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Building the engineering work force
Student development | Texas Engineering and Technical Consortium | TI Science and Technology Innovation Fund
TI has been dedicated to building tomorrow's work force through higher education for more than 60 years. We develop university partnerships and programs, contribute financial resources, offer expertise, and donate equipment, all with the goal of making higher education – with a particular focus on science, technology, engineering and mathematics – better and more accessible. TI's efforts reach the top engineering university programs around the world.
Of all U.S. university students graduating with degrees in electrical engineering, nearly half of those receiving a master's degree and 70 percent of those receiving a Ph.D. were international students. TI supports improved visa policies to allow us to attract and retain the world's best talent, particularly graduates from U.S. universities.
In addition, TI is doing its part to grow the domestic pipeline of engineering students. TI works with U.S. universities to prepare their students to become the future engineers that our company, suppliers and customers need. In 2008, TI and the TI Foundation made grants and investments totaling more than $20 million to colleges and universities.
Through the TI University Program, more than 100,000 students across the world use our technology in labs each year to help bring their innovations to life. These global programs are currently part of the strategy for TI's analog, DSP, MSP430 embedded processors and medical businesses.
Student development
To further prepare the future engineering work force, TI offers scholarships and helps develop curriculum and degree programs with universities. Some of these include:
- A high school engineering curriculum, the Infinity Project, to interest more students in engineering as a career.
- Jerry R. Junkins Memorial Merit Scholarships, named in honor of TI's former chairman, president and CEO, are awarded to National Merit Program finalists who are sons or daughters of active, retired or deceased TI employees. In 2008, 21 students received $4,000 each.
Texas Engineering and Technical Consortium (TETC)
As founding members, TI and the TI Foundation invested $2.5 million over five years in the TETC. This unique collaboration among industry, the federal and state government, and universities seeks to increase the number of graduates in engineering and computer science from Texas universities to meet the state's increasing market demands.
Our investment and in-kind contributions have been leveraged to provide more than $27 million in 84 grants at 25 higher education institutions across the state. To date, TETC-funded programs have increased the overall number of electrical engineering and computer science graduates at a faster rate than schools nationwide.
TI Science & Technology Innovation Fund
The TI Foundation issued a three-year $332,400 grant in 2008 to the University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) to create a TI Science & Technology Innovation Fund. The fund will support innovation and entrepreneurial development camps for high school juniors and seniors to increase interest in careers in science and technology. It will also provide scholarships to UT Dallas engineering and science students who take entrepreneurship courses.
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