“The Business Engagement Center model is widely recognized as defining the leading edge of integrated corporate relations practice.”
Ed Krause
Ford Motor Company
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Increase in corporate research awards at U-M over the past decade
$ Million in corporate investment in FY18
Corporate visits hosted by our office in FY18
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Connecting corporate diversity initiatives with those of the University of Michigan is a strategic priority at the BEC.
News & Events
Engagement Day @ UM-Dearborn
January 23, 2020 University Center – Kochoff
Engagement Day celebrates the depth and breadth of engagement on campus and in community between UM-Dearborn faculty, staff, students, and community partners.
UMSI Career Fair
January 30, 2020 Michigan League Ballroom
Attend the UMSI Career Fair to enhance your campus presence, promote your organization, meet & engage with hundreds of enthusiastic students looking for internships and full-time jobs.
Environment & Sustainability Career Fair
January 28, 2020 Michigan League Ballroom
Employers with an immediate or growing need for sustainability expertise can still register to participate in UM’s sole university-wide annual event focused on green career/internship opportunities and recruitment.
UM-Dearborn College of Business Graduate & International Talent Fair
January 30, 2020 Quad EFairlane Center North
College of Business graduate students and all international students on a F-1 Visa attend the Talent Fair to network with employers.
Winter Engineering Career Fair
January 28-29, 2020 Pierpont Commons
The Winter Engineering Career Fair is hosted by the Engineering Career Resource Center. This event is intended for organizations looking to recruit a wide variety of engineering, computer science and data science students for full-time, internship and co-op positions.
College of Engineering and Computer Science Career & Internship Fair
February 13, 2020 . Quad E Fairlane Center North
UM-Dearborn students meet employers seeking to hire students, network with industry leaders, and learn about job opportunities.
U-M and TRI researchers provide control software to ensure autonomous vehicles stay in their lane
A joint research project between the University of Michigan and Toyota Research Institute was awarded a Best New Application Paper Award by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society for their work developing reliable control systems for Lane Keeping and Adaptive Cruise...
Campus leaders on the future of education, creative engagement, and rebuilding a vibrant community
Stella Wixom, Senior Executive Director of the Business Engagement Center, sat down recently with the School of Education's Dean Elizabeth Moje to learn more about The School at Marygrove and how and why this should be on the radar of corporate partners in Detroit....
APPLE/U-M HEARING STUDY TO FOCUS ON SOUND EXPOSURE IN DAILY LIFE
Contact: Nardy Baeza Bickel, 734-763-0368, nbbickel@umich.edu ANN ARBOR—Noise exposure has often been associated with occupational activities that lead to hearing loss: the banging noises at construction sites, airplanes lifting off at airports, loud machines in...
Success Stories
Read about the impact of industry and university connections in our case studies, white papers, faculty features, and corporate engagement articles.