Partners in Research and Development
Engage with Penn Engineering.
At your fingertips: Acclaimed faculty, equipped faciltiies, advanced technology, plus ivy-league graduate and undergraduate students, looking for problems to solve, discoveries to make and the chance to prove themselves as innovators and leaders.
Through the Office of Corporate Relations, your organization will have individualized and focused access to Penn Engineering research, technology, faculty expertise, and the most motivated and intellectually inspired students in the field.
You can engage at many different levels, by supporting faculty in specific research initiatives, sponsoring deserving students in a relevant discipline, partnering on research environments that benefit your industry, or offering a fellowship for a graduate student. We welcome your involvement at SEAS and look forward to working with you.
Opportunities for Partners:
- Collaboratively approach your research and development needs
- Leverage our interdisciplinary initiatives that tap resources across the University.
- Interact with our top faculty members
- Sponsor events, programs, faculty and/or or student projects
- Recruit our graduates
- Lecture at our educational and technological events
- Engage in outreach that promotes diversity and access to education
For questions regarding Penn Engineering Corporate and/or Foundation relations, please contact Eleanor Davis, Director of Development for Penn Engineering.
Any questions related to the licensing of intellectual property or to technology transfer should be directed to Trude Amick, Ph.D., Director of Licensing, Physical Sciences at Penn’s Center for Technology Transfer (CTT).
All other questions regarding research policies or procedures at Penn Engineering can be directed to:
Kathleen Stebe, Ph.D.
Deputy Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Web page
Administrative Assistant
Tara Betterbid
114 Towne Building
Phone: 215.898.8241,
Fax: 215.898.0587
Additional resources regarding research funding, along with many helpful research tools and information, can be accessed via the Penn Research Portal.

