Industry Partners
CSULB is looking for industry partners to participate in LEAP, a $2.1 million National Science Foundation program to train a new generation of highly skilled Hispanic scientists and engineers.
LEAP will carry out 30 year-long projects over the next five years in close coordination with industry partners. For each project, a team of four undergraduate CSULB underrepresented minority students in STEM fields will work under the supervision of a CSULB faculty mentor from the College of Engineering or College of Natural Science and Mathematics, depending on the nature of the project.
Each team will be supported by a business advisor from the College of Business faculty and a compliance advisor from the College of Engineering faculty, in close coordination with industry partners.
Industry partners will:
- Have access to a well-trained workforce with expertise in solving real-world problems
- Define the project topic
- Identify a mentor to monitor project progress and guide the team with a two-hour average weekly time commitment They will also periodically evaluate project milestones based on realistic and well-defined timelines.
- Not bear any financially committment, as the NSF provides $70,000 funding for each team
- Have access to low-cost, state-of-the-art equipment in faculty mentor labs and shared CSULB facilities.
Industry Partners collaborated with LEAP:
1. Boeing
2. Northrop Grumman
3. AlphaSTAR Corp.
4. NextGen Aeronautics
5. Applied Medical
6. The Mod Institute
7. Denso
8. SoCal Gas
9. Saratech
10. JPL
11. SprintRay
12. FlightWorks
13. Azure Def
14. Morf 3D
15. United Semiconductor
