Andrews Engineering Enhances Industry Partnerships

The University of St. Thomas School of Engineering is one of five universities in a consortium that was awarded $2 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to bolster industry-academic partnerships. The award comes from NSF’s Enabling Partnerships to Increase Innovation Capacity (EPIIC) program.  

Led by the University of St. Thomas, the consortium has members from four other engineering programs spread across the industrialized north of the U.S., from Minnesota to Massachusetts. They are Andrews University (Michigan), Milwaukee School of Engineering (Wisconsin), University of Detroit Mercy (Michigan), and Western New England University (Massachusetts). 

The consortium members will each receive $400,000 over three years to enhance faculty capacity for sustained strategic industry collaborations and partnerships in their regions.  The work will support innovation in emerging technologies such as microelectronics, advanced manufacturing, clean energy, and artificial intelligence. The consortium members will share ideas, expertise and resources to improve processes for both internal and external stakeholders to seamlessly establish and maintain partnerships; and seed new collaborations that become self-sustaining while demonstrating a model of success for future potential partners.

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