Membership Levels & Fees

There are three membership categories: Advantage, Full, and Associate, with annual fees of $55,000, $31,000, and $16,500, respectively.

Each member defines its own projects (Company-Designated Projects) with an effort equivalent to the allocated Graduate Research Assistant Effort and Faculty Researcher Effort. The scope of each company-designated project is determined jointly by the member representative(s) and the Center investigators.

Membership Type Advantage Full Associate
Membership Fee $55,000 /yr $31,000 /yr $16,500 /yr
Points in Project Selection/Voting 100 50 25
Funding Breakdown
Funds for Member-Designated Project $37,000 $21,500 $11,750
Graduate Research Assistant (Student) Effort $24,000 (50% - 1 yr) $15,000 (25% - 1 yr) $7,500 (25% - 1/2 yr)
Faculty Researcher Effort $13,000 $6,500 $4,250
Center-Designated Project Pool $10,000 $5,000 $2,500
Travel, Supplies, Staff $3,000 $1,682 $750
Indirect Cost $5,000 $2,818 $1,500
Total $55,000 $31,000 $16,500