VP FOR RESEARCH
Contact UConn Engineering Dean’s Office engr-dean@uconn.edu