Policy on Senior Project Sponsorship

If you have a client or sponsor to whom you would like to present the results of your senior project (outside the required jury presentation to the College’s faculty) and they express an interest in utilizing your results, or modifications thereof, the following procedure must followed:

• Inform the Dean and faculty member in charge of this possible relationship and discuss with them your preliminary ideas on the scope of the proposed project.
• Receive a tentative approval from both of them to follow up on the idea.
• Prepare a project proposal in its required format, along with your budget estimate to cover your out-of-pocket expenses needed to complete the project in its entirety.
• The project proposal will be reviewed by the faculty member in charge of the course, in consultation with the Dean.
• The College reserves the right to add a percentage rate on the budget estimate to cover other project-related expenses of the College. This percentage will be established in consultation with the Department of Contracts and Grants, University of Georgia, and will reflect the rates used for educational service type agreements. The Dean will decide on any exceptions or variances to the rates as stated above.
• The student will then submit the proposal to the client/sponsor for agreement. Upon agreement between the client/sponsor, the College, and the student, the proposal will be signed by the Dean, the faculty member(s) in charge of the project, the student undertaking the project and the client/sponsor.
• The College reserves the rights to all of the original work done and submitted in connection with the project. The original, reproducible drawings are considered the College’s property and may be returned to the student at the end of one year after the date of completion on the project. The original drawings may be borrowed by the client/sponsor for copying purposes or for making sepia copies of the original drawing for their use only in these drawings contain a proper credit to the student, the course and the College.