Engineering - Academics

The Engineering College and Academic departments provide funding and other resources to many of our student project teams each year. Even teams without direct funding make use of College and Department resources including space, faculty time, and staff time. The College of Engineering requires a formal application for teams who wish to be sponsored by the College.  Each year, all teams, both new and continuing, must submit a written “Pre-Proposal to Register” application in the spring and, provided they are accepted, a “Registration and Funding Request” in the early fall.   The applications will be reviewed by department and college representatives to determine whether the team may start up or continue and how much funding will be provided by the college and departments

Note that some individual departments and schools have additional requirements for registered teams that are separate from this process.

Who needs to submit an application? 

Any student project team (except undergraduate research groups working with a faculty member) that answers yes to ALL of the following questions is required to participate in this process:  

• Participates in a design or build process with competition or service as the end result
  
• Requires resources from college or department(s)
  
• Involves more than 10 students 

Pre-proposal and proposal information can be found here.

For the Registration and Funding Process in the fall, please be sure to note the three items (safety plan, roster, detailed budget) you must submit as PDFs to Emily Tompkins at eft24@cornell.edu