Industry and Community Research

KPU’s Office of Research and Research Services is piloting a KPU Challenge Dialogue series, a collaborative process between industry, community and students. The purpose of a KPU Challenge Dialogue series is to connect students with faculty, industry and government, and not-for-profit organizations to solve practical problems using collaborative research methods.

How a Challenge Dialogue Works

Industry and community identify a challenge they need addressing and students work to provide a demand-driven technology solution with faculty as mentors.  

Submit an Industry or Community Challenge

KPU will work alongside industry and community to gain experiential learning opportunities for faculty and students in any of the four applied research areas:

To submit a project challenge for students to develop and solve during their semester of course work, please fill out the following information.

*Please note, projects will be picked based on educational value, resource availability, and research focus.*

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