Partner with Western and the Kimmel School
The Kimmel School works closely with industry through a broad array of mutually beneficial partnerships that offer companies and organizations opportunities to invest in innovation, cutting-edge technology education, and the next generation of leaders.
Companies partner with the Kimmel School to achieve multiple outcomes, including:
- Identifying and recruiting outstanding graduates and interns,
- Working closely with faculty and students on critical engineering problems of interest to the organization, and
- Leveraging the University to solve problems cost effectively drawing on our expert faculty.
Tangible Benefits of working with the Kimmel School include:
- Access to world-class engineering facilities, faculty, students, and their expertise,
- Access to lab and demonstration space for experiments, product development, engineering design, reverse engineering, and recruitment,
- Directly preparing a workforce ready to address your specific business challenges,
- Faculty and students creating novel approaches to your business issues and technical challenges.
Corporate Partners
We have designed several programs to make your interaction with the Kimmel School as productive as possible. Depending on your resources and schedule, we have a program that will help your company achieve its goals while enhancing educational programs in the School.
The Kimmel School seeks to maximize opportunities for collaborative, mutually-rewarding associations with corporate partners in order to meet the engineering and construction management workforce needs of the state and nation, promote student learning, and facilitate research and technology transfer. In developing such partnerships, the Kimmel School strives to address the unique interests of each individual company with which it works, whether those interests are to expand corporate name recognition; provide access to world-class faculty, student and graduates; or develop targeted applied research programs in the School.
Partnership programs in the Kimmel School include the following:
- Industrial Advisory Boards
- Named Facilities / Laboratories
- Applied Research Programs
- Sponsorship Programs
To learn more or to discuss a customized approach to your needs, please contact:
Dr. Phillip A. Sanger
220 Belk Building
Western Carolina University
Cullowhee, NC 28723
voice: 828-227-2435
fax: 828-227-3805
E-mail: sanger@wcu.edu