ACRC Consortium membership comes with many benefits:
- Access to cutting-edge, yet affordable research through 30:1 leverage ratio in the consortium
- Access to knowledge from related associate non-consortium, open projects, increasing ratio to >100:1
- Access to cutting-edge experimental facilities at ACRC and at the University of Illinois
- Active participation in ongoing projects and steering of research directions
- Provide input on future research topics and project ideas
- Access to cutting-edge and current research topics being pursued in academia by University of Illinois faculty
- Develop and promote own technology in front of customers
- Use center results with company internal R&D efforts: external validation, shorten internal testing efforts, etc.
- Access to expert knowledge, fresh views, and new ideas: ACRC faculty with well diversified range of backgrounds and research interests, along to other numerous faculty
- Access to teaming opportunities with world leading academic faculty to go after larger federal funding opportunities
- Additional, cost-effective contract research opportunities
- Excellent recruiting opportunities with access to well-trained and educated students that you can interact with throughout the academic career of the student