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Working with Industry
The CyberInnovation Institute is a research
consortium for building collaborative
relationships among ISU’s IT community
and industry partners. To make new
connections, CyberI offers the following
mechanisms for aggressively pursuing emerging
opportunities.
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Research Memberships
The goal of CyberI research
membership is to help IT industry define
their collective needs and interests,
leverage their investment to conduct
mutually beneficial research, and share the
results. CyberI’s memberships are
organized by thrust areas encompassing IT
challenges that span broad industrial
segments, as well as the expertise of
several CyberI centers. Initial thrust
areas are clustered around these broad
topic areas:
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e-Science and
informatics
Applications of data mining,
visualization, and high-performance
computing to enable new discovery and
markets.
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Information security and
knowledge discovery
Effective utilization of
disparate enterprise data and its
secure access and control to enhance
competitiveness.
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Emerging collaborative
technologies New
interface and network technologies for
enhanced product development in
distributed organizations.
Within each of these research thrusts,
members join together in a cooperative
effort to define research projects and pool
funding for near-term, common research
interests.
To facilitate this cooperative effort, the
CyberI will work closely with the members
to identify qualified faculty, students and
industry personnel to conduct the research
projects. Each research membership thrust
area will convene an industrial advisory
board, composed of one representative from
each member organization to make
recommendations on:
- The research projects carried out by
CyberI
- The apportionment of resources to
these research projects
- The addition of new members on
different terms and conditions
- Modifications to the standard
Membership Agreement
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Commercialization R&D
(CR&D) contracts
Primarily center driven, CR&D contracts
allow for new flexible IP relationships;
secure space, data and development to
facilitate proprietary work; and the
possibility for leveraging or spawning
co-located start-ups.
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Start-up Incubator Aimed
at early-stage entrepreneurial IT-based
startups, CyberI provides access to
technical resources, office/lab space,
telecommunications, and shared
administrative support.
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Collaborative Workforce Development
(CWD) CyberI provides
resources and space for industrial partners
seeking to collaboratively develop
Iowa’s IT workforce. This option is
ideally suited to companies that want to
develop, or better exploit, their
relationship with ISU’s IT research
community. The program facilitates access
to undergraduate and graduate students for
internships, co-ops, or hybrid
student/employee relationships. In addition
to facilitating partner access to technical
talent at an early career stage, CWD
partners benefit from the synergistic
proximity of CyberI’s other
IT-intensive partner activities; including
research members, CR&D contract
projects, and start-ups.
Iowa State University has an exceptionally
large and technically diverse pool of
talent from which CWD partners can benefit.
In addition to its strong undergraduate
engineering program (seventh largest in the
US), and a large Computer Science
department, ISU has some of the most
innovative and active interdisciplinary
graduate programs in the country. Centers
within the CyberInnovation Institute host
two of the largest.
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- The Virtual Reality Applications
Center is the home of the graduate
program in Human Computer Interaction
(HCI). This interdisciplinary program
aims at exploring the broad opportunity
and impact afforded by rapidly emerging
interface, network and computational
technologies. The HCI
program offers PhD and MS degrees, as
well as a Professional Certificate, all
offered via ISU's outstanding
distance education facilities. Currently
more than 75 students are enrolled in
HCI.
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Information Assurance Center offers
MS degrees and Professional
Certificates in Information Security
and currently enrolls 119 students.
Facilities
The CyberInnovation Institute provides
substantial new infrastructure (including
physical space, equipment, and services)
to increase IT research and its
commercialization. CyberI is
headquartered on the Iowa State
University campus in Howe Hall, part of
ISU’s Engineering Teaching and
Research Complex. In addition, The CyberI
Technical Collaboration Facility has
17,250 square feet of prime office space
at 2321 North Loop Drive, adjacent to the
ISU Research Park, about two miles from
the ISU campus.
For more information about getting
involved with the CyberInnovation
Institute, contact Lynette Sherer via
email at
or by phone at (515)294-3093.
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