Corporate Applied Research

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	Corporate Applied Research As the nation's leader in hands-on engineering and computer science education, Cal Poly provides a project- and design-centered environment that supports applied research in a wide range of multidisciplinary or discipline-focused areas. Corporate sponsorship of faculty and student applied research projects offers unique opportunities for industry/university collaboration and problem solving. Applied research projects generally fall into one of four general types: Project-Based Learning Institute Sponsored Projects - Sponsored projects can take advantage of individual faculty expertise and research interests or they may involve multidisciplinary groups of students and faculty working on well defined project objectives with very specific milestones and deliverables. Graduate Student Projects - Graduate Student Projects tend to be individual and technically oriented. Capstone Projects - Faculty-advised student groups and teams undertake Capstone Projects in the context of a senior series course or a club project. Examples include the annual Design/Build/Fly teams or the Ford-sponsored FutureTruck project. Senior Projects - All Cal Poly undergraduate students are required to complete a Senior Project, which includes design, analysis, fabrication, testing, and completion of a final report. The Senior Project can be done on an individual basis, or it can be an integrated effort resulting in several projects completed in a cooperative effort by students of varied disciplines. This "team" approach is often well suited to broader problems confronting an industrial sponsor. To participate in sponsored research at the College of Engineering contact: Dr Zahed Sheikh Director, Corporate Relations & Project Based Learning Institute 805-756-6225 zsheikho@calpoly.edu	Aniefon Ekanem Electrical Engineering 2007 “My path to Cal Poly is a little longer than most.” I was born in Nigeria and went to high school in Bakersfield. I've always been interested in solid state and polymer electronics, so when my engineering club at Bakersfield College announced a field trip to Cal Poly, I was definitely excited. Like a lot of people, I immediately fell in love with it here.