Business & Industry Partnerships

Engage the talent of UW Stout’s students, faculty and staff. Whether you work in industry, with a non-profit organization or with a local community, UW-Stout can help solve your challenges while enhancing our students' hands-on applied learning experiences. Class projects offer you an avenue to engage our students' strengths, grow the future workforce and build awareness of your organization to create a recruitment pipeline of future interns and employees.

Invest in a multi-year collaborative experience with a team of students to fuel innovation. Longer-term projects are designed to simulate and reflect industry practices and produce product designers, engineers, and programmers who gain the technical competencies to understand the application of skills and knowledge.

Serve as an advisor to one of our degree programs. Advisory committee members provide our program directors input on curriculum, insights into future workforce and more while collaborating with faculty, students, industry peers, alumni and other campus leaders. Additionally, advisory committee members have opportunities to guest lecture in classes; host students/classes for tours at their facilities, labs or offices and host on-campus job/internship interviews.

Partner in close collaboration with Career Services to identify a strategic focus for your recruitment efforts at UW-Stout while building deep connections on campus. Secure your recruitment activities with UW-Stout for the upcoming academic year and increase your company branding and visibility through additional marketing efforts and networking opportunities.

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.

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Among the largest career conferences in the Midwest, Stout's campus-wide recruiting events provide direct engagement with students at all levels of your talent needs—full-time hiring for open/future positions, recruiting for leadership development/management training programs or co-op/internship roles. Employers can also host on-campus interviews. 

Strengthen your collaborative relationship with Stout students and the university by participating in our national-award-winning Cooperative Education & Internship Program (CEIP). Managed by Career Services, CEIP is a professional experiential learning program that provides employers a path to recruit emerging talent, enhance our students' career and professional growth and deepen your collaboration with Stout's areas of academic excellence.

Partner with UW-Stout's Office of Research & Sponsored Programs 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.

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, and its extensive networks will help you solve the difficult manufacturing challenges that cannot be solved by others.

Move your ideas from sketches 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.

Move your ideas from sketches 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 (Fab Lab) that serves entrepreneurs and small- and mid-sized businesses in rural Wisconsin and Minnesota.

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The UW-Stout Fab Lab offers innovators, creatives and makers access to 3D printers, laser cutters and other leading-edge digital fabrication tools to bring their imagination to life. 

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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. 

Donating state-of-the-art equipment or providing funding to support the development of labs related to your industry ensures our students are ready with knowledge, skills and experience to fulfill the workforce needs of tomorrow. Impact generations of students and faculty and inform their education through your gift.

As a polytechnic university, our students rely on industry-leading technology and equipment to prepare them to do more in their careers. By consigning the equipment they'll use on the job at your company, you help ensure our graduates are ready to lead industry to the next innovation. And that they graduate with the skill set they need to help you grow into the future. 

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.