Student Groups
U-M student groups provide companies with access to top student groups, allowing you to find a student who shares your interests and focus. To start searching for students, visit the University’s Maize Pages, a central repository for more than 1,200 student organizations.
Links to many student organizations can be found below, but others are easily accessed directly through their respective school or college, as listed on the U-M Links page.
Important connections include:
Student Projects
Sponsoring a student project can create value for your company on a number of levels. Projects provide opportunities to interface with students and explore solutions to business challenges while giving students hands-on experience in real-world situations. The following matrix outlines some of the most relevant the project sponsorship opportunities available across the university. For more information, click on the name of the individual program to visit its website or click the contact name to send a direct email.
Business Need |
College/School/Unit |
Project Sponsor’s Cost |
Submission Deadline for Proposals |
Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Policy recommendations, sustainability analysis, landscape designs, natural resource management plans | School of Natural Resources and Environment Master’s Project | Student travel and other project-related expenses | Project is conducted on a two-year cycle | Ashley Richardson 734.764.8088 |
| Have your dataset turned into a useful visualization by a master’s student. | School of Information 649: “Information Visualization” | None | Pitches accepted through 4th week of class | Matthew Kay 734.763.2285 |
| New web site development on a web-based Content Management System, utilizing the Drupal open-source platform. | School of Information 631: Agile Software Development for Content Management Systems | None | January 2 for winter term projects | Michael Hess 734.661.2833 |
| Usability evaluation of a website or software application with detailed and actionable feedback | School of Information 622: “Evaluation of Systems and Services” | None | December 5 for winter term projects | Joyojeet Pal 734.764.1555 |
| Improving or repairing an existing information or communication process; Improving or repairing an existing product or service; Evaluating service design, such as processes for walk-in customers at service desks. | School of Information 501: “Contextual Inquiry and Project Management” | None | August 31 for fall term projects, November 19 for winter term | Melissa Chalmers 734.763.7984 |
| Projects consist of needs elicitation, UX requirements analysis, UX design and prototyping, and user evaluation. | School of Information 487: “User Experience Consulting Project” | None | September 8 for fall term projects | Florian Schaub 734.764.5607 |
| Projects revolve around large-scale dataset(s), problems of data manipulation, analysis, and visualization of data. | School of Information 485: “Information Analytics Consulting Project” | None | October 28 for fall term projects | Kevyn Collins-Thompason 734.615.2132 |
| The project should deal with an important public policy problem that involves researching best practices, conducting archival research, interviewing or surveying stakeholders, analyzing financial documents, conducting cost benefit analysis, etc. | Ford School of Public Policy Applied Policy Seminar | Minimal Cost | June 1 for fall term (September-December)October 15 for winter term (January-April) | Elisabeth Gerber 734.647.4004 |
| Lean process design and implementation, business unit manufacturing plan, strategic site assessment, supply chain implementation plan, sourcing plan, new product/process development strategy, product complexity analysis, plant floor layout. Projects include an implementation phase. | Tauber Institute for Global Operations Team Projects | $35,000 participation fee plus student salaries and travel ($25,000 for first time sponsors) | December 1 for May-August summer projects | Raymond Muscat 734.763.4160 |
| Develop advertising campaign strategy | Stephen M. Ross School of Business | None | September 30 | Katherine Burson 734.764.6873 |
| Marketing strategy, market analysis, market entry, strategic planning, financial modeling, sustainability, product launch, operations processes, mergers, and acquisitions | Stephen M. Ross School of Business Multidisciplinary Action Projects (MAP) Program | $5K | Varying dates throughout the year | Chris Tarnacki 734.647.7110 |
| Data Science / Business Analytics projects to design, model, and analyze solutions for open-ended problems with large datasets in applications from healthcare, logistics, marketing and manufacturing domains. | College of Business, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Business Analytics Experience Capstone Project | None | August 15 for Fall term and December 10 for Winter term | Charu Chandra 313.593.5258 |
| Open-ended design projects that afford teams of students an opportunity to design, build, and test a prototype of a mechanical system | College of Engineering ME 450 Design and Manufacturing III | $5K | August 1 for Fall Term, December 1 for Winter Term | Amy Hortop 734.764.4064 |
| Design projects for the two BME capstone design courses that involves the design, build, and test of a prototype for clinical or biomedical research applications. | College of Engineering Biomedical Engineering Design | Project-dependent; should cover the fabrication, validation, and iteration of mock-ups and prototypes | August 1 for Fall Term, November 1 for Winter Term | Rachael Schmedlen 734.763.0575 |
| Year-long engagement with First Year through Professional Masters’ Students on student projects: prototyping, optimization, operations, programming, app development, engineering, chemistry | College of Engineering Multidisciplinary Design Program | $20K | Late spring for projects starting on June 1 | Joy Adams 734.353.5167 |
Sponsorships
Opportunities to sponsor events on campus offer companies the chance to get in front of faculty and students, interact with programs that are relevant to your industry, and deepen connections across campus. Upcoming relevant sponsorship opportunities include:
ECRC Corporate Partner Program
Date: Ongoing
Location: Rackham Auditorium
Girls Encoded
Date: Ongoing
Location: Ross School of Business Colloquium
College of Engineering Honors Program Leadership Retreat or Lunch with Honors
Date: Ongoing
Location: Engineering
Michigan Hyperloop – Sponsorships – About
Date: Ongoing
Location: Engineering
NOiR Runway Fashion
Date: Annual, TBD
Location: U-M Campus
Michigan Ross Datathon
Date: February 22, 2018
Location: Ross School of Business
2018 Society of Environmental Journalists Conference
Date: October 3-7, 2018
Location: UM-Flint
2018 Engineering Graduate Symposium
Date: October 26, 2018
Location: College of Engineering
Tauber Global Operations Conference
Date: November 8-9, 2018
Location: Ross School of Business
Transportation, Economics, Energy & the Environment Conference
Date: October 25-26, 2018
Location: U-M Golf Course Clubhouse