Industry Engagement Opportunities

How can industry engage with us? Companies can leverage university resources in many ways, from supporting education to research, with strategic investments in future talent, long-term research collaborations, and philanthropic gifts. With industry’s participation, we can assure that our students remain competitive in an ever-changing global marketplace and our faculty researchers remain at the forefront of new societal breakthroughs.

• Sponsor early research relevant to both industry and NYU Tandon — review our research interest areas and explore our centers and institutes.
• Collaborate on government proposals to leverage targeted funding.
• License technology and bring new technologies to market. 
• Use our production and research facilities: Nanofabrication Cleanroom (nanotechnology) and NYU Tandon @ The Yard (emerging media technology).
• Participate in Industry Advisory Boards.
• Join consortia and engage with other industry affiliates, such as:
  • NYC Media Lab
  • NYU Wireless Industrial Affiliates
  • Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications Associates Program

• Support experiential learning by providing projects enabling students to develop professionally valuable skills while making real-world contributions. NYU Tandon’s Vertically Integrated Projects course is a multi-disciplinary project course that emphasizes innovative and research-active education. Capstone projects in the Technology Management and Innovation department and in the Center for Urban Science and Progress enable corporations to enlist the help of students in addressing real challenges.
• Offer internships to students to help them develop business skills that are important for their careers and may make them more valuable to you.
• Mentor/support student organizations and events such as CSAW, the largest student-run cybersecurity event in the world and InnoVention, a global prototyping competition.
• Support K12 STEM initiatives organized and led by NYU Tandon.
• Participate in Industry Advisory Boards to help continuously improve the skills and education of our students.
  • Bioinformatics
  • Civil and Urban Engineering
  • Cyber Fellows
• Support students with scholarships, including those for students from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds.

• Online Degree Programs provide the same quality education as on-campus through a flexible online format.
• Tandon Bridge Program helps lead non-technical undergraduates to STEM MS programs.
• Professional Education are available to anyone looking to build or enhance technical skills and achieve career and professional goals through online learning.
• Employee scholarship programs offer affordable online education.
• Collaborative course development provides partners with the opportunity to develop their own non-credit programs.
• Leverage NYU Tandon Future Labs business incubators to support company entrepreneurs.

NYU Tandon boasts some of the world’s top engineering students and alumni, who have developed the knowledge and skills necessary for careers in advanced research and engineering. We’ve been connecting our graduates with companies that seek to develop a strong, diverse workforce of expert engineers, computer scientists, biochemists, digital media artists, and more. Find top talent at one of our career fairs, participate in an industry panel discussion or attend our annual Research Expo, an interactive showcase of Tandon's most promising and exciting research projects! 

Visit Tandon Career Hub or explore becoming an Industry Partner for exclusive recruiting.

If your organization has interest in the above opportunities or has additional questions, please contact Dr. Frank Vallese, Director Strategic Partnerships, frank.vallese@nyu.edu.