The Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business' Experiential Learning courses provide MBA and graduate students across Purdue the opportunity to undertake projects for a variety of organizations and to address important issues and challenges while applying and integrating the knowledge and skills they have acquired during their studies.
Typically, each program area in the Daniels School of Business offers a full-semester experiential learning course in line with their program objectives, and are designed to connect student teams with company sponsored projects. Depending on the program area, projects are offered in the Fall, Spring and Summer semesters.
Accounting Consulting
Accounting projects provide the opportunity for students in their Master in Accounting program to assist not-for-profit and early stage companies with establishing systems to accurately and effectively manage and monitor financial performance.
Contact: Mike Kregar
Analytics and Information Management
Analytics and Information Management projects provide opportunities for students in the MS in Business Analytics & Information Management (BAIM) program or MBA students with concentrations in business analytics or management information systems. These projects can come from any industry vertical or business domain where the partner has data requiring analysis to potentially help with decision-support, policy making, or business intelligence. Deliverables might include descriptive analyses, built and evaluated predictive models, optimization models, decision support system software, or a combination of these.
Contact: Matthew A. Lanham
Corporate Consulting
Corporate Consulting projects are undertaken by MBA and graduate students in Science, Technology, and Engineering working together on project teams that require a cross-functional and interdisciplinary perspective. The projects are typically sponsored at a senior level of the sponsoring organization and address enterprise-level issues and challenges of strategic importance.
Contact: John Burr
Executive Projects
In our Executive MBA program's Active Learning Projects course, teams of 5-6 Executive MBA students -- professionals from a variety of functional areas and industries with 13-16 years’ work experience on average -- consult with their assigned company over a 14-week period. The students’ goal is to address a critical business problem as defined by the company and the team. Recent Active Learning Projects have been in the areas of finance, operations, strategy, and technology, with specific challenges such as entering new markets, launching new services, initiating organizational change, making investment decisions, and restructuring functions.
Contact: Sarah Ham
Human Capital Consulting
Human Capital Consulting projects are undertaken by graduate students in the last semester of their Master of Science in Human Resource Management (MSHRM) program. The projects address human capital problems or challenges and provide an opportunity for students to cultivate the strategic awareness needed to maximize human capital assets.
Contact: Brad Alge
Marketing Consulting
Marketing Consulting projects are undertaken by graduate students in the last semester of their Master of Science in Marketing (MS Marketing) program. The projects address issues and challenges related to the understanding, communication, and delivery of value to an organization’s customers.
Contact: Jinsuh Lee
Purdue NSF I-Corps
Purdue University is a National Science Foundation I-Corps Site. NSF I-Corps Sites provide infrastructure, advice, resources, networking opportunities, training and modest funding to enable groups to transition their work into the marketplace or into becoming applicants for the NSF I-Corps Teams program. With the support and mentorship of the Sites, teams learn first-hand about entrepreneurship and explore the transition of their ideas, devices, processes or other intellectual activities into the marketplace. The I-Corps Sites strengthen innovation locally and contribute to the National Innovation Network of mentors, researchers, entrepreneurs and investors.
Contact: Matthew Lynall
Supply Chain and Operations
Supply Chain and Operation Projects are undertaken by graduate students in the Master of Science in Global Supply Chain Management (MSGSCM) program, MBA students concentrating on operations and supply chain management, and graduate students in Engineering and Technology. Projects address issues and challenges in supply chain, operations, quality, inventory and transportation management.
Contact: Amy David