Department of Technology at Illinois State University

 

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utreach/Consulting

The Department of Technology provides Outreach and Consulting through Technology Transfer and Corporate Services which was established in 1990 so that corporations, governmental agencies, and individuals would have coordinated access to the vast resources of the university in order to advance their technological and economic development.

Research

Research is one of three principle items in the mission of Illinois State University. Research is conducted by faculty in the Technology Department. The high research standards of Illinois State University and the Department of Technology are recognized by the many grants awarded each year from the National Science Foundation and other Federal and State governmental agencies.

The campus of Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois has State-of-the-Art research facilities and laboratories. Illinois State University has research partners and clients in the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Government, and Fortune 500 companies.

"Technology Transfer and Corporate Services" in the Department of Technology at Illinois State University is available to partner on research topics with corporations and governmental agencies.

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

Consulting

The Technology Transfer and Corporate Services' consultants excel at identifying solutions that meet the needs of clients. Faculty and staff are available to provide onsite support, expertise, and guidance in a host of project areas.

Deliverables are customer defined and may take the form of written reports, personnel and human capital management improvement, and product design, analysis, and testing. Exemplary consulting projects have addressed: rapid prototyping; CAD and UniGraphics product development, support, and modeling; workforce development issues; best practice development and guidelines; project initiation, planning, monitoring and controlling, and evaluation; analysis and design of experiments; six sigma project selection and much more.

 

Training

Technology Transfer and Corporate Services' offers professional non-credit certification training to corporations, governmental agencies, organizations, and individuals. Certification program curricula may be custom generated from any subject offered through credit courses and-or within the expertise of faculty and staff.

Upcoming Workforce Development Training Offerings:

Project Managment (Blended/Online)

Quality Management (Blended/Online)

Technology Transfer and Corporate Services' has customizable, certification programs in many areas of great interest to business such as:

Project Management
(Process, Deliverables)

Quality Management
(Quality Planning, Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Organization Excellence, Statistics, Design of Experiments, Six Sigma Green & Black Belt)

Certification programs are typically 75 contact hours in length and may be condusted within the clients facility or on campus. Program scheduling is highly flexible.

Technology Transfer and Corporate Services' at Illinois State University is interested in developing customized training programs for corporations and governmental agencies.