The EECS Research Partner Program

The Industrial Relations Office (IRO) of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department fosters close cooperation between industry and the Department through the Research Partner program.
This program:

• enables quick transfer of research results to industry
• facilitates interactions that help to focus research on problems of current interest to industry
• enhances industry’s access to departmental publications, faculty, and students

Your company can gain EECS Research Partner status with a minimum annual grant to the Department of $50,000, which is devoted to support of faculty research.  Research Partners are full members of the EECS Industrial Liaison Program (ILP).

Current Research Partners

Research Partner status confers the following privileges:

• Visiting Industrial Fellow (VIF) opportunities
  Research Partners may arrange, on a one-time basis, to send a visitor to work and study with a departmental professor and her/his research group for up to one year.  The Research Partner provides funds to cover the visiting researcher’s salary, as well as $75,000 in support of research-related and administrative costs connected with the visitor’s stay in EECS. Among other privileges, VIFs participate on a Department research team, may attend EECS Department seminars and colloquia, may audit EECS courses with instructor’s permission, receive office space at or above the level afforded to a senior graduate student in a research group.  Intellectual property rights are handled subject to “UC Patent Policy”.
  
  The Department accepts VIF nominees in a way that insures balance across research areas and equitable visitation opportunities for all Fellows.  For more information, please visit our EECS Visiting Industrial Fellow Program website.
  
  (Note: If a Research Partner company wishes to send such visiting fellows in subsequent years, a change of membership to the Berkeley EECS Affiliate [BEECSA] level is necessary.)
  
  
• BEARS (Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium)
  Each year in February IRO produces a day-long research conference—BEARS—featuring a variety of informative talks and laboratory open houses offered by distinguished faculty members and advanced graduate students.   By giving industry members a look at the very latest exciting work being carried out in electrical engineering and in computer sciences, BEARS promotes strong bonds between industry and the department.
  
  
• Infosessions
  ILP members have the exclusive privilege of hosting free information sessions (Infosessions) in the department with support from IRO.  IRO staff handle room arrangements, advertise via email and flyers posted in Cory and Soda Halls, arrange parking for recruiters, place catering orders (which are billed separately to the Research Partner), arrange audio-visual coverage for the Infosession, collect student résumés, and set up on-site interviews with candidates in Cory or Soda Hall.
  
  
• Participation in the annual Internship Open House (registration fee is included)
  
  
  
• Priority invitation to the EECS Career Fair (does not include registration fee)
  
  
  
• Graduate Student Résumé Directory
  IRO produces an annual directory of graduate student résumés to aid recruitment efforts of member companies.
  
  
• Invitation to attend EECS seminars Employees of Research Partner companies may attend EECS seminars, which are listed on our web page at http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/.

For more information please contact: