PRAIRIE offers structured partnership: students prepared for AI-transformed workplaces, faculty engaged with industry challenges, collaborative relationships that provide mutual value.
Join the Industry Advisory Board
Seven inaugural members from agriculture, defense, manufacturing, infrastructure, and financial services. Meets every other month. Strategic input on PRAIRIE's direction, early access to talent, co-creation of curriculum.
Sponsor an industry day at Husker AI Days
Four partner days in 2026 (Google, MathWorks, OpenAI, Microsoft). Direct student engagement, faculty connection, brand presence at the College's flagship AI event.
Reverse pitch at the Applied AI course
Bring a problem from your business to the senior Applied AI class. Students develop solutions over the semester.
Hire our graduates
Engineering graduates with demonstrated AI competency in their discipline, judgment about responsible use, and the technical skills to evaluate AI-generated work.
