Building industrial-education partnerships in acoustics

Strong industry relations can provide many positive impacts for an educational program. The rewards of such an educational-industrial partnership only occur after the hard work of trust-building between the educational provider and the industry partners. A strong partnership requires value generated for both the industrial partner and the educational institution. In this talk, examples will be given of successful and unsuccessful industrial partnerships with academia. The focus will be on educational partnerships, as opposed to industrial research funding. Examples of undergraduate class projects, guest lecturing, professional seminars and webinars, and others will be discussed, in addition to the value streams realized by long time industrial partners.