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Innovating and
problem-solving
are what STEM
students do best.

Build Skills, Solve Problems for Credit

In the Inventors Program, bright students tackle real-life challenges for impact. Get started on industry research as you join a team, envision a solution, and see what your idea becomes.

Students

Engaging Industry with STEM Learners

Outside groups provide problems for interdisciplinary teams of undergrads to solve. The result? Great ideas for new products and services, plus meaningful new links between industry and STEM students.

Here, We Mean Business for Science

The Inventors Program offers immersive experiences especially for STEM students. Participants are all UT Austin Natural Sciences and Engineering students.

About

How It Works

Inventors
Program

Sprint

Intensive problem-solving sessions

Learn

Innovation-inspired courses

Get Paid

Internships & launch opportunities

Develop

Team-based products and services

What Starts-Up Here

The Texas Scientist magazine profiled UT Austin’s Inventors Program, including its emerging partnership with Army Futures Command, based in Austin. Read More »

This partnership was truly one of the best experiences I’ve had as an undergraduate.

Nina Hua, BS ’18 Public Health