Sponsors
Our program is made possible thanks to the generous support of these organizations.
An independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 “to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense….” With an annual budget of $7.3 billion (FY 2015), NSF is the funding source for approximately 24% of all federally supported basic research conducted by America’s colleges and universities. In many fields such as mathematics, computer science and the social sciences, NSF is the major source of federal backing. http://www.nsf.gov
The Murray Slater Foundation is dedicated to helping mankind through engineering. Murray Slater worked as an engineer in multiple disciplines, including transportation, nuclear, and chemical engineering. He also briefly taught in the engineering department at California State University, Northridge. Murray loved his work as an engineer that helped society and wished to pass this passion on through creating this foundation. The Foundation plans to help mankind in many ways, whether it be through funding engineering education, public engineering projects, or engineering focused charities. https://murrayslaterfoundation.org/
Micron Technology, Inc., is a global leader in advanced semiconductor systems. Micron’s broad portfolio of high-performance memory technologies—including DRAM, NAND and NOR Flash — is the basis for solid state drives, modules, multichip packages and other system solutions. Backed by more than 35 years of technology leadership, Micron’s memory solutions enable the world’s most innovative computing, consumer, enterprise storage, networking, mobile, embedded and automotive applications. https://www.micron.com/
Siemens is a technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, transport, and healthcare. From more resource-efficient factories, resilient supply chains, and smarter buildings and grids, to cleaner and more comfortable transportation as well as advanced healthcare, we create technology with purpose adding real value for customers. By combining the real and the digital worlds, we empower our customers to transform their industries and markets, helping them to transform the everyday for billions of people. https://www.siemens.com/global/en.html
Ranked among the top three engineering schools in the world, the University of California, Berkeley College of Engineering offers a dynamic, interdisciplinary, hands-on education; challenges conventional thinking; values creativity and imagination; and engages students and faculty who are driven by social commitment and a desire to change the world. In the classroom, the research lab, or the design studio, the Berkeley Engineering community is both welcoming and tightly knit. Whether pursuing groundbreaking research or teaching students, our faculty members are engaged and accessible. We’re a village of entrepreneurs and collaborators within the big city of a renowned public university. http://engineering.berkeley.edu
Past Program Sponsors
Qualcomm – Premier Sponsor: 2018, 2019
SanDisk – Premier Sponsor: 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018
The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation – Founding Partner Sponsor: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018
Crunchyroll – Founding Partner Sponsor: 2016, 2017, and 2018
State Farm – Partner Sponsor: 2018
The Aptiv Foundation – Scholarship Sponsor: 2018
“When women are not involved in science and technology, experiences, insight, and needs that are unique to women are overlooked and innovation is limited.”
Member of theThe Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation