Research Centers & Laboratories

Research centers have been established to address special interdisciplinary needs in nationally important technological areas. Most of the centers were initiated with federal funds, but many also have strong affiliations with industry.

These centers and laboratories share the common goals of providing superior research capabilities in the fundamental engineering sciences in collaboration with industrial and governmental laboratories. They support undergraduate and graduate student education and enhance rapid technology transfer from the University to industry.

Multidisciplinary Centers

• Advanced Transportation Research and Engineering Laboratory (ATREL)
• Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology*
  
• Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL)
• Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory (MRL)
• Information Trust Institute
• Institute for Genomic Biology*
• Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory (MNTL)
• National Center for Supercomputing Applications*

Major Research Centers

• Advanced Digital Sciences Center (ADSC)
• Center for Nanoscale Chemical-Electrical-Mechanical Manufacturing Systems (NanoCEMMS)
• Center for the Physics of Living Cells
• Center of Advanced Materials for Purification of Water with Systems (Water CAMPWS)
• Computational Science and Engineering
• Illinois Center for Transportation (ICT)
• Illinois-Intel Parallelism Center (I2PC)
• Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for Power (TCIPG)

Research Centers and Laboratories

• Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Center
• Assured Cloud Computing Center
• Center for Agricultural, Biomedical, and Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology (CABPN)
• Center for Complex Systems Research
• Center for Microanalysis of Materials
• Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST)
• Center for Plasma-Material Interactions
• Center of Excellence for Airport Technology
  
• Center for Computational Electromagnetics and Electromagnetics Laboratory
• Decision and Control Laboratory
• Grainger Center for Electric Machinery and Electromechanics
• Illinois Center for Cryptography and Information Protection
• Institute for Condensed Matter Theory
• Laboratory for Optical Physics and Engineering
• Parallel Computing Institute
• Power Systems Engineering Research Center
• Remote Sensing and Space Sciences
• Technology Entrepreneur Center
• Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group, an NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioiformatics

Education and Research Centers

• Center on Emergent Behavior of Integrated Cellular Systems (NSF)
• Cellular and Molecular Mechanics and Bionanotechnology IGERT (NSF)
• International Institute for Carbon Neutral Energy Research (I²CNER),
  a partnership between Kyushu University and the University of Illinois
• Midwest Center for Cancer Nanotechnology (NIH)
• National Center for Professional and Research Ethics (NSF)
• NeuroEngineering IGERT @ Illinois (NSF)

Applied Research Centers

• Applied Research Institute
• Prairie Research Institute*

Industrial Affiliate Programs

• Power Affiliates Program

        * Administered by other units on campus