Membership Program
Our vision for knowledge dissemination and technology transfer will be achieved by creating active partnerships with our practitioner partners in planning, research, education, and technology transfer.
Planning
Practitioner partners influence CASA's strategic direction through the semi-annual industry advisory board meetings, participation in our systems design reviews for test beds, SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis, and review, critique, and assistance with individual research projects.
Research/Systems Implementation
Participation in the research and development of CASA's systems-level test beds is a significant component of our practitioner partnership program. Activities range from involvement in the development of component technologies (including solid-state radar design and real-time weather algorithm development), to receiving and using the data from DCAS systems. CASA's focus on creating a series of system-level test beds, with increasingly sophisticated technology and capabilities, helps to bridge the gap between industry's need for short term results and academia's longer term research goals.
Education/Outreach
Our education and outreach activities reach students, our practitioner members, and CASA researchers through seminars, faculty/engineer exchanges, and hiring/student internships.
Technology Transfer
Technology transfer occurs in four different ways, including: knowledge transfer through the academic/practitioner partnerships; use of DCAS data for the creation of value-added products and decision support tools; commercialization of component technologies; and, over the longer term, system deployment. In addition our Intellectual Property (IP) policy, which provides for non-exclusive, royalty free access to CASA IP, encourages our principal partners to license IP and then to create additional sponsored research contracts to develop commercialize able products from CASA's proof-of-concept technology offerings.
Industrial Consortium members support CASA with tiered cash fees and in-kind support according to a specific schedule and based upon company size.
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Principal Members
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Associate Members
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- $40K - $10K annual cash fee; $150K - $25K in-kind commitment
- Membership on Industrial Advisory Board, input on center strategy and research
- Option A members: Early access to intellectual propery - invention disclosures and center publications
- Option B members: no special access to intellectual property
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- Significant in-kind commitment of strategic importance to Center
- No membership on Industrial Advisory Board; involved in specific research only
- No special access to intellectual property; participation restricted to open meetings
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For more information about joining the CASA Industry Consortium, please contact CASA's Industry Liaison Officer.
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