I. Contact Information

Please provide your contact information, including company information and title and telephone numbers.

Name

Company

Address1

Address2

City , State AK AL AR AZ CA CO CT DE DC FL GA HI IA ID IL IN KS KY LA MA MD ME MI MN MO MS MT NC ND NE NH NJ NM NV NY OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TN TX UT VA VT WA WI WV WY , Zip

Preferred phone

Preferred Email

II. UIC Degrees with years:

BS Year

MS Year

PhD Year

III. Judging Category Preferences

From the categories below, please indicate your top three choices of assignments, placing the appropriate number next to the category. Although we cannot guarantee that you will be assigned to one of your choices, we will make every effort to do so.

Assistive Technology and Universal Design: Projects involving assistive devices or technologies, and projects incorporating the principles of universal design.

Electronics: Projects involving automotive electronics.

Security: Projects involving security, sensing, monitoring, and remote control.

Conveniences, Sports & Leisure: Projects involving personal and household conveniences, and sports and leisure products.

Specialty Electronics and Signal Processing: Projects emphasizing electronic circuitry or signal processing.

Tools, testing and Manufacturing: Projects involving tools, testing equipment, or machinery and processes involved in manufacture and assembly.

Mechanism and Device Design: Projects emphasizing innovative mechanical mechanism and device design.

Structure/Site Design: Projects involving buildings and structural design.

Infrastructure Design: Projects affecting essential sub-units of larger projects.

Environmental/Health/Safety: Projects affecting the environment or public health and safety.

Process Design Projects involving chemical processes. .

Medical: Devices and Instrumentation: Projects involving devices, instruments, or instrumentation with direct or indirect clinical relevance.

Medical: Cellular and Molecular: Projects utilizing substantially cellular or molecular scale approaches (including software-based) to address problems related to the medical and life sciences.

Education: Projects involving education and instructional tools.

IV. Engineering EXPO 2008 Support

Senior Design EXPO is the capstone event of the undergraduate educational experience. Over 2,000 participants and visitors will attend EXPO. Your sponsorship or gift to underwrite EXPO may include naming of the event or judging categories, and offers a variety of means of public recognition. Please indicate your interest. You will be contacted by Nancy Cohen, Director of Development, ( njcohen@uic.edu or 312-996-2168) to discuss specifics.

Named Senior Design EXPO - $7,500: 1) The Engineering Senior Design EXPO will carry your corporate or individual name as the Principal Sponsor. This official name will appear on all banners, announcements, literature and signs. 2) Additional recognition will be given in the College of Engineering alumni magazine, Engineering News , and on the College Web site, and through other college or UIC media outlets. The College has over 18,000 alumni. 3) As the Principal Sponsor, your company will be entitled to the only corporate display space within the EXPO hall. 4) Your company representative will be invited to participate in the Awards ceremony with College Deans and administrators.

Corporate or Individual Underwriter - $2,500: 1) As an underwriter, you or your company will be recognized in event announcements and literature, in the College alumni magazine and on the College Web site, on signs and in a donor recognition ceremony. 2) Three first place category awards will be named for you or your company. 3) You or your company representative will be invited to participate in the Awards presentation of these three prizes.

Sponsor a project design category - $500: 1) One $500 first place category award will be presented in your name. Category awards are given to the first place team usually consisting of 3-5 students, who share the prize. 2) As a sponsor, you or your company will be recognized in event announcements and literature, in the College alumni magazine and on the College Web site, on signs and in a donor recognition ceremony.

Provide token gifts to student team members : hats, pens, key chains, t-shirts, etc. The number of token gifts and how they are distributed is up to you.

Thank you for volunteering to be a Corporate or Alumni Judge at Engineering EXPO 2008. In early April, we will provide you with details of your assignment.

Project abstracts will be available on line or if you wish, they will be sent to you by e-mail.

If you have any questions or need additional information contact
Chris Kuypers at ckuype1@uic.edu

Your gift in support of Engineering EXPO 2008 is tax deductible to the extent allowed under the law.

Checks should be made payable to the University of Illinois Foundation and mailed to Nancy Cohen at UIC College of Engineering (MC 159), 851 South Morgan Street, Chicago, IL 60607-7043. In order for us to properly prepard for this event, please notify us by April 3, 2008 if you are able to be a sponsor for EXPO 2008.

Donors will be recognized at the EXPO 2008 and in Engineering News, the alumni magazine for over 17,500 alumni and friends