Industry and Community Partners
Partnering to Prepare the Next Generation of Computing Professionals.
Real Problems, Real Impact
Meaningful partnerships are at the core of The Shipyard. Industry and community organizations help students apply classroom learning to real-world challenges through mentorship, collaborative projects, and shared expertise. In return, partners gain access to fresh ideas, emerging talent, and innovative approaches to solving complex problems.
Partner With Shipyard
Provide authentic business or community challenges for student teams to solve.
Guide students throughout their projects while sharing professional insight and industry best practices.
Help ensure project experiences remain aligned with evolving workforce needs.
Work alongside students before hiring, reducing onboarding time and identifying future talent earlier.
Partner with faculty and student researchers to explore innovative solutions to emerging challenges.
Sponsor senior capstone projects that deliver practical solutions with lasting value.
The Value of Partnership
Partnering with The Shipyard creates value for both students and organizations. Students gain hands-on experience by applying their classroom learning to real-world challenges, while partners gain fresh perspectives, innovative ideas, and opportunities to connect with emerging computing talent.
Through The Shipyard, partners can:
- Collaborate with students on meaningful, real-world projects.
- Connect with emerging talent and build relationships with future employees.
- Help shape student learning by providing mentorship, feedback, and industry expertise.
- Support projects that align with students' coursework and academic goals.
- Engage with students over time as projects continue and evolve.
- Increase their organization's visibility through student presentations, portfolios, and project showcases.
Explore Shipyard
Discover how Shipyard supports your journey through every stage of your computing degree.
Frequently Asked Questions
There are many ways to get involved such as providing mentorship, sponsoring projects, providing financial support. To get involved, please fill out the partner interest form.
Traditional courses teach students content, fundamentals, and critical reasoning skills. While crucial, they are only part of the story. Regardless of your interests, an important key to success post-graduation is getting practical, hands-on experience. The Shipyard initiative gives you the chance to develop this experience throughout your degree, allowing you the opportunity to work on real-world, applied projects from your first semester to your last.
Students can get involved by taking studio courses, computing the Applied Computing Practitioner Certificate, carrying out research, partnering with companies, or pursuing start-up ideas! To get involved, please fill out the student interest form.