Confidentiality and Intellectual Property

We strongly encourage the student and sponsor to discuss how they will handle confidentiality and intellectual property before the student begins the project.

Sponsors and students may enter into non-disclosure and intellectual property agreements at their discretion. However, professors involved with the course and review board members will not enter into any such agreements. Students must be able to report openly on enough of their project work to receive academic credit.

Please see the Cook Engineering Design Center website for more detailed information on NDAs (non-disclosure agreements), IPAs (intellectual property agreements), and NCAs (non-compete agreements).