Our Corporate Partners play an important role in our educational mission, providing resources for the program, internships for our students, and mentors for robotics. We have three levels of participation.

If your company would like to be a partner of the DP Engineering Academy, please contact us.

Founding Sponsors

The DPEA recognizes Corporate Sponsors with the following:

1. Logo and description of support on the DPEA website and the Foundation website
2. Logo on the Team 1717 banners and in our competition "Pit"
3. Logo on the competition robot that travels to two California Regional competitions each year
4. Logo on the Team 1717 uniform, worn by team members and mentors to all competitions and local presentations (ten or more per year in the Santa Barbara area)
5. Corporate name included in the title of the Team 1717 in all competition literature

We will also provide lasting recognition to our founding sponsors with a plaque in the Conference Room of the new Elings Center for Engineering Education (scheduled to open in 2011!).

	Afar Communications designs and manufacturers wireless equipment in license-free bands used to deploy data and telemetry networks in demanding applications, including all race cars at NASCAR and Indy 500 events.
	Allergan, Inc. is a multi-specialty health care company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing innovative pharmaceuticals, biologics and medical devices that enable people to life life to its greatest potential - to see more clearly, move more freely, express themselves more fully.
	ATK Space designs and manufactures solar arrays and other deployable structures for spacecraft and is recognized as a world leader in these technologies.
	Enerpro is a leader in the design and manufacture of motor and power supply control components and systems. They are specialists in power electronics control.
	FLIR Systems, Inc. is the global leader in infrared cameras, night vision and thermal imaging systems. Their products play pivotal roles in a wide range of industrial, commercial and government activities in more than 60 countries.
	Impulse Internet Services: A local provider of business telephone and Internet services, Impulse owns and manages one of the largest IP networks in California with conveniently located data centers and network gateways.
	Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, Inc. (LCOGTN) is a privately funded, nonprofit organization that is creating a cutting edge science program with networks of completely robotic telescopes paired with a innovative education program.
	Lockheed Martin - Santa Barbara Focalplane is a world leader in the design, custom development and manufacture of multi-spectral, high speed, large format infrared focal plane array detectors, camera cores and complete imaging systems.
	Mentor Corporation is a leading supplier of medical products for the global aesthetic medicine market. The Company develops, manufactures and markets innovative, science-based products for aesthetics markets around the world.
	Oracle is the largest business software company in the world, with 345,000 customers—including 100 of the Fortune Global 100—and supports these customers in more than 145 countries. Oracle helps customers manage their business systems and information with reliable, secure, and integrated technologies.
	Raytheon Goleta is an industry leader in defense and government electronics, space, information technology, technical services, and business and special mission aircraft. With headquarters in Waltham, Mass., Raytheon employs 80,000 people worldwide.
	Tecolote Research, Inc. is a leading provider of independent cost analysis and other complex financial management services to the Department of Defense (DoD) and Federal Government.
	Valley Precision Products (VPP), a family owned precision sheet metal and machine shop that provides quality products to the computer, electronic, and medical industries.

Sponsors

The DPEA recognizes Sponsors with the following:

1. Logo and description of support on the DPEA website and the Foundation website
2. Logo on the Team 1717 banners and in our competition "Pit"

	Deckers builds niche products into global lifestyle brands by designing and marketing innovative, functional and fashion-oriented footwear, developed for both high performance outdoor activities and everyday casual lifestyle use.
	In Touch Health is a leading provider of Remote Presence (RP) telehealth solutions that empower physicians to easily and more frequently visit with hospital-based patients. Wherever access to medical expertise is limited, RP can effectively extend the physician's reach to manage patient care, thereby removing time and distance barriers.
	Lebow Company is a research thin film laboratory specializing in ultrathin metal foil. As the recipient of two IR-100 awards they lead in the development of ultrathin metal foil XUV filters.
	Neal Feay Co. has grown from the manufacturing of jewelry and slide-rules in the 50's, to skateboards and medical instruments in the 70's, to high-end audio/video/home theater products in the 90's. It is a third-generation family-owned and operated business founded in 1944 by Neal Rasmussen, Sr. and now run by his son Neal and grandson Alex.
	RENCO is an industry leading manufacturer of high quality rotary optical encoders. They offer a wide variety of both standard and custom products. RENCO products have been designed and manufactured at their plant in California for almost 40 years.
	The Santa Barbara Rotary Club is an organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide, who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.
	Santa Barbara Bank and Trust is known in the local area for quality customer service, offering needed personal and business services with a local, knowledgeable staff.
	Sientra offers a compelling array of plastic surgery implantable devices for cosmetic and reconstructive surgery, including Breast Implants, Tissue Expanders, Body Contouring Implants and Specialty Products.