Conference Session

INDUSTRY DAY: Industry-Focused Collaboration Techniques

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel LeBlanc, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Topics

Corporate Member Council, Diversity

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

three offices in 5Academic and Corporate Engagement. By 2015, there are 19 companies engaged with all threeoffices. Cooperation among the division with at least 14 of the 19 companies can be directlylinked to the increase in overall engagement with the university. In 2010, only 7 of the 19companies were involved with two of the three ACE departments.Our customers now have a primary point of contact that is involved in the relationship regardlessof the need. This primary relationship manager works with the customer to understand the needand brings in the right internal entities to discuss the need. We also utilize better communicationsystems and