Industry Engagement
Penn State frequently collaborates with companies large and small that are interested in supporting industrial and manufacturing engineering education and research efforts.
Our partnerships are beneficial to companies, our department, and our students. We assist with engineering projects, processes, and problems, while our engagement partners provide students with the real-world experience they need to be successful, industrial engineering professionals with a global view of business and manufacturing.
Engagement opportunities within the department include:
- Engineering Career Fair
Fall Career Days
Spring Career Week - Industrial Engineering Career Fair (Fall semester)
Contact Srini Tamvada, faculty adviser of Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Student Chapter - Engineering Career Resources & Employer Relations Office
Engineering internships & Co-ops - Information sessions/panel discussions
Held via IISE
Contacts: Srini Tamvada IISE faculty adviser - Senior-level Capstone Design Projects
Contact: Brian Zajac - Distributing internship and/or Co-op opportunities to industrial engineering students
Contact: Reese Harlow, academic support assistant - Identifying industrial engineering courses
Give a presentation/lecture related to the course content, which could also provide insight into companies.
Contact: Reese Harlow, academic support assistant, or Kelly Schiffer, education program specialist - Student Scholarship Support
Provide scholarship funding
Contact: Kelly Schiffer - Partnering to provide applied research projects
All levels: undergraduate, masters, and doctoral
Contact: TBD - Organizing factory tours for students
Run via either a student organization or IE-specific course
Contact: TBD - Collaborating through research centers and/or labs
Contact: TBD - Sponsoring departmental events:
Such as the Annual Awards Banquet and Family Day held every spring, among others
Contact: Reese Harlow or Kelly Schiffer
Our corporate partners include:
- Case New Holland, Inc.
- Dresser-Rand
- First Wave Technologies, Inc.
- Fed-Ex Services
- Ford Motor Company
- Geisinger Health System
- General Electric
- General Motors
- Haas Automation, Inc.
- Honeywell, Inc.
- Ingersoll-Rand
- Ingram Micro
- Intel
- IQS, Inc.
- Kennametal
- Kimberly-Clark
- Lee Industries
- Lincoln Electric
- Lockheed Martin
- Muncy Valley Hospital - Susquehanna Health
- PepsiCo-Frito-Lay
- Philips Ultrasound
- Quaker Chemical Corporation
- Schlumberger Doll
- SEKISUI-SPI
- Steel Founders Society of America
- TMP Manufacturing
- Third Wave Systems
- Victaulic
- Volvo Group
- Whirlpool Corporation
Get involved
If your company has a project for our students, a research question for faculty, or would like to help take advantage of a funding opportunity, please contact the department at 814-865-7601.
