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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Currently, the largest University-Industry collaboration event is the Job Fair. During the Job Fair, industries across the world come to UPRM in order to recruit students for internships, coops, or full-time positions. However, the Job Fair is also the best way for student run organizations to create partnerships with these industries. Most student organizations count with one or more sponsorships that are provided by recurring companies that come to Mayaguez to recruit. These sponsorhips can also fund labs and research projects. Another university-industry collaboration are the Capstone projects. In these projects, graduating engineering students are sent to an industry to solve a design problem which is assigned to them. The engineering student has to solve the industrial problem using all the knowledge aquired from their undergraduate studies and write a mini thesis in order to succesfully complete the course. </span>
= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts:</span><br/> =
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></span>Entities such as INprende, Guayacan, EntrePrize, and Parallel 18 are constantly visiting Mayaguez in college tours in order to see what the students of UPRM are up to in terms of entreprenuership and innovation, and to find local talents and startups to fund. Parallel 18 is a startup incubator and accelarator belonging to the Puerto Rico Science and Research Fund which finds 18 startups from Puerto Rico and the world to fund and mentor for a year. Parallel 18 has great connections with UPRM and the E-ship Network, and is very invested in the students and their ideas. There have been 3 startups that have entered Parallel 18 that have come directly from Mayaguez, and there are many students that work on their offices as interns. Another important entity is Vitech, a local startup accelerator which has its offices near campus. The Vitech offices include a space that is awareded to startups that come from the UPRM, even if the students are still studying.
= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2017</span> =