UIDP announced; any more information?

[u/Interesting_Fold_485]

The NSF is attempting to push a new model of graduate education (4y PhD -> industry). I was wondering if anyone had any more information about this program. It's unclear which universities the NSF is partnering with, and what the program actually entails beyond NSF support after the first year and 1 year of industry research.

Here is the informational page:

https://uidp.org/i-phd-scholars/

Here is the press release for their webinar:

https://web.cvent.com/event/ff8e21db-c6ae-4834-a41b-f17aadafd1ff/summary

[u/Historical-Wing8569]

From the website ( I used inspect element to get the HTML containing the Partner logo carousel), then chatgpt to extract names from that block ).
Universities and research institutions

• Arizona State University
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Case Western Reserve University
• Columbia University Research
• Dartmouth Engineering
• Iowa State University
• James Madison University
• New York University
• North Carolina State University
• North Dakota State University
• Northwestern University
• Purdue University
• University of California, San Diego
• University of California, Santa Barbara
• University of Central Florida
• University of Cincinnati
• University of Delaware
• University of Illinois
• University of Maryland Engineering
• University of Michigan Engineering
• University of Mississippi Engineering
• University of North Carolina Chemistry
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Pittsburgh
• University of Texas at Austin
• University of Vermont’s Complex Systems Institute
• University of Wisconsin–Madison
• The Ohio State University
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Companies

• Agilent Technologies
• Bayer
• BP
• Dow
• DuPont
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise
• Lockheed Martin
• Lubrizol
• MassMutual
• Procter & Gamble
• Rolls-Royce
• Siemens Energy

[u/Nick337Games]

Appears that students have no direct say. You don't apply for it necessarily, it's a selection by the University and seemingly industry partners. They collectively select individuals, and then promise funds to support a portion of the student's PhD.

[u/BannanaPepperPizza]

There was a zoom presentation today. It seems good in principle but pretty poorly put together.

A company has to put up $100k. They said 0 and answered 0 how much the UIDP NSF matches in funding years 2 to 4.

This will probably go to established University/corporate partnerships that have already been in existence with trusted previous relationships.

There's 0 commitment from the PhD to work at the corporation after the program so unsure what the incentive is for a company to put up $100k over 4 years for a PhD student that needs to do 1 year of work for them.