Supporting Industry, Government, and Community Innovation
Multidisciplinary Project Details:
- Length: ~6-8 Weeks
- Team Size: 3-5 Student Fellows with Program Leadership Oversight
- Platform: UGA provides a Platform to facilitate project management & communication between Project Teams & Partners
- Engagement: Students will ideally visit the Partner’s facility at least once during the Project and present their final work product to the applicable leadership team in person either at UGA or at the Partner’s facility.
- Workflow: Agreed in consultation between Project Team and Partner inclusive of all KPIs and desired end-product.
- Sponsorship: $4,000 per project
SIFP Partner Benefits
- Gain access to University of Georgia talent and expertise.
- Construct a pipeline to interdisciplinary student talent with developed competencies that have been applied to integrated projects.
- Source simple and/or complex solutions for real-world, industry specific challenges.
- Create intellectual capital that can drive long-term economic and social value.
- Synthesize and apply identified solutions at the industry, community, state, and national levels.
SIFP in the News
- Schréder USA Partners with UGA
- Student Industry Fellows Research Improving Campus Safety
- UGA SIFP in “The University-Industry Engagement Book of Best Practices” Tech Transfer Central
- Read EL Blog Post: Can Tradition Spark Innovation?
Project Sponsors
SIFP Project Sponsors play a critical role in the development of the Fellows. Recent Project Sponsors include:
