Engineering Research Centers (as of
November 2011)
The major technological areas upon which current ERCs focus are:
- Manufacturing
- Biotechnology and Health Care
- Energy, Sustainability, and Infrastructure
- Microelectronics, Sensing, and Information Technology
Links shown are to center homepages.
Manufacturing
Synthetic Biology ERC (SynBERC)
University of California at Berkeley, CA (lead institution) in partnership with Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Prairie View A&M University, and the University of California at San Francisco; Class of 2006
Center for Biorenewable Chemicals (CBiRC)
Iowa State University in partnership with Rice University, the University of California, Irvine, the University of New Mexico, the University of Virginia, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Class of 2008
ERC for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power (CCEFP)
University of Minnesota in partnership with Georgia Institute of Technology, Purdue University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Vanderbilt University; Class of 2006
ERC for Structured Organic Particulate Systems, (C-SOPS)
Rutgers University in partnership with New Jersey Institute of Technology, Purdue University, and the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Class of 2006
Biotechnology and Health Care
Quality of Life ERC (QoLT)
Carnegie Mellon University in partnership with the University of Pittsburgh; Class of 2006
ERC for Revolutionizing Metallic Biomaterials (RMB)
North Carolina A&T University (HBCU) in partnership with the University of Cincinnati and the University of Pittsburgh; Class of 2008
Biomimetic MicroElectronic Systems (BMES) ERC
University of Southern California in partnership with Caltech and the University of California, Santa Cruz; Class of 2003
NSF Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE)
University of Washington in partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and San Diego State University; Class of 2011
Energy, Sustainability, and Infrastructure
ERC for Quantum Energy and Sustainable Solar Technologies (QESST)
Arizona State University in partnership with the California Institute of Technology, the University of Delaware, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of New Mexico (co-funded with DOE); Class of 2011
Future Renewable Electric Energy Delivery and Management (FREEDM) Systems Center
North Carolina State University in partnership with Arizona State University, Florida State University. Florida A&M University (HBCU), and the Missouri University of Science and Technology; Class of 2008
Smart Lighting ERC
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in partnership with Boston University and the University of New Mexico; Class of 2008
ERC for Re-Inventing America’s Urban Water Infrastructure (ReNUWIt)
Stanford University in partnership with the University of California, Berkeley, Colorado School of Mines, and New Mexico State University; Class of 2011
ERC for Ultra-wide Area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Networks (CURENT)
University of Tennessee–Knoxville in partnership with Northeastern University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Tuskegee University (co-funded with DOE); Class of 2011
Microelectronics, Sensing, and Information Technology
Center for Integrated Access Networks (CIAN)
University of Arizona in partnership with the California Institute of Technology, Norfolk State University (HBCU), Tuskegee University (HBCU), the Universities of California in Berkeley, San Diego, and Los Angeles, and the University of Southern California; Class of 2008
ERC for Extreme Ultraviolet Science and Technology (EUV ERC)
Colorado State University in partnership with the University of Colorado, Boulder and the University of California, Berkeley; Class of 2003
ERC for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA)
the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in partnership with Colorado State University, the University of Oklahoma, and the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Class of 2003
ERC on Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment (MIRTHE)
Princeton University in partnership with the City University of New York, Johns Hopkins, Rice University, Texas A & M University, and the University of Maryland–Baltimore County; Class of 2006
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