Our greatest opportunities depend on empowering engineers and designers to pursue advances in technology and to deploy them for the benefit of all of us. Only by partnering with like-minded organizations like yours can the ATLAS Institute achieve such outsized impact. Large corporations, non-profit groups, national laboratories, and start-ups鈥攚e believe in building听mutually-beneficial relationships with those at the vanguard of radical creativity and invention.

When you collaborate with us, you engage with exceptional research teams who cross-pollinate among leaders in many fields. This broadly interdisciplinary approach sets ATLAS apart in developing novel tools, technologies and techniques to solve practical problems and enhance our lives.

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Augmented Reality to improve industrial maintenance and safety, mesoscale polymers for self-assembled soft machines, tools everyday weavers can use to make their own smart textiles鈥攐ur partner-driven research can take many surprising forms.听

The ATLAS Institute鈥檚 breadth of research is our greatest asset. Our community is built around technology visionaries and virtuosos who feel limited by roles in more traditional settings. Our labs further benefit by welcoming students from many different disciplines to bring their talents to the research.

Learn more about the sponsored research projects ATLAS labs have听worked on.

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The Power of Partnership

Build a pipeline of qualified candidates for research, engineering and design听roles at your organization.

Pursue visionary research toward your organization's long-term business goals and outsized impact.

Collaborate with a thriving community of scientists, engineers, designers, makers, thinkers, doers and artists.

Ways to Engage

Your support can manifest in many ways.

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Capstone
Sponsor an undergraduate team on a research-driven senior project.

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Focused Inquiry
Embark on a single line of research with an interdisciplinary team.

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Deeper Insights
Collaborate with a lab director on a comprehensive research program.

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Institute听Sponsorship
Support our听mission to foster radical creativity and invention.

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Long-term relationships are built on shared interests. Let鈥檚 find a time to chat about how we might collaborate.

Ellen Yi-Luen Do
ellen.do@colorado.edu
Professor, ACME Lab Director
Director of Partnerships and Innovation

ATLAS Sponsors

The ATLAS Institute appreciates the support of our sponsors in advancing听our collective understanding of the world.

NSF, Ericsson, EPRI, VEX Robotics, Accenture, Trimble, Tronrud Engineering, Diamond Age Technology, NASA, Colorado OEDIT