Success Stories

Raytheon UCSB’s Technical Staff and Facilities allows Raytheon’s Vision Systems to do Technology Development at a Fraction of the Cost
A true measure of success for university-industry
collaborations is a seamless operation that stimulates new
concepts for potential products. That is what Raytheon’s
Vision Systems (RVS), which develops sensors, electronics
and meta-materials for infrared imaging, feels they get
with their collaborations with UCSB.
Z-Medica Z-Medica and UC Santa Barbara – Engineering life saving technologies
Severe battlefield and trauma injuries present unique problems
in stemming blood loss, which is the primary cause of combat
deaths. In extreme cases first responders may have less than two
minutes to save a life. Recognizing the need to improve survivability
for US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Navy and Marine Corps
evaluated a number of products to
reduce uncontrolled bleeding.
ATK ATK capitalizes on top UCSB engineering students through Capstone
ATK Space Systems – Goleta(ATK-Goleta) is an independent provider of mission enabling deployable space systems. It is prized by its parent corporation, ATK, as an innovator in solar arrays, deployable booms, and related structures and mechanisms. Its exceptional team of engineering, manufacturing and product assurance personnel has had 100% flight success on all space hardware they have manufactured. Given the fact that ATK-Goleta is a key provider of solar array and deployable booms for many of the nation’s space-orbiting devices/satellites, they need to have a consistent source of top technical talent. And, not surprisingly, more than 25% of all ATK employees attended or graduated from UCSB, which is very nearby.
Allergan logo Allergan and UCSB: A Winning Collaboration for California State Grant

Allergan Medical chose to become a member of the Corporate Affiliates Program three years ago. By working through the Corporate Affiliates Program they were introduced to Dennis Clegg, then the chair of the Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology department and the co-director of the campus' stem cell center. Professor Clegg was able to be a resource in many ways by conducting research, helping Allergan Medical to locate a temporary facility on campus to rent, and together, with Allergan Medical, obtaining matching funding through the UC Discovery Program for their research efforts.
ATK Mentor Graphics selects UCSB as their first choice university partner by conducting a comprehensive management survey
Mentor Graphics is a leader in Electronic Design Automation (EDA). Through their well-established products and services, they enable companies to develop better electronic products faster and more cost-effectively. EDA is a very competitive field where having the advantage of interacting with and attracting the best and brightest engineers will give a competitive edge. The Wilsonville, Oregon based company has been successfully engaged with the students and faculty of UC Santa Barbara for a number of years. Recently, Mentor Graphics went through a detailed exercise to rank U.S. universities they interact with. The results were used to determine their priorities for driving university research collaborations and targeted student recruiting in a cost effective manner.
Corning Corning Believes in Long-term Academic Collaborations!
What would our world be like without TVs, cell phones or computers? Few of us can imagine a world without glass and all of the technological advancements it has enabled. Glass has long been the measure of our quality of life, from our earliest ability to store perishables, to enabling Thomas Edison to light the world with his tungsten filaments, to the fiberoptic cables that criss-cross the globe to power the telecommunications revolution; these last two technologies were pioneered by Corning.
Microsoft Microsoft Research: Station Q at UCSB and the future of computing: Moore did not predict the power of a qubit!

What will computers look like in the future and how will they function? The answer to these questions could be
the quantum computer, the most powerful computing device the world has ever known. But creating such a
computer is no easy feat. One of the biggest challenges lies in the delicate temperament of the most basic component
of the quantum computer: the qubit. In a conventional computer, transistors store bits of information and each
bit has a value of either a 1 or 0. The power to motivate a bit is electricity. With a quantum computer, the classical
bit gives way to a quantum bit, or qubit. Qubits are very sensitive to their environment, and are not stored in transistors;
rather, they can be stored in a quantum mechanical state such as a photon polarization, electron spin, or in even more exotic degrees of freedom.
Nova Coast Corporate Affiliates Program Increases Campus Visibility for Novacoast

Novacoast has been recruiting top engineers exclusively out of UC Santa Barbara for over 5 years. Once the word got out about the quality of Computer Science majors who were graduating from UC Santa Barbara, competing for top quality software engineering graduates became more challenging as Microsoft, Apple, Google and others moved in. Novacoast was attending fall
and spring career fairs on campus and discovered the best students were not the ones necessarily attending these events. To assist them with their recruiting efforts, they joined the UC Santa Barbara Corporate Affiliates Program (CAP). This allowed them to significantly increase their visibility on the campus.
Millipore logo Millipore -- Gaining Ground with Research Regeants

Millipore Corporation, a leader in life science technologies, tools, and services for bioscience research and biopharmaceutical manufacturing, has been working with UCSB scientists for less than two years. While the company has collaborative relationships with other universities, its budding involvement with UCSB is already unusual for the broad spectrum of projects in which Millipore is engaged.
Teledyne Technologies Incorporated Teledyne Scientific and Imaging and UCSB-a win-win partnership for over 30 years

Eleven faculty members (including one Nobel Laureate) have recently collaborated with Teledyne Scientific and Imaging to successfully produce leading-edge communications products for commercial and military markets. The partnership has brought over $100 million in federal grants alone to Teledyne. The Corporate Affiliates program is working with Teledyne Scientific and Imaging to find additional technology areas of alignment and growth.

Cytomix logo CytomX and UCSB- For a start-up, collaboration is a successful two-way street
The Corporate Affiliates program provides constant information about new technologies coming out of faculty research on campus as well as providing corporate relations/networking and business development opportunities. Start-up companies out of UCSB, numbering in the hundreds, keep our community and our engagement with society vital. Affiliate members can leverage their finances by using the Corporate Affiliates Program as an extension of their company.
Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman- The charter member of the Corporate Affiliates Program
Based on the joint research and development programs, plus the numbers of alumni Northrop Grumman employs from UCSB, UCSB is one of the top tier schools with which Northrop Grumman works. This status was the impetus behind their interest in helping to instigate a formal outreach program for industry.