Sponsor a Project

Advance Your Projects with Gonzaga Senior Design

The School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS) partners each year with about 40 organizations across industry, government, public agencies, non-profits, and academia.

Why Sponsor?

  • Gain fresh, multidisciplinary perspectives on your real-world technical challenges.
  • Invest in your own R&D (teams dedicate a minimum of 640 hours per project).
  • Strengthen your organization’s innovation pipeline while mentoring future engineers.
  • Build visibility and connections within Gonzaga’s engineering and computer science community for recruitment and workforce development.
  • Support experiential learning that empowers students to serve society through technology.
  • Gain access to a wide range of academic experts, equipment, dedicated lab space, fabrication facilities, and computation resources.

What You Can Expect as a Sponsor

  • A specialized team of 3–5 students dedicated to working on your defined project
  • Regular progress updates, milestone presentations, and prototype deliverables
  • Ongoing collaboration with students, a faculty advisor and industry mentor
  • Opportunities to recruit top-performing students for internships and full-time roles.
Start the Senior Design Project Proposal process with your summary, goals, and deliverables.

Milestones

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January–May — Sponsors submit project ideas to start in Fall and meet with CEDE for alignment scoping, and budget review.
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June–August — Project agreements finalized; students select their preferred projects.
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September — Meet Your Team banquet connects liaisons with students and faculty.
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September–April — Team meets regularly with faculty and liaison, presenting progress at mid-term and end-of-semester.
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Late April – Senior Design Expo, final presentation, and awards banquet.

Past Sponsors

  • 2Barrels
  • Avista
  • Boeing
  • City of Spokane
  • Coffman Engineers
  • David Welton DDS
  • DOWL
  • Dragon Jacket
  • D. Dwight Brayton
  • Edo Floats
  • Fire Armada
  • Garco/WSDOT

 

  • Gravity Jack
  • Horrocks Engineers
  • Itron
  • Jetseal
  • Kaiser Aluminum
  • Medcurity
  • Michels Trenchless
  • Orebaugh Enterprises
  • Pangeon
  • Tatitlek Technologies, Inc
  • Treasury4
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