Partner With BCOE
Bring your ideas, expertise, or support to UC Riverside's Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering. Together, we can create opportunities for students and connect engineering research with the needs of industry and communities.
Engineering moves forward together.
Some partnerships begin with a student internship. Others start with a research question, a design challenge, or an invitation to mentor. At BCOE, meaningful collaboration comes from connecting the right people around a shared goal.
Explore the opportunities below to find the starting point that makes sense for you or your organization.
Ways to Partner With BCOE
Connect with student talent, collaborate on technical challenges, or invest in opportunities that help future engineers succeed.
Recruit Highlander Engineers
Meet students and graduates through internships, co-ops, employer events, and hiring opportunities. UCR's Career Center helps employers connect with candidates and post positions.
Explore Employer Recruiting
Collaborate on Research
Connect with faculty expertise, research centers, and consortia working on challenges in transportation, energy, advanced technologies, and other engineering fields.
Explore Research Partnerships
Sponsor a Capstone Project
Bring a real technical challenge to a student team, offer guidance, and see how ideas develop into designs and prototypes.
Explore Capstone Partnerships
Invest in Future Engineers
Support scholarships, undergraduate research, student organizations, and programs that broaden opportunities for students.
Explore Giving
Mentor and Volunteer
Share professional experience with students through panels, conversations, project feedback, and college events.
Explore Alumni Involvement
Expand STEM Opportunities
Get involved with programs that introduce younger students to engineering, computing, and hands-on discovery.
Explore K–12 Outreach
Partnerships take shape in the work itself.
An industry-supported capstone can turn a technical challenge into a learning opportunity. Students work through design decisions, receive feedback, and present what they build. Partners get to engage with emerging engineering talent firsthand.
See How Capstone Partnerships WorkHow to Get Started
You don't need to have every detail worked out before reaching out.
Tell us what interests you
Share your hiring goals, research question, project idea, or the kind of student opportunity you'd like to support.
Connect with the right people
We'll help identify the relevant college contact, program, or campus resource for a conversation.
Explore a next step
Discuss possible activities, expectations, and timing together before deciding how to proceed.