ECE Corporate Partners Program

Persistent Innovation. Together.

The Corporate Partners Program (CPP) in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering is a relationship-building opportunity that offers participating companies exclusive access to new talent within our School. It has been established to connect companies directly with Purdue ECE students and student organizations in several different ways to provide exclusive recruiting opportunities. It is also designed to provide participating companies with the outlets they need to raise awareness for their brand at Purdue University.

Our corporate affiliates are given the support and flexibility to develop a company-specific strategy for student engagement:

Gold Tier members are interested in engaging closely and often for customized recruiting, classroom engagement, and research consulting or projects.
Black Tier members are interested in engaging with our School at several different levels, and special events are an important part of their involvement.
Engagement at the Bronze Tier is designed to maximize recruiting and awareness of your brand’s message, vision, and company culture.
On-campus visits are centered around raising brand-awareness, networking, and scheduling large number of interviews with candidates. They may also involve visits to our classrooms and speaking at our Stories of Success events.
Attendance at twice annual ECE’s annual career fair held in both Indianapolis and West Lafayette, Boilermaker Circuit, and energizing student competition, The Spark Challenge, is something that our corporate affiliates will not want to miss!
Company visits, internship openings, and job opportunities are promoted internally through flyers, social media, and directed communication targeting specific academic demographics.

A message from our Director

Purdue’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering leads the world in innovative thinking and field-defining inventions that improve our lives.

Welcome to our many current Corporate Partners and to the many more potential Partners. Purdue ECE has a long history of working with industry to solve large real‐world problems, going almost all the way back to its days of founding in 1888. This program lets you join our top-notch ECE program comprising more than 1,700 undergraduate students, 1,000 graduate students, and 115 faculty members. Our Corporate Partnership Program provides you with a unique way to engage with us.

We have two large recruiting events each semester, Boilermaker Circuit and The Spark Challenge. In addition, we set up customized programs for each of our Partners for recruiting, research, and training.

You are creative, as are we. Let us work together.

Cheers,
Saurabh Bagchi

Membership Levels

Gold Tier

($25,000/year)

Full access to ECE Boilermaker Circuit career fairs in both Indianapolis and West Lafayette, and virtual recruiting online platform
6 recruiting events
6 classroom visits
Unlimited Ideas to Innovation project proposals
2 presentations at ECE Stories of Success
Promotion of jobs and campus events via flyers, emails, social media, database, and class announcements

Black Tier

($15,000/year)

Full access to ECE Boilermaker Circuit career fairs in both Indianapolis and West Lafayette, and Spark Design Challenge
4 recruiting events
4 classroom visits
1 Ideas to Innovation project proposal
1 presentation at ECE Stories of Success
Consulting options
Promotion of jobs and campus events via flyers, emails, social media, and database

Bronze Tier

($5,000/year)

Full access to ECE Boilermaker Circuit career fairs in both Indianapolis and West Lafayette
2 recruiting events per academic year
2 classroom visits per academic year
Promotion of jobs and campus events via flyers and targeted student emails

Upcoming Events

Dec 9: Fall 2026 SPARK Challenge: Indianapolis

The SPARK Challenge is a campus-wide, corporate-sponsored design competition, hosted by Purdue ECE in partnership with the ECE Student Society (ECESS) and Purdue ECE Corporate Partners.

Dec 10: Fall 2026 SPARK Challenge: West Lafayette

The SPARK Challenge is a campus-wide, corporate-sponsored design competition, hosted by Purdue ECE in partnership with the ECE Student Society (ECESS) and Purdue ECE Corporate Partners. The SPARK Challenge will be held on December 10 & 11 in West Lafayette.