Industry Supported Student Project (ISSP) Form and Instructions

Industry Supported Student Project (ISSP)

The Industry Supported Student Project, or ISSP, is a streamlined contracting process designed to allow businesses or individuals the ability to sponsor a student-based project. These projects are typically completed by a team of students as part of their capstone course and usually result in a report that is presented to the sponsor.

To review this contract, you may download it here.  Note, to use this streamlined process none of the terms and conditions can be changed.

Faculty Principal Investigators: Once you and your Sponsor agree to a statement of work and class sponsorship fee, and have confirmed the name and contact information for the technical/administrative contact and name and contact information for the authorized signer for the sponsor, you can initiate the contract. Please click the link below and fill in all the required assigned fields for your role (Participant 1).  When you complete the Participant 1 fields, the workflow will automatically send the form to Participant 2 to complete the data entry, and then to Participant 3 to sign the agreement. NOTE:  Participant 2 and Participant 3 may be the same person.  See more details about the workflow process, below.

ISSP FORM (START WORKFLOW)

1. You, as the Principal Investigator, will start the process and you will fill in all the required assigned fields for your role (AdobeSign - Participant 1).  Note, the Principal Investigator should not be the initiator of this contract if there is a conflict of interest with the sponsor company.
2. You will input any additional supplies and equipment provided by the sponsor, if applicable, and you will input your contact information.  You will complete Attachment A, with the project title, project description, and class sponsorship fee.  (Note, Attachment A allows for more than one project to be included for the same sponsor - if you need to add more projects than the form currently allows, please reach out to grants@calpoly.edu). Then you will be asked to provide the name and contact information for the technical/administrative contact (AdobeSign Participant 2) who completes the data input, and for the name and contact information for the authorized signer (AdobeSign Participant 3) for the sponsor.  Once you confirm your email address the contract will route automatically to Participant 2 and once Participant 2 has completed, the contract will automatically route to Participant 3 (even if AdobeSign Participant 2 and AdobeSign Partcipant 3 are the same individual, it happens in two steps).
3. When the Pre-Award Office receives the partially executed agreement from the Sponsor, the Pre-Award Analyst will create a record in the My Cal Poly Research system and send the Principal Investigator a task to complete via that system, which will include the Scope of Work, Facilities Use and Additional Resources documents. The Pre-Award Analyst will also send an NDAIP form to the Principal Investigator via AdobeSign.  Once the task is completed in My Cal Poly Research, the Pre-Award Analyst initiates Cal Poly's formal internal approval process, following our standard sponsored projects internal reviews.
4. Once the project has received campus approvals, the Sponsored Programs Office will execute the agreement and send all parties a copy of the agreement.