Engineering Research Centers (as of February 2008)

The major technological areas upon which current ERCs focus are:

• Bioengineering
• Manufacturing & Processing
• Earthquake Engineering
• Micro/Optoelectronics and Information Systems

Links shown are to center homepages.

BIOENGINEERING

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 the Engineering of Living Tissues
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (lead institution) in partnership with Emory University

Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (lead institution) in partnership with the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Carnegie Mellon University, the Johns Hopkins University Hospital, MIT, and Shady Side Hospital

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

Center for Advanced Engineering of Fibers and Films
Clemson University, Clemson, SC (lead institution) in partnership with MIT, and Clark Atlanta University

Center 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

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

Mid-America Earthquake Center
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (lead institution) in partnership with Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Memphis, MIT, St. Louis University, Texas A&M University, and Washington University

Center 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

Center for Power Electronics Systems
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, VA (lead institution) in partnership with North Carolina A&T State University, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and University of Wisconsin at Madison

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