Jay Tatikonda
EGL BSE Biomedical/MSE Industrial Operations Engineering ’23
I think all the [Tauber] projects are amazing experiences. These projects are intensive, really diving deep into the operations of a company, it’s very exciting.”
Sponsor a Tauber team project to join an elite group of corporate partners and build relationships with top-tier graduate engineering and MBA students and faculty, elevate your University of Michigan presence, explore new ideas in operations, and potentially save your company millions.
Tauber student teams uncover significant opportunities for savings and efficiencies at sponsoring companies – and drive organizational improvements in project fields such as data analytics, sustainability, supply chain, strategy, and more. The 2025 Tauber team projects returned a 3-year projected savings/cost-efficiency/revenue generation of over $5 billion, in addition to valuable workflow and sustainability improvements.
Team Project Application
In today’s competitive world, Industry needs a new kind of leader – someone who can operate as a specialist, but also understand and manage the full scope of operations – someone who can lead on the plant floor and in the boardroom. Industry needs highly-capable, custom-trained talent, and the Tauber Institute creates these exceptional individuals. Tauber Institute team projects are your way of capitalizing on their abilities and experiences.
Team projects are highly visible operations-related challenges with both engineering and business components — a successful project results in a significant return on a sponsoring company’s investment. The projects have historically delivered significant financial savings as well as improvements in areas such as CO2 emissions, energy consumption, throughput time, and supply chain risk.
The 2025 Tauber team projects returned projected 3-year savings and/or increased revenue of over $5 billion, in addition to valuable workflow and sustainability improvements. The comprehensive information in this section addresses the importance of Team Projects in your organization and gives you the necessary tools to participate in this valuable program.
Tauber staff can help you with an application for a Tauber Team Project. For more information, contact Managing Director Anne Partington or Associate Director for Industry Partnerships Mary Crosby.
Companies partnering with the Tauber Institute benefit from:
Team Projects are multidisciplinary, collaborative internships where students work on operations issues to potentially earn or save sponsoring companies millions of dollars. In these custom opportunities, students demonstrate their skills to a demanding audience and show they can outperform expectations.
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