Interdisciplinary Research Themes
At Engineering at Illinois, we place great pride in our interdisciplinary work ethic. Research centers and labs were created to promote this work and drive innovation and ideas in nationally important technological areas.
These incubators share the common goals of providing superior research capabilities in the fundamental engineering sciences in collaboration with industrial and governmental laboratories. They also support undergraduate and graduate student education and enhance rapid technology transfer from the University to industry. Most of the centers were initiated with federal funds, but many also have strong affiliations with industry.
Driving Change from Illinois
The Visioning Future Excellence initiative here at Illinois speaks to our commitment to drive change for some of the world's most pressing issues. In Engineering, we play a major role in creating and implementing this change. Our interdisciplinary centers are organized within the themes we are focusing on: Information and Technology, Health and Wellness, Energy and Environment, Industrial and Applied Research, and Education.
Multidisciplinary Centers
- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology*
- Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology*
- Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology
- Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL)
- Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory (MRL)
- Information Trust Institute
- Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory (MNTL)
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications*
- Technology Entrepreneur Center
Information and Technology
- Advanced Digital Sciences Center (ADSC)
- Autonomous Materials Science Lab
- Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Center
- Assured Cloud Computing Center
- Center for Computational Electromagnetics and Electromagnetics Laboratory
- Center of Excellence for Airport Technology
- Center for Nanoscale Chemical-Electrical-Mechanical Manufacturing Systems (NanoCEMMS)
- Computational Science and Engineering
- Decision and Control Laboratory
- Grainger Center for Electric Machinery and Electromechanics
- Illinois Center for Transportation (ICT)
- Institute for Condensed Matter Theory
- Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (Led by Argonne National Laboartory)
- Laboratory for Optical Physics and Engineering
- Parallel Computing Institute
- SONIC
Health and Wellness
- Center for the Physics of Living Cells
- Center for Agricultural, Biomedical, and Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology (CABPN)
- Center on Emergent Behavior of Integrated Cellular Systems (NSF)
- Center for Microanalysis of Materials
- Cellular and Molecular Mechanics and Bionanotechnology IGERT (NSF)
- Health Care Engineering Systems Center
- NeuroEngineering IGERT @ Illinois (NSF)
- Midwest Center for Cancer Nanotechnology (NIH)
- Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group, an NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioiformatics
Energy and Environment
- Center for Plasma-Material Interactions
- International Institute for Carbon Neutral Energy Research (I2CNER),
a partnership between Kyushu University and the University of Illinois - Power Affiliates Program
- Power Systems Engineering Research Center
- Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for the Power Grid (TCIPG)
Industrial and Applied Research
Education
* Administered by other units on campus