All industry members who have contributed at least $50,000 for a particular year are granted full membership and voting rights on the Industry Advisory Board (IAB). The IAB may also choose to accept any number of in-kind members as desired without voting rights. Associate membership requests, intended for Foundations and “start-ups,” will be reviewed by the IAB on a case-by-case basis. Associate members will contribute $25,000 annually and will receive half voting rights.

The Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) helps to guide the C-PEAB site directors, project PIs, and the IAB members in terms of project presentations, as well as issues calls for proposals, decides on project funding by using the IAB voting process at the C-PEAB Semi-Annual meetings.

As a member you:

• Pool funds together to conduct pre-competitive research of relevance to industry partners
• Meet 2 times/year to review discoveries and collectively vote to recommend which projects to fund
• Have access to expert faculty, highly skilled students, and center resources at all sites
• Have rights to a royalty-free, non-exclusive license to generated intellectual property
• Rapid response for teaming up to program announcement for large federal grants
• Priority access for recruiting highly skilled and industry-specific graduates from the Center.

See Member Benefits

The Universities reserve the right to publish in scientific or engineering journals the results of any research performed by the center. Members, however, shall have the opportunity to review any paper or presentation containing results of the research program of the Center prior to publication of the paper, and shall have the right to request a delay in publication for a period not to exceed sixty (60) days from the date of submission to the Member, provided that the Member makes a written request and justification for such delay within thirty (30) days from the date the proposed publication is submitted by certified mail to the Member.

All patents derived from inventions conceived or first actually reduced to practice in the course of research conducted by the Center shall belong to the University. The University, pursuant to chapter 18 of title 35 of the United States Code, commonly called the Bayh-Dole Act, will have ownership of all patents developed from this work, subject to “march-in” rights as set forth in this Act.

The University agrees that all such Center sponsors are entitled to a nonexclusive royalty-free license to such patents. Members will have the right to sublicense their subsidiaries and affiliates. Companies that wish to exercise rights to a royalty-free license agree to reimburse the University for costs of prosecution and maintenance of such patents.

If only one Member seeks a license, that Member shall have the right to negotiate a royalty-bearing exclusive license to such patents through one of its agents. MEMBER has the right to sublicense its subsidiaries and affiliates.