All CNSE faculty work closely with corporate partners and public and private research organizations on cutting-edge research that tackles the real-world problems that most concern industry. Below is a partial listing of CNSE faculty research partners:

Advanced Micro Devices ASML Air Products Applied Materials Benet Laboratories Blasch Precision Ceramics Center of Excellence for Infotonics Center of Excellence for Environmental Systems  Critical Imaging CVD Equipment DARPA  DuPont EVGroup EYP Mission Critical  Ferro Corporation General Electric Genus Honeywell  IBM Infineon  Intel International SEMATECH Inverter Unlimited Inc.

KLA Tencor Lehman Brothers  M&W Zander MARCO MKS Instruments Materials Diagnostics  Micron MTech Labs Nano Ink NYSERDA NYSTAR Planar Semiconductor Corp. Plug Power Praxair Precision Flow Technologies Raytheon Corp. SEMI Semiconductor Research Corporation Starfire Systems Syracuse MDA Thermo Electron Tokyo Electron Veeco