Strategic Corporate Partners (SCPs) are asked to make an initial minimum investment of $60,000 for the upcoming 2024-25 academic year to support the development phase of the proposed TUEE Collaboratory model. During the development phase it is essential to establish all elements necessary for fully implementing the comprehensive pilot in AY 2025-26.
The University is considering an invitation to be the lead university for the TUEE Collaboratory model nationally and the proposed Gulf Southwest, Rocky Mountain or Pacific Southwest regional TUEE Collaboratory. The TUEE Collaboratory model fosters a student-centered, professional practicelearning environment throughout the undergraduate experience, essential for transforming undergraduate engineering education. It seems to be the only transformation model to be forthcoming in the foreseeable future and since the challenge announced in phase 1 (industry input) of the ASEE TUEE five-year multi-phase NSF funded study was released in 2013.
Strategic Corporate Partners (SCPs) are encouraged to invest $100,000 or more. The required initial $60,000 minimum investment includes:
- Third year sponsored design projects program– $7,000 per project – this program would be introduced and conducted throughout the spring semester 2025. The deadlines for committing to sponsor a project(s) and the deadline for submitting a description of problems that student teams would be asked to solve would be posted in an upcoming monthly update of SCP Investment Guidelines. Additional projects may be sponsored at $7,000 each.
- Transfer Scholars Program (TSP) – $8,000 would be allocated for the first year of a scholarship to cover the tuition and fees. The scholarship would be for two years for each enrolled transfer scholar. Additional first year scholarships would be $8,000 each. Also, the SCP would provide a paid summer internship for the summer immediately prior to enrollment in the fall semester. All Transfer Scholars Finalists would be eligible to request an interview with their chosen SCPs for a summer internship, in addition to the announced Transfer Scholars. Also, The University would assign a SPPS student peer mentor and a SCP alum practicing professional mentor to the new TSP member (the Scholar) throughout the fall semester 2025.
- Intrapreneurship Program (IP) – $7,000 would be allocated as a co-founder of this new breakthrough program. Additional funding would be at the discretion of the sponsor.
- Day on Campus with Strategic Corporate Partners (DCSCP) – $7,000 would be allocated as a co-sponsor of the celebratory event. Additional levels of sponsorship would be determined by the PPEC prior to the November 2024 event.
- SCPPL Action Councils – (FPPC, SPPC, SDSC, PPEC)– $12,000 with $3,000 being allocated to each action council. At the discretion of each SCP, additional funding may be designated to specific action councils and specific student chapters of national professional societies and diversity organizations. Initial student professional organizations are expected to be ACM, ASME and IEEE, and the national diversity organizations MAES, NSBE, SACNAS, SHPE and SWE with additions noted in the monthly updated SCP Investment Guidelines.
- Student-Centered Professional Practice Learning Initiative (SCPPL) – $12,000 would be allocated for general support of the new initiative as a recognized founding Strategic Corporate Partner (SCP). Additional funding would be at the discretion of each SCP at any time throughout the Development Phase through June 2025.
- Innovations in career development and employment in collaboration with the The University Career Center – $4,000 with additional funding at the discretion of the sponsor.
- Alumni Chapters – The University would establish an alumni chapter with each SCP during AY 2024-25.
- Student Organizations – Virtually all SPPS students are members of one or more of the eight national professional or diversity organizations – ACM, ASME, IEEE, MAES, NSBE, SACNAS, SHPE and SWE. Therefore, any or all the organizations could be supported at the discretion of each SCP.
- Strategic Corporate Partner (SCP) available balance – $5,000. Each founding SCP’s available balance could be used to prioritize and increase support of the initiative and any chosen programs above.
Additional innovative programs and events are likely to be added during the AY 2024-2025 Development Phase of the two-year project that would require development seed funding.