Faculty Involvement
Why Faculty
Establish VIP Teams

Access to Different Majors
Student Talent & Leadership
Expand Scholarship & Exploration

Faculty Benefit by Involvement
Expand Faculty Scholarship & Exploration
Low Risk Setting: Develop Ideas & Concepts for Proposals
Education/Broader Impacts for Proposals
Attract/Recruit Grad Students
Expand Your Scholarship and Exploration Activity
- Get scale and continuity to expand research scope
- Build testbeds; get real users; test for commercialization
- Include all needed disciplines in your projects
Recruit Outstanding Graduate Students
- Assess creativity, leadership, determination of team members
- VIP students have depth and breadth before becoming a grad student
- They have both participated in research
Increases Chances for Research Funding
- VIP for education, broader impact, DEI, workforce development in proposals
- Time to prove an idea – lead up to proposal

office hours
M-F: 8am - 3:30pm
Address
University of Delaware
Phone
(302)-831-4997