= '''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration''' =
Regarding university-industry collaboration, many connections exist for George Fox University. Several industries are on advisory boards and regularly attend career fairs. These are has connections with many local businesses like such as A-dec, Legacy Health, and Nike, to name a few. Employees of these companies serve on advisory boads and attend regular career fairs. Many are also George Fox alums. Classes in manufacturing and start-up style business make trips to see companies put on display practicing the things that principles they learnare learning about in class. The engineering program also has close relations with local industry through Senior Design projects where , a capstone class in which senior engineers design students develop a product to be used in conjuction with an industrypartner.
= '''Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts''' =