About Us

MTECH Partnerships is the Clark School of Engineering's vehicle for leveraging university resources to drive growth in companies committed to advancing technology innovation in Maryland.

MTECH Partnerships’ programs, designed to advance technology companies throughout their entire business lifecycles, include:

1. Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program: provides product development funding for research conducted with university faculty.
   
   
2. Maryland Technology Extension Service enhances the competitiveness of Maryland manufacturers by providing best practices and solutions, as well as optimization, implementation, and innovation assistance.
   
   
3. Bioprocess Research and Education Program: provides biotechnology companies and professionals with low-cost bioprocess scale-up and research, as well as downstream processing, courses and workforce training.
   
   
4. Maryland Performance Excellence Awards: measures and recognizes quality, productivity and performance excellence in organizations by presenting the U. S. Senate Productivity Awards and Maryland Quality Awards, based upon NIST’s Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence.
   
   
5. ASPIRE: Co-funds faculty-undergraduate student research projects with commercial applications.