How it works
- Center Funding: (1) industry membership fees, (2) NSF I/UCRC grants to each university site, (3) university contributions (indirect cost waivers)
- Industry Leadership: governed by Industry Advisory Board (IAB) with center members
- Structure: IAB participates in establishing the center’s research agenda, bylaws, research portfolio, technology roadmap, project selection and monitoring
- Shared IP model: all members share resulting intellectual property
The process
- Funding from NSF academia, industry ->
- Industry advisory board selects projects for funding ->
- Faculty and students conduct research with industry participation ->
- Value produced: experienced and employable student engineers, knowledge methodologies, algorithms, software and hardware designs, process improvements and more.