The following table presents the current state of membership and participation. The Center does its work through collaborative projects . Furthermore, every project will have both the active involvement and resource commitments from at least one member company. This member involvement is a precondition for any Center project to be initiated. The institutional participants always include Purdue University and at least one member company, but may include non-member companies, government laboratories or agencies, other universities, or other industrial consortia, if the participants in that project agree to accept them.
Preliminary discussions are generally open to possible participation from any organization.
Matters such as confidentiality and intellectual property rights may be negotiated among the participants within each project. In general, the Center encourages sharing of results. However, we welcome novel approaches or proposals to the handling of intellectual property rights issues, in the interest of learning more about how to deal with them. Arrangements for projects are varied and flexible. They may start or stop at any time throughout the year, may be of any reasonable duration, and of any reasonable size.