The Promoting Electric Propulsion competition has quickly grown into one of the strongest workforce development programs for students interested in robotics, mechanical engineering, and maritime solutions. PEP 24 featured 36 universities, 42 boats in Virginia Beach, and 35 qualified boats. For context, the first collegiate PEP in 2021 at the US Coast Guard Yard in Baltimore had 6 collegiate teams.

We invite you to find your future workforce and support this non-profit STEM program.

What is PEP?

PEP is the Office of Naval Research program focused on today's workforce development. Teams build crewed and uncrewed craft with speed and strength necessary for today's operations.

PEP's 100s of Engineers Achieve Success

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Annual competitors, like Princeton, and first-year teams, like Arkansas Tech, have passionate, innovative student engineers. Pushing boundaries and developing the skills that will empower any organization into the next decade. These students understand how to work with power, put it to use efficiently, work within a team environment, and find solutions to challenging problems. Help us get these bright, enterprising students into our industry!

Sponsorship Opportunities

We can support your workforce development needs by connecting your organization with these students from their initial design through the capstone competition.

PEP Supporter	PEP Sponsor	PEP Champion
Schools supported: 3	Schools supported: 10	Schools supported: 20
Unlimited job postings Recorded job discussion	Unlimited job postings 2 live job webinars	Unlimited job postings 4 live job webinars
Logos on: Team Boats     University Pages	Logos on: Team Boats     University Pages     PEP T-shirts	Logos on: Team Boats     Race Buoys     Safety, Food Tents     University Pages     PEP T-shirts
Full-page ad in Naval Engineers Journal	Inside front cover ad in Naval Engineers Journal	Front page, back cover ads in Naval Engineers Journal
Public SM thanks from ASNE	Public SM thanks from ASNE and PEP teams	Public SM thanks from ASNE and PEP teams Press releases in 3 national publications
	Title sponsor of pre-PEP event	Title sponsor of 2 pre-PEP events
$25,000	$100,000	$300,000

Support HBCUs, Two-Year Institutions

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We have the expertise and drive to support a wide range of schools through this program. HBCUs have had tremendous success in PEP with students already joining companies like Lockheed Martin and Duke Power. This year, Madison Area Technical College even finished second out of 25 schools in the uncrewed divisions. Bring us your partners and we can help them grow!

Support Tomorrow's Navy Today

Please contact us to discuss any opportunities you foresee at education@navalengineers.org.

 

PEP 25 Teams Committed

University of Rhode Island	William & Mary	Texas A&M
Florida Atlantic University	Princeton University	Washington College
North Carolina State	Wake Forest University	University of Pittsburgh
University of Kentucky	University of Iowa	Stevens Institute
Stevens Institute	Johns Hopkins	University of Connecticut
University of Georgia	University of Wisconsin	Virginia Tech
Syracuse University	University of Notre Dame	University of Buffalo
University of Buffalo	Northeastern University	University of Central Florida
University of Virginia	George Mason University	Vanderbilt University
University of Tennessee-Knoxville	University of Alabama	Auburn University
Virginia Commonwealth University	Howard University	University of Illinois
Georgia State	Madison College	Stony Brook
Arkansas Tech	Elon College (new 2025)	Old Dominion University (returning 2025)