Partners - Vertically Integrated Projects - Purdue University

Accelerating industry-student engagement via projects during the school year.

AI Engine is a unique opportunity for industry partners to sponsor projects and engage in ambitious portfolio projects over the academic year (August-May). Sponsor-driven experiential learning project allows students to more fully know and understand industry projects and expound upon their work through a traditional internship (10-12 weeks over the summer).

Bridging academia, industry and government, AI Engine projects are credit-bearing and support economic development, innovation and national security. Projects launch in conjunction with the semester — August and January — and industry partners meet weekly with students to provide guidance.

Partners specializing in defense, aerospace, technology and other industries are welcome. A $30,000 investment per project per academic year is required.

Ready to learn more? Contact Maggie Betz, associate director of AI Engine, at aiengine@purdue.edu.

Talent Access

Engage highly motivated students from engineering and other disciplines, creating a large-scale workforce development and recruiting pipeline for internships, fellowships and full-time employment opportunities.

Build Company Recognition

Set yourself apart from the big tech companies and build positive working relationships with students outside of the typical recruitment strategies.

Test Proof-of-Concept Projects

Explore AI ideas with innovative students and evaluate what 2,500+ hours of additive student effort can create before putting internal company resources toward a full-scale project.

Complete Value-Add Projects

Tackle back-burner engineering and AI projects that are known to add value and could benefit from more resources like time and talent.

Get involved- schedule a discovery call

Expand upon summer internship projects and launch a project with high-achieving students during the academic year.

Email aiengine@purdue.edu to find a time or book directly here.

Project description

Review current project descriptions.

Legal details

• Sponsor Acknowledgement 
• NDA
• NDA and IP assignment

Project charter

More details to be available at a later date.

Title IX training

Complete the Title IX training. You will receive a confirmation email after completing the training. Please forward your confirmation to aiengine@purdue.edu.