赞助信息
Industrial sponsors and partners are critical to our programs. 的re are several ways to support the 博克学习工厂:
- Sponsor a freshman client-driven project ($1500)
- Sponsor a Sophomore manufacturing project ($1500)
- 赞助一个高级顶点项目(3000美元)
- Sponsor an Independent Study project (Negotiable)
- 给 materials, equipment, and/or supplies for unrestricted use 在任何部门的设施.
- Donate your time and energy by becoming part of our Industrial Advisory Council.
Companies are encouraged to provide logos (for our website, 通讯, and brochures) and/or corporate banners (to display in our facilities and at events) to help us acknowledge their support and contributions.
赞助商的好处:
- 与学生建立关系
- Gaining new ideas for real-world design challenges
- Helping to educate students about real-world engineering challenges
- Low-risk, low-cost investment with high potential ROI (return on investment)
- Work on "back burner" projects and help refine ideas
- Help start-up and small companies with prototyping and development work (while developing a business plan through collaboration with a team of business students)
- Direct access to some of the best 宾州州立银行 students (extended interview)
- 新聘员工(一.e., Penn State students) are better trained as a result
- Company liaison overseeing the project gains invaluable project management experience
- Increase brand awareness among Penn State students and faculty
- Entry point (and guide) into the Penn State network
- Network with other companies through Learning Factory events and cross-promotions
对学生的好处:
- Gaining real-world experience in problem solving
- 和未来可能的雇主一起工作
- Working on teams to gain a better understanding of engineering roles
- Networking opportunities with industry and faculty
- Experimenting, modeling, and/or prototyping designs
- Gaining realistic expectations of what it is like to work in industry
以前的赞助商
Previous projects have been sponsored by large multi-national companies as well as small local companies.
空气化工产品公司 | 离网技术 |
美国起重机 | Onexia |
美国机械工程师学会 | Onuku行业 |
Ammeraal Beltech - Unichains | 帕克 |
阿姆斯特朗世界工业公司 | Polychem |
ASME | 精密医疗产品 |
BIGArchery有限责任公司 | 象限EPP |
布伦特伍德的行业 | 阅读合金 |
加拿大太阳能公司 | 阅读烘焙系统 |
木匠的技术 | 阅读电 |
Celentano能源服务公司 | 阅读健康 |
中地定居下来 | 雷丁公共博物馆 |
定制处理服务 | 阅读卡车和车身 |
东宾州制造业 | RER能源集团 |
Ecoult | 施万 |
出现联盟 | 海的盒子 |
KCF技术 | SFS英特 |
Lutron电子 | Sunbloc系统 |
医生国际 | TE的连接 |
新泰克电力系统 | 泰利福 |
知识产权
根据宾州州立大学的rag13政策, undergraduate students own any intellectual property that they may develop as part of a course project; however, they can sign over their intellectual property rights to a sponsor if requested. Sponsors may request ownership rights of all intellectual property that is developed by the students during the course of the project for an additional donation of $500 to help support our administration expenses. Projects in this category require students to assign their intellectual property rights to the sponsor (click here for 知识产权转让表). 除了, 尚未申请专利的赞助商, and wish to avoid public disclosure of their invention, are highly advised to also request the confidentiality agreement for their project. Sponsors should also be aware that project presentations are open to other sponsors.
保密
In order to protect their competitive positions, sponsors may require each team member to sign a confidentiality agreement as a condition for working on their project, for an additional donation of $500 to help support our administration expenses. 的 Confidential Information Disclosure Agreement obliges the students to observe due diligence in protecting the confidentiality of company-provided information (data, 图纸, 设计意图, 等). 尚未申请专利的赞助商, and wish to avoid public disclosure of an invention, 是否建议选择此条款. 由于项目数量增加, the terms in this agreement are no longer negotiable, and companies should consider whether this agreement is really needed in order to do a senior design project. Companies should bear in mind that students working on their projects are seniors, the majority of which will graduate after the semester is over. It is not feasible for Penn State to track all of these students for five years after graduation; hence, 表格的有效期为两年, 这也是不容商量的. Please convey this to your legal department if questions arise.