Corporate Development
Our department facilitates relationships with companies; specifically encouraging activities in recruitment and student support, and building upon such efforts under a corporate partnership with Michigan Tech University in support of scholarships, diversity, academic programs, instructional facilities enhancement, and Michigan Tech’s Career Center.
This approach aims to achieve multiple, long-term goals including: training undergraduates for future careers, increasing visibility of company names and diversity on campus, supporting industry focused academic programs, and increasing participation in MTU sponsored special programs.
We would love to talk with you about the ways we can enhance each other's work. We travel across the country to visit corporations and talk with you and we can set up a custom tour of Michigan Tech for you if you are in town. Please review the opportunities to get involved and contact us for more information:
Corporate Opportunities
There are many opportunities for corporate involvement at Michigan Tech. An overview of corporate involvement reveals some of these:
Recruitment
Student support is offered through the University's Career Center in a variety of ways. Corporate funding makes it possible for students to interact with employers through the recruitment process using a web-based system managed by Michigan Tech's Career Center. The Career Center partnership further strengthens a growing, mutually-beneficial relationship between corporations and Michigan Tech. This program generates campus wide visibility for participating companies.
Scholarships and Fellowships
Companies benefit by generating good will to selected students through substantive awards. Scholarships are positive recruiting tools and connect employers early on with potential future high performing employees early on in their studies. Moreover, scholarship and fellowship donors have a direct impact on achieving diversity goals for future workforce settings.
Student Development
Student organizations at Michigan Tech enhance the experiences of affiliated students and campus life by providing early support to the engineering professions and with academic life. They also support campus-wide projects. Employers benefit through their visible support of such groups and their mission to promote the presence and impact of historically underrepresented groups in the engineering professions and increase the public's awareness of such contributions.
Curriculum Development
Michigan Tech's Senior Design Program within the College of Engineering allows teams of approximately five engineering seniors, often from multiple disciplines, to work on an industry-sponsored problem requiring a design solution. Michigan Tech's Enterprise Program represents a unique and innovative approach to education, whereby teams of students work together in a multi-disciplinary environment to effectively run their own business.
Special Programs
Special programs and student teams such as the SAE Clean Snowmobile Competition and the Youth Engineering & Science Expo (YES! Expo) provide for a unique collaboration among state agencies, corporations, universities, youth organizations, professional societies, and business development organizations. Through hands-on projects, exhibits, and competitions students are able to put their skills and education on display.
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Thousands of corporations give to Michigan Tech each year. Here are a few who have made recent gifts: