Wind River University Program

Wind River's University Program allows students and faculty at colleges and universities to use Wind River's state-of-the-art device software development tools for curricula and research projects.

Globally, more than 200 universities and 25,000 students participate in Wind River's University Program.

"We have been using Wind River products for nearly [a] decade. ... Our real-time courses, based on a VxWorks/Tornado environment, have been very successful producing ... graduates assuming software development positions in such companies as Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Guidant ..." –Embry Riddle Aeronautical University

Colleges and universities may apply to receive software donations of Wind River technology. Donated licenses are for nonprofit educational use by full-time students and professors and may be used in the following:

Courses that teach embedded systems concepts
Graduate and undergraduate projects for various engineering and non-engineering courses
Academic research activities where research results are publicly available
Graduate student theses

Application Instructions

To apply for the Wind River University Program, complete the following documents and email the complete application package to university@windriver.com or fax it to 510-749-2454. Applications can only be submitted by a faculty member of an accredited university.

Software for Teaching Software for Research Software for both

For Software to Teach Courses

Application packages require the following completed documents:

Teaching Proposal
Addendum
Agreement—must be signed by a faculty member
EPCI (in countries where applicable*)

* EPCI screening is mandatory for all countries not included in the following list: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States (This does not include U.S. distributors or resellers who may be selling outside of the United States or selling to parties that may be located in the United States but who intend to export Wind River products to a nonexempt country.)