Collaboration Sparks Creativity
MechSE is home to two major National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded research centers.
- The Center of Advanced Materials for Purification of Water with Systems (the WaterCAMPWS) combines the forces of nine universities and several government agencies to develop new materials and systems to purify water safely and economically.
- The Center for Nanoscale Chemical-Electrical-Mechanical Manufacturing Systems (Nano-CEMMS) unites more than 35 faculty members from seven departments with researchers at three universities to develop realistic, robust and cost-effective ways to make nanostructures from simple materials.
Other Department Centers
The Department also houses five other centers and more than three dozen laboratories that include:
- Center for Cellular Mechanics
- The Center for Advanced Automotive Bio-fuel Combustion Engines
- Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Center
- Fracture Control Program
- Continuous Casting Consortium
- Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power
- Midwest Structural Sciences Center
At the College of Engineering
- Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL)
- Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology
- Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory
- Computational Science and Engineering
