<p>Each team is supervised by one or more faculty advisors, typically with the assistance of several graduate student mentors. Although the teams have been heavily ECE-centric (Electrical and Computer Engineering), we do have teams supervised by faculty advisors from the Schools of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Civil Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. Outside of the College of Engineering, we have teams supervised by faculty advisors from Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Library Sciences, and Psychological Sciences. Our teams are closely tied to the research interests of the faculty advisors who lead them. Several of the teams have close engagement with external partners that are companies or government agencies. The accomplishments of one team has very directly resulted in the award of a large National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to the team advisor and the formation of a start-up company that has been awarded an NSF Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant. Our vision is to continue to grow VIP at Purdue, and to further expand it beyond ECE and the College of Engineering. Within ECE, we are working to have VIP included as an option for completion of the Senior Design requirement.</p>