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Engineering Research Centers (as of October 2008)

The major technological areas upon which current ERCs focus are:

  • Biotechnology and Health Care
  • Energy, Sustainability, and Infrastructure
  • Microelectronics, Sensing, and Information Technology

Links shown are to center homepages.


Biotechnology and Health Care

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

Quality of Life Technology ERC (QoLT-ERC)
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (lead institution) in partnership with the University of Pittsburgh

ERC for Revolutionizing Metallic Biomaterials
North Carolina A&T State University (HBCU) in partnership with the University of Cincinnati, the University of Pittsburgh

Center for Structured Organic Particulate Systems (C-SOPS)
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (lead institution) in partnership with Purdue University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez

ERC for Biomimetic MicroElectronic Systems
University of Southern California - Keck School of Medicine and Viterbi School of Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, in partnership with California Institute of Technology and the University of California, Santa Cruz

 


Energy, Sustainability, and Infrastructure

ERC for Biorenewable Chemicals
Iowa State University in partnership with Rice University, the University of California, Irvine, the University of New Mexico (MSI), the University of Virginia, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison

ERC for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power
University of Minnesota, Minnea polis, MN (lead institution) in partnership with Georgia Institute of Technology, Purdue University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Vanderbilt University

ERC for Future Renewable Electric Energy Delivery and Management
North Carolina State University in partnership with Arizona State University, Florida State University. Florida A&M University (HBCU), Missouri University of Science and Technology

Smart Lighting ERC
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in partnership with Boston University and the University of New Mexico (MSI)

 


Microelectronics, Sensing, and Information Technology

ERC for Integrated Access Networks
University of Arizona in partnership with the California Institute of Technology, Norfolk State University (HBCU), Stanford University, Tuskegee University (HBCU), the Universities of California, in Berkeley, San Diego, and Los Angeles, and the University of Southern California

ERC for Extreme Ultraviolet Science & Technology
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO (lead institution) in partnership with the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of California at Berkeley

ERC for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (lead institution) in partnership with Colorado State University, University of Oklahoma, and University of Puerto Ricoi at Mayaguez

Wireless Integrated MicroSystems, ERC
University of Michigan (lead institution) in partnership with Michigan State University and Michigan Technological University

Gordon ERC for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems
Northeastern University (lead institution) in partnership with Boston University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

ERC on Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment (MIRTHE)
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (lead institution) in partnership with the City University of New York, the John Hopkins University, Texas A&M University, the University of Maryland–Baltimore County, and Rice University


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