What being a BUILD sponsor means to you

In addition to the training intellectual property, physical training facilities, top talent resources, and accreditation infrastructure, we are creating unprecedented technical leadership and an unsurpassed workforce on a national level. This will give us an unprecedented consultant capability comprising of brain trust academia, an cadre of super-capable engineers, and manufacturing resources beyond existence in today’s world.

If you would like to help The BUILD Program invest in building this cadre, please contact us.

To date we have thus far not accepted donations, but our funding plans must respond to the changing education environment and we will soon be changing this policy.

We believe this program is what is right for the country and we want to expand the BUILD program into a national program. Our goal is to have one BUILD school in every state within a decade. This will obviously require some serious funding sources, and the expansion will proceed when funding sources are secured.

The Build program will continue to fund development of team-oriented hands-on multidisciplinary engineering education mostly at the post secondary level. We will also continue to fund developments such as the University Educational Antenna Chamber project - a project aimed at creating $1000 antenna chambers for schools (it’s challenging to get a truly functional commercial chamber for less than $1,000,000). Both of these numbers include the chamber itself (e.g., the structure and absorber), the equipment (e.g., VNA), and the software.

We want to continue the BUILD Foundation work. In particular, the BUILD foundation will continue to fund K-12 STEM programs especially in Title I schools and children and adults with disabilities. Children/adults with physical disabilities, especially hearing and vision loss, as well as those on the autism spectrum are often able to solve production problems that those with intact systems overlook and we want to explore missing opportunities in this area. We want to encourage STEM learning in elementary and secondary education for children with disabilities and include them in every part of the engineering field.

If you would like to contribute to the BUILD Program or BUILD Foundation’s efforts, please contact us.

While we are looking to public fund support to develop and establish the BUILD program, we have always planned on corporate sponsorship to maintain and sustain the BUILD program.

With the shift of responsibility to the states, education is becoming very important to local communities. With the loss of many federally funded programs, the states will need to find another solution. By focusing on the needs of their local communities, states will be able to focus their attention on educating for their specific community and industrial needs. This, hopefully, will attract local sponsors whose interests in the community are can be focused.

We want to create unprecedented technical leadership and an unsurpassed workforce. Given that neither tax dollars, universities, nor the students will be able to provide the significant resources necessary to sustain the program, we seek to attract corporate sponsors. Such industry partners would provide mentorship training, human resources, and resources for the projects for all four courses. Sponsors are incentivized.

Why Sponsor the BUILD Program?

Sponsoring the BUILD Program isn’t just philanthropy — it’s smart strategy. Here’s what you gain:

  • Direct Access to Top-Tier Talent
    Build relationships with skilled students before they enter the job market.

  • Seamless Integration with Your Co-Op & Internship Programs
    Tap into a pipeline of students already trained in real-world, multidisciplinary project work.

  • Custom In-Situ Internship Opportunities
    Collaborate with BUILD to create internships tailored to your needs — on your turf, with your tools.

  • Elite Capstone Teams
    Access student teams capable of solving high-impact problems with deliverables that matter.

  • Early Exposure to Your Tools and Components
    Introduce students to your trade tools and components during their BUILD training — and make them standard in their future workflows.

  • Mentorship as a Competitive Advantage
    Our top-notch mentor training means your staff can support students effectively while developing their own leadership and teaching skills.

For the initial five-year development phase of the BUILD program, we plan to seek a combination of public funding and private sources to develop the curriculum and build the labs for a founding group of schools with students graduating at the end of year five. As the program progresses, industry partnerships will be incorporated to help to fund and support the program to ensure its sustainability. It is a designed to be an aggressive yet practical plan.

If you are a BUILD sponsor, you are going to have first round draft choice of the very best engineers money can buy. You will also have the BUILD worldwide student body using your tools.