Corporate Sponsored Senior Projects Program

The Baskin Engineering Corporate Sponsored Senior Projects Program (CSSPP) at UC Santa Cruz provides corporate sponsors with high-value projects with practical applications, and equips graduating seniors with real-world engineering experience. The purpose and outcome fosters deep and valuable relationships with the Silicon Valley business community through student, faculty and corporate engagement.

How it Works

• Corporate Sponsors collaborate with faculty to define high-value senior design projects

• Students are engaged in meaningful interdisciplinary team-based learning

• Teams of 3-5 students work on the project for two quarters to fulfill their graduation requirements

• The corporate sponsor provides a designated liaison as the team’s customer

• Sponsor and faculty together plan projects to ensure that schedules and milestones are realistic and that the deliverables are useful

• Teams interact with sponsor to review project status and progress

• Corporate sponsors can receive intellectual property rights to results developed by undergraduate students

“The students have been wonderful to work with. They were not afraid to take on what is a very complex problem. They’ve been enthusiastic, professional and well-organized throughout the project.” –Anthony Tarantino, Founding Member & Senior Advisor to Atollogy

Get Involved

To learn more about how to bring talented engineers into your company, contact: bsoedev@ucsc.edu

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