External Partner Projects

External Partner Projects Partner with Us on Solutions for Your Organization

About External Partner Projects

As Wisconsin’s only Polytechnic University, UW-Stout engages with our external partners to create innovative business, industry, and community partnerships producing solutions to real-world problems. These relationships benefit our partners while engaging our students and growing the economy. Stout’s Office of Corporate Relations & Economic Engagement facilitates collaborative partnership opportunities that bring external projects into our degree programs. This fee for service model allows our students, faculty and staff to bring together the skills and knowledge they have developed in an applied manner to address challenges facing an external partner. Benefits to External Partners Solutions & Expertise: Gain fresh perspectives and impactful results from emerging professionals with access to campus resources, labs, technology, and instructor expertise. Recruitment & Talent Pipeline: Engage with Stout students to enhance recruitment efforts, assess potential hires, and provide valuable professional development experiences while developing a skilled workforce with enhanced career readiness. Build Brand Awareness on Campus: Promote your organization while benefiting from hundreds of hours of work contributed by student teams.

Attributes of External Partner Projects Flexible: Projects may be research-oriented, design focused, or centered on evaluation, testing, or analysis. They should be open-ended and amenable to multiple solutions involving an entire class or a small student team. Applicable: The expected project outcomes and deliverables align with your organizational needs as well as student education levels, experience, and knowledge. Collaborative: All projects will result in deliverables to your organization which might include virtual or physical prototypes, full development/build-out, proposed solutions, research outcomes, or reports. Timely: They reflect a real-world opportunity or challenge faced by your organization that your team does not have the time to pursue or has been on your to-do list.

The Project Process 1 Plan

Work with existing instructor contacts or reach out to sippls@uwstout.edu to begin planning your project including discussions on objectives, outcomes, timelines, and cost.

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Formalize Technical Assistance Project Agreements (TAPs) are signed for all class and standalone projects prior to the project beginning. NDA agreements are available if needed.

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Execute Once the plans, timeline, and budget are formalized through the TAP Agreement, the class or standalone project begins and is completed based on the agreed upon terms and costs.

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Office of Corporate Relations & Economic Engagement 470 Harvey Hall Menomonie, WI 54751 715-232-2397

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Corporate Relations & Economic Engagement