Why Should Your Company be Involved?
Building relationships with universities who produce potential employees just makes good business sense. By becoming involved in the school of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), you can impact graduate and undergraduate training while increasing your company's visibility with our students.

Relationship building also makes sense from a research perspective. Our faculty have wealth of expertise your organization can access. It is often more cost-effective for companies to fund "blue-sky" research project through a university, than to do it internally. And our faculty want to build industry relationships that better their students, educationally and professionally.

Building Strategic Relationships
Relationships with EECS tend to fall into one or more of these categories.

• Research Relationships
  --Industry Research Projects
  --Research Center Membership
  --Faculty Consulting
  These relationships offer industry access to knowledgeable EECS faculty and often, their graduate students. Industry-relevant projects are typically done through individual faculty members or an affiliated research center. These relationships involve a higher investment than other relationships, but also tend to yield more significant benefits.
  
  
• Education Relationships
  --INSPiRE Industrial Affiliate
  --Sponsor Senior Project
  --Donations
  --IEEE Seminars
  Educational relationships generally require more time, but carry a lower investment than research relationships. This allows your organization to invest in a student's educational experience and mentoring is often involved. This relationship allows you to increase visibility, improve student training and gain positive PR while evaluating potential employees.
  
  
• Personal Involvement
  --Industrial Advisory Board
  --Mentor Student Project
  --Facilitate ECE Relationships
  You or your company can always participate personally in the School of EECS. Whether you mentor a student project or participate in the Industrial Advisory Board, your time investment can make a difference.

Ready for the Next Step?
Are you interested in volunteering? Would you like to participate in industry programs like INSPiRE that can impact your on-campus visibility? Or do you want to impact education by donating needed lab equipment? If you're unsure how best to be involved, check out our programs for industry for more information on our programs.

Once you're ready, let us know how your organization would like to be involved. Email eecs.relations@oregonstate.edu or call 541.737.8613 and tell us how we can best help your organization.