As Wisconsin's Polytechnic University, UW-Stout is dedicated to collaborating with business and industry to enhance innovation through career-focused applied learning and research. Below is an overview of how you can work with Stout to engage student talent, partner on industry-focused projects, enhance our curriculum through your professional experience, benefit from our outreach services and help create the workforce leaders of tomorrow.
Recruit Talent at Stout
Collaborate with Career Services to strategize on your recruitment goals and plan your recruitment activities for the upcoming year. As a partnership program member, you'll also get increased visibility for your company's branding through additional marketing efforts and networking opportunities.
Engage with students through UW-Stout's Cooperative Education & Internship Program (CEIP). Our national-award-winning experiential learning program provides employers a path to recruit emerging talent, enhance career and professional growth and collaborate with Stout's academic programs.
Among the largest in the Midwest, UW-Stout's campus-wide recruiting events provide direct connection with students at all levels of your talent needs—full-time hiring for open/future positions, co-op/internship roles and leadership development/management training program.
Used by 750K+ employers, including every Fortune 500 company, Handshake offers industry-leading career technology to connect you with UW-Stout students. Simply log in; post your companies positions, programs and/or events and get connected to our entire network of students and alumni.
Engage Stout Students
Engage UW Stout’s students, faculty and staff talent to help solve your challenges and stimulate innovation. Class projects and capstones offer you an avenue to address issues impacting your business while building awareness of your organization as you grow the future workforce.
Serve as an advisor to one of our degree programs to provide input on curriculum adn insight into future workforce needs. You will also have opportunities to guest lecture; host students/classes for tours at your facilities, labs or offices and host on-campus job/internship interviews.
Stimulate Economic Development
For more than two decades, the UW-Stout Manufacturing Outreach Center (MOC) has worked with small- and mid-size manufacturers to improve processes, enrich talent, develop products and grow business by leveraging our industry experience, teamwork and tech-savvy state-of-the-art skills. MOC offers consulting, training and workforce development. Its extensive networks will help you solve the difficult manufacturing challenges.
Take your ideas from concept, to functional prototypes, to full-fledged manufacturing plans with the help of UW-Stout's Center for Innovation & Development, which operates a Digital Fabrication Lab (FabLab) that serves entrepreneurs and small- and mid-sized businesses in rural Wisconsin and Minnesota.
A partnership between the City of Menomonie, Xcel Energy and UW-Stout, the Stout Technology & Business Park (STBP) is a 403-acre mixed-use technology and business park that offers both commercial and technology-based companies with ample acreage for new development. Ideal owners are industrial and business enterprises involved in research and development, high technology, professional services and manufacturing related to the mission and programs of UW-Stout.
Upskill Your Workforce with Continuing Education/Professional Development
Registered apprenticeships are an industry-driven, nationally recognized credential to prepare the current and future workforce through the application of related instruction and paid work experience.
Partner on Innovative Research
Partner with UW-Stout to drive innovation through breakthrough research. You'll have access to research findings and related intellectual property with the ability to leverage research dollars. And you'll have the ability to mentor and train students with your desired workforce skills.
Become a Stout Donor or Sponsor
Establish an annual or endowed scholarship that reflects your legacy and passion (as general or specific as you wish). Creating a scholarship through the Stout University Foundation is a great way to connect with top students.
Providing industry-relevant equipment adn funding to support our labs ensures UW-Stout students graduate with the knowledge, skills and experience to fulfill the workforce needs of tomorrow. Your gift can impact generations of students and faculty and inform their hands-on education.
Polytechnic students rely on industry-leading technology and equipment to prepare them to do more in their careers. By consigning the equipment, you help ensure graduates are ready to lead industry and innovation with the skill set to grow your operations.
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