Whether you're a member of our alumni, a member of the business community or just interested in giving back, there are many ways to partner with the CU Boulder's Paul M. Rady听Department of Mechanical Engineering.听

Connect with Industry & Foundations Relations

Industry & Foundation Relations听at CU Boulder connects local, national and international companies to the people, services, projects and resources they need to support business growth and development.

Collaborate with Faculty for Sponsored Research

Faculty members at CU Boulder are eager to collaborate and have varying capabilities and areas of expertise听in the following research areas.听Be sure to check out our听Research Overview Slides听for a quick look at faculty members and their unique capabilities and areas of expertise.听

Research Overview Slides

You may also be interested in learning more about research by focus area as follows:

Join ME Partners

ME Partners support the education of students and the mission of the department by bringing industry connections and enabling project-based learning.听

ME Partners collaborate by:

  • Sponsoring听senior design and graduate design course projects
  • Providing听resources to maintain and enhance project-based courses
  • Delivering听seminars to graduate and undergraduate students
  • Serving听as guest lecturers for academic courses
  • Supporting听plant/lab site visits for students
  • Connecting听students with internship opportunities
  • Serving听as adjunct faculty members, as needed

Benefits of becoming an ME Partner include:

  • Networking with colleagues
  • Student recruitment opportunities for jobs/internships
  • Opportunities听to shape education for up-and-coming engineers
  • Solutions to engineering problems through senior design projects
  • New ideas and approaches to company problems
  • Functioning hardware with documentation
  • Outreach and promotion of your involvement

Learn more about ME Partners

Sponsor a Senior Design Project

Design Center听Colorado (DCC) fosters innovative, technical collaborations with business, industry, and government agencies. One DCC initiative involves bringing projects to undergraduate and graduate students in mechanical engineering听where integrated teams of 4 to 6 undergraduate students (3 to 4 graduate students), a faculty advisor, and an industry mentor develop workable solutions.听Student teams work on assigned projects for two consecutive semesters and deliver tested, functional hardware and documentation to the industry sponsor at the completion of the project.

Benefits of sponsoring a project:

  • Sponsors obtain functional hardware with documentation at the end of the project.
  • Sponsors benefit from new ideas and approaches undertaken by student teams of either graduate or undergraduate students.
  • Close interaction with student teams provides sponsors with a unique opportunity for recruiting new graduates.
  • Integrated teams comprised of faculty members, industry sponsors听and students focus on the successful completion of the project.
  • Sponsored projects are showcased to the local community as well as other companies at a public design exposition each spring.听

How Senior Design Sponsorship Works

Collaborate with Faculty for Independent Study Opportunities

More information to come soon.听

To learn more about partnering with the department, please email External Relations Committee Chair Greg Rieker.