CyberInnovation
Institute
1620 Howe Hall Ames, IA 50011
CyberI Technical Collaboration
Facility
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Working with IndustryThe CyberInnovation Institute is a research consortium for building collaborative relationships among ISU's IT community and industry partners. To make new connections, the CII offers the different mechanisms for aggressively pursuing emerging opportunities. CII Research MembershipsThe goal of CII 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. CII's memberships are organized by thrust areas encompassing IT challenges that span broad industrial segments, as well as the expertise of several CII centers. Initial thrust areas are clustered around these broad topic areas:
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 CII works closely with the members to identify qualified faculty, students and industry personnel to conduct the research projects. Each research membership thrust area convenes an industrial advisory board, composed of one representative from each member organization to make recommendations on:
Membership levels include annual commitment of:
Member influence on defining the specific research projects within each thrust area is commensurate with their level of financial commitment. Memberships at the two highest levels include dedicated space in the CII Technical Collaboration Facility. If you are interested in discussing a membership, contact James Oliver by email: oliver@iastate.edu, or by phone: 515-294-2649. Commercialization R&D (CR&D) contractsPrimarily 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. Start-up IncubatorAimed at early-stage entrepreneurial IT-based startups, the CII provides access to technical resources, office/lab space, telecommunications, and shared administrative support. Collaborative Workforce DevelopmentCII 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 CII’ 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.
FacilitiesThe CyberInnovation Institute provides substantial new infrastructure (including physical space, equipment, and services) to increase IT research and its commercialization. The CII is headquartered on the Iowa State University campus in Howe Hall, part of ISU’s Engineering Teaching and Research Complex. In addition, CII 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 CII, contact Lynette Sherer via email at cyberi@iastate.edu or by phone at (515)294-3093. |
