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Advanced Materials Testing and Evaluation Laboratory and Evaluation Laboratory
Peter Kurath, Director
p-kurath@uiuc.edu
204 Talbot Laboratory, 104 South Wright Street, MC-262, Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-3751

The Advanced Materials Testing and Evaluation Laboratory (AMTEL) is a state-of-the-art facility for mechanical testing of coupon specimens to determine baseline engineering properties and more sophisticated biaxial testing. Equipment to test components and smaller structures has also been developed. AMTEL is supported by user fees from industrial and research contracts and supplemented by funds from the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering.


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Advanced Transportation Research and Engineering Laboratory (ATREL)
Barry J. Dempsey, Director
bjdemps@uiuc.edu
1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
217-893-0004 • http://cee.ce.uiuc.edu/atrel/

The Advanced Transportation Research and Engineering Laboratory is a comprehensive transportation research, educational, and testing laboratory. ATREL has approximately 60,000 square feet of laboratory, classroom, and office space. The laboratory facilities provide for research studies in airport and highway pavements and materials, transportation systems, and railroad facilities. Transportation programs at ATREL range from those in the basic research areas to full-scale testing and evaluation. The full-scale testing facilities can evaluate airport and highway pavements as well as railroad track systems. ATREL is served by an outstanding research and teaching faculty and an excellent support staff. It provides both undergraduate and graduate students with the opportunity to obtain the very best transportation research and engineering education offered in any University program.

ATREL has three laboratories and high bays, which provide considerable space for large-scale testing and research. Facilities are available for handling and processing the large quantities of material needed in the test pavements, including a mixer for blending concrete and stabilized paving materials, a small hot-mix plant, compaction tools, and special equipment for pulverizing soils and adjusting water contents. A Sprung Structure has been built on the ATREL property to house the Advanced Transportation Loading System (ATLaS). In addition, the structure will protect the pavement section being tested from the elements and minimize the effects of daily environmental (temperature and moisture) changes. The Traffic Operations Laboratory at ATREL was formed to train IDOT employees and contractors in the integration and working relationship of the railroad and highway signal systems.

ATREL conducts research for the Illinois Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Federal Aviation Administration, American Association of Railroads, National Cooperative Highway Research Program, Illinois Transportation Research Center, and other governmental and private agencies.

Faculty members associated with ATREL include:

Ernest J. Barenberg
Christopher Barkan
Rahim F. Benekohal
William G. Buttlar
Samuel H. Carpenter
Peter S. Chen
Moreland Herrin
Jeffrey R. Roesler
Marshall R. Thompson
Erol Tutumluer
S. Travis Waller
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Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Center
Predrag S. Hrnjak and Anthony M. Jacobi, Co-Directors
acrc@uiuc.edu
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 1206 West Green Street, MC-244, Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-3115 • http://acrc.me.uiuc.edu

The Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Center (ACRC), established by the National Science Foundation in 1988, conducts industry-university cooperative research on energy-efficient, environmentally sound technologies for human comfort, environment control, food preservation and transportation, and other applications. The ACRC provides a forum for industry and university researchers to coordinate research with long-term value. Graduate students and faculty members from across the College of Engineering pursue advanced study in acoustics, dynamics, control systems, design, materials, and the thermal sciences. The ACRC is an active collaboration between approximately 25 companies in industry and the university.


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Anderson Laboratory for Global Education in Engineering
Timothy N. Trick, Director
trick@ece.uiuc.edu
402 Engineering Hall, 1308 West Green Street, MC-266, Urbana, IL 61801
217-265-8430 • http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/OCEE/anderlab

The Lois and Harlan Anderson Laboratory for Global Education in Engineering was established in May 1998 with a generous gift from university alumnus Harlan E. Anderson and his wife, Lois K. Anderson. The mission of the Anderson laboratory is to support engineering faculty in the development of interactive credit and noncredit course modules for delivery over the Internet, to deliver these course modules through the Office of Continuing Engineering Education to a diverse group of clients worldwide, and to conduct research on the effective use of multimedia technologies for the creation of enhanced learning environments in the field of engineering. The targeted markets are: continuing education or professional enrichment in the corporate setting, individual adult distance learners, on-campus students to supplement class work, junior and community colleges to supplement their curriculum, high schools as advanced placement courses or enrichment programs, and colleges and universities worldwide.


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Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Pierre Wiltzius, Director
beckman-institute@uiuc.edu
405 North Mathews Avenue, MC-251, Urbana, IL 61801
217-244-1176 • http://www.beckman.uiuc.edu

The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is the largest and most ambitious university-based multidisciplinary research facility in the United States. It was founded on the premise that reducing the barriers between traditional scientific and technological disciplines can yield research advances that more conventional approaches cannot.

The building was made possible by a $40 million gift—at the time, the largest ever presented to a public university—from UIUC alumnus Arnold O. Beckman, founder of Beckman Instruments, Inc., and his wife, Mabel M. Beckman. This gift was supplemented by $10 million from the state of Illinois, which also provides the ongoing operating support for the facility. The research programs in the building are supported mainly by external funding from the federal government and from corporations and foundations.

Research performed at the Beckman Institute focuses on three broadly defined main research themes: biological intelligence, human-computer intelligent interaction, and molecular and electronic nanostructures.

The general goal of the Biological Intelligence main research theme is to develop understanding of intelligent systems by studying the diverse ways in which neurally-based systems become capable of intelligent behavior and to use this knowledge, for example, to implement such processes in the design of intelligent devices. Within this research theme, programs extend from biochemical, molecular, and cellular level studies of how neurons work, through integrative and computational neuroscience, to cognitive science, which seeks to understand how humans process sensory information and represent knowledge.

The general goal of the Human-Computer Intelligent Interaction main research theme is to improve the ways a human operator interacts with a computer by studying not only the input-output techniques but also the human factors. Within this research theme, programs range from artificial intelligence, robotics, computer vision, cognitive science, human perception, and performance to virtual reality environment experiments carried out in collaboration with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.

The general goal of the Molecular and Electronic Nanostructures main research theme is to develop a fundamental understanding of chemical and physical processes in molecular nanostructures, mesoscopic semiconductor-based systems, and macromolecular assemblies, with emphasis on future electronic or optoelectronic applications. Within this research theme, programs range from computational electronics, scanning tunneling microscopy, including lithography and fabrication of semiconductor nanostructures, and photonics, to efforts to synthesize and characterize new materials including self-organized syntheses of inorganic, organic, and biochemical systems.

Seventeen Beckman Institute research groups, composed of faculty and students from nearly three dozen University of Illinois departments as far-ranging as psychology, computer science, and biochemistry, are investigating these and other areas. The building, with its more than 200 offices, specialized, state-of-the-art laboratories and other facilities, and meeting areas for conferences, workshops, and casual interactions, provides an ideal environment for fostering collaborative research.


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Center for Advanced Research in Information Security
Roy H. Campbell, Director
roy@cs.uiuc.edu
Digital Computer Laboratory, 1304 West Springfield Avenue, MC-258, Urbana, IL 61801
217-265-5225 • http://www.caris.uiuc.edu

The Center for Advanced Research in Information Security (CARIS), a collaborative partnership between the U of I and Argus, allows academic, government, and industrial institutions to team together. Its mission includes promoting and conducting research and development, promoting quality multidisciplinary education, increasing university and community awareness, and influencing appropriate and effective public policy in the areas of infrastructure and information system security.

To achieve these goals, CARIS is aggressively pursuing state and federal funding opportunities. Proposed research projects to date include the development and marketing of products that implement domain-based access controls that defend systems against attacks and halt the spread of viruses and worms. An additional project is targeted at the construction and deployment of a security infrastructure for integrated information security.

Other CARIS research activities include technologies related to computer system security, especially those associated with the benefits of operating system security; modeling of security products and features associated with that technology, especially as it relates to the application of those models to existing evaluation criteria; researching the business models associated with the utilization of security products and the development of paradigms that demonstrate the most effective use of the technology; researching, documenting, and evaluating legal, educational, medical, and other issues and solutions associated with standard industry best practices as related to security tools, products, and techniques; researching and developing effective solutions related to securing wireless communications technologies; and researching and developing products related to securing PKI and "Smart Card" technology.

The University of Illinois is a National Security Agency Center of Academic Excellence for Information Assurance Education.


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Center for Analysis, Assessment, and Mitigation of Regional Impacts from Climate Change
D. Wuebbles, K. Donaghy, E. E. Herricks, J. W. Eheart
University of Illinois Critical Research Initiative


A Center for Analysis, Assessment, and Mitigation of Regional Impacts of Climate Change has been established to provide a center of excellence that will effectively incorporate the wide array of disciplines needed to assess local and regional impact, while at the same time enhancing the core of expertise in climate-related studies at the University of Illinois. This project will bring together expertise in the biological, engineering, physical, and social sciences to address these issues. It involves faculty in at least four colleges at the university (Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences; Fine and Applied Arts; Engineering; and Liberal Arts and Sciences) as well as scientists at the State Surveys.


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Center for Bio-Optoelectronic Sensor Systems
K. Y. Norman Cheng, Director
k-cheng@uiuc.edu
150 Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, 208 North Wright Street, MC-249, Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-6642 • http://www.micro.uiuc.edu/boss/

The Center for Bio-Optoelectronic Sensor Systems (BOSS) is part of the DARPA university center program. The goal of the center is the development of integrated optoelectronic technologies, including materials, devices, integrated interferometers, optical microelectromechanical system (MEMS) spectrometers, and heterogeneous integration that are critical to the realization of integrated and reconfigurable biological and biochemical sensor systems. Microspectrometer and interferometer-waveguide based optoelectronic biosensor systems will be developed to improve the size, cost, sensitivity, and signature resolution of the fieldable sensors for detecting biological and chemical entities in the environment in real-time through on-chip optical measurements. The center will utilize compound semiconductor optoelectronic systems integrated with MEMS fabrication techniques, molecular biology methods, and information fusion algorithms to attain integrable and re-configurable optoelectronic biosensor chips.


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Center for Cement Composite Materials
Leslie Struble
lstruble@uiuc.edu
2129 Newmark Laboratory, 205 North Mathews Avenue, MC-250, Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-2544 • http://www.civil.nwu.edu/ACBM/main.html

The Center for Cement Composite Materials (CCCM) is an interdisciplinary research center that develops knowledge to solve technical problems relating to portland cement and cement-based materials. The center identifies technical problems in the production and use of these materials, designs and carries out fundamental, science-based research to provide the knowledge required to solve these problems, and disseminates results of this research, both directly to center members and more broadly through the open scientific literature, education, and development of new standards. The center has research and analytical facilities available to university faculty and to industry. The center is closely affiliated with the Center for Advanced Cement Based Materials (ACBM), which is headquartered at Northwestern University www.ACBM.northwestern.edu. ACBM was established in 1989 as an National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center, and since 2000 it has been a collaborative industrial research program with approximately 25 companies participating.


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Center for Complex Systems Research
Alfred W. Hubler, Director
a-hbuler@uiuc.edu
4-129 Engineering Sciences Building, 1110 West Springfield Avenue, MC-704, Urbana, IL 61801
217-244-5892 • http://www.ccsr.uiuc.edu

The Center for Complex Systems Research (CCSR) is an interdisciplinary group of faculty members and graduate students administered through the Department of Physics. This group investigates a variety of complex dynamic processes occurring in biology, physics, chemistry, astronomy, and engineering. It considers not only specific dynamic problems but also the generic aspects of adaptive dynamic modeling and control that can be applied to any of the natural sciences or engineering. Major funding for the Center is provided by a grant from the Office of Naval Research.


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Center for Computational Electromagnetics (CCEM)
Weng C. Chew, Director
chew@sunchew.ee.uiuc.edu
378b Everitt Laboratory, 1406 West Green Street, MC-702, Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-7309 • http://www.ccem.uiuc.edu/

The Center for Computational Electromagnetics and the Electromagnetics Laboratory perform leading edge research in the area of electromagnetic technology. The center performs research in fast algorithms for electromagnetic scattering and interaction, and scattering problems of unprecedented sizes have been solved at the Center. In addition, research is conducted on a wide variety of topics spanning antenna arrays, inverse scattering, high-speed digital circuits, electro-optics, remote and geophysical sensing, genetic algorithms, and bioengineering.

Antenna research in the laboratory has a long, distinguished history with many contributions of major importance. Frequency-independent (also called log-periodic) antennas were invented here. These antennas can be found in practically every radio communication system, including the first space probe that landed on Venus and the U.S. vehicles that landed on the moon. This invention is considered by many to be the foremost contribution in the history of antennas. In addition, the corrugated horn and waveguide were developed here, and they have become the standard feeds for large reflector antennas. In terms of analysis methods, important contributions are the formulation of a uniform geometrical theory of diffraction, differential forms, theory related to antenna arrays, reflectors and lenses, and microstrip antennas. Recent contributions are development and implementation of new efficient computational algorithms and analysis techniques.

The center and the laboratory have been funded by the MURI program from the US Air Force, various DARPA programs, and individual and joint grants from NSF, ONR, DOE, ARO, Semiconductor Research Corporation, and various industrial organizations.


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Center for Machine Tool Systems Research
Shiv G. Kapoor, Director
s-kapoor@uiuc.edu
140 Mechanical Engineering Building, 1206 West Green Street, MC-244, Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-3432 • http://mtamri.me.uiuc.edu/cmtsr.home

The Center for Machine Tool Systems Research (CMSTR) is an industry-driven center of excellence in manufacturing research to foster collaborative research initiatives between the university and industry represented by both large and small companies. The center currently has two focus thrusts: multichip module microelectronics packaging and machine tool systems. The machine tool systems thrust is an NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center. CMSTR builds upon the strengths of the University of Illinois in areas of manufacturing research and education. Particular areas of attention include electronic packaging, materials processing, agile/flexible machining and machine tool systems; concurrent engineering as it applies to better understanding and utilizing machining process capability upstream during product engineering; and machining production systems and analysis.

Through industrial memberships and participation, the center focuses its attention on leveraging the investments of the industrial memberships as well as its own resources on both the Chicago and Urbana-Champaign campuses to improve manufacturing competitiveness in the world economy. The center conducts collaborative research projects with its member companies, educates students in the problems and issues of manufacturing, and provides a broader access for its members to the laboratories and programs of the university. Current company memberships provide an annual funding for the center in excess of $450,000. The center is unique in that it has both company-designated and center-designated projects. A member company can designate that one-half of the funds it contributes be applied to research of a specific interest to that company. The results of the research from these company-designated projects are available on an exclusive basis to the company. The remaining funds from each company are employed collectively to support center-designated projects, the results of which are shared by all of the participating companies.


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Center for Microanalysis of Materials
Ivan Petrov, Director
petrov@uiuc.edu
262 Materials Research Laboratory, 104 South Goodwin Avenue, MC-230, Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-8396 • http://www.mrl.uiuc.edu/~cmm/

The Center for Microanalysis of Materials (CMM) at the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory is a DOE National User Center that provides advanced instrumentation for the characterization of a wide range of advanced materials over the full range of scales from the atomic to the macroscopic. The CMM is an integrated facility containing the full array of modern nanostructural and nanochemical analysis techniques including electron microscopy (SEM, TEM, STEMs, high-pressure environmental cell TEM, high-temperature LEEM, focused ion beam microscopy, scanning probe microscopy, variable-temperature STM), surface microanalysis (SIMS, AES, XPS, imaging XPS, electrochemical SPS), x-ray scattering in all modes, and ion-beam spectroscopies (RBS, channeling and NRA). The CMM places emphasis on collaborative research and teaching. Approximately 30 companies use the center.


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Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing
Ravi K. Iyer and Janak H. Patel, Co-Directors
255 Coordinated Science Laboratory, 1308 West Main Street, MC-228, Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-2510 (Iyer); 217-333-6201 (Patel)

The Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing focuses on integrating research in the areas of reliable computing, high-performance architectures, fault tolerance and testing, distributed and network computing, optical and wireless networking measurements, and analysis of such systems for reliability and performance. Research funding for the center comes from both industry and government. The center includes 9 full-time faculty members and more than 100 graduate research assistants.


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Center for Silicon Quantum Computers
John Tucker, Director
jrtucker@uiuc.edu
266 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 West Springfield Avenue, MC 233, Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-4810

The purpose of the Center for Silicon Quantum Computers is to explore a method for harnessing the computational potential inherent within the quantum behavior of atoms. The center, funded by a grant from DARPA, expects to hasten the advent of practical quantum computers by refining well-established techniques and processes used in the manufacture of today's silicon computer chips.


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Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets
Michael Heath, Director
heath@cs.uiuc.edu
2262 Digital Computing Laboratory, 1304 West Springfield Avenue, MC-258, Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-3247 • http://www.csar.uiuc.edu/

The technical goal of the Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets (CSAR) is the detailed, three-dimensional, integrated, whole-system simulation of solid propellant rockets. The center seeks to understand the performance of solid propellant rockets under normal and abnormal (accident) conditions. Meeting this daunting challenge requires a multidisciplinary team of engineers, physical scientists, and computer scientists to develop and implement the necessary mathematical models, algorithms, and software to build a virtual rocket. In addition, enormous computational capacity is required to perform the resulting simulated launch scenarios, frequently employing thousands of processors. CSAR is one of five university-based research centers funded by the U.S. Department of Energy as part of the National Nuclear Security Administration Advanced Simulation and Computing Program. The center includes 30 faculty members from eight departments, 35 graduate students, and 25 research scientists, programmers, and postdoctoral research associates.


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Center for Theoretical Astrophysics
Frederick Lamb, Director
fkl@uiuc.edu
405 Loomis Laboratory, 1110 West Green Street, MC-704, Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-6363 • http://www.physics.uiuc.edu/Research/CTA/

The Center for Theoretical Astrophysics works on outstanding problems in theoretical astrophysics, general relativity, and cosmology. The center's research is highly interdisciplinary, requiring knowledge of many different areas of physics and astronomy—high energy processes, radiation hydrodynamics, atomic physics, plasma physics, magnetofluid dynamics, general relativity, and condensed matter physics—to interpret data successfully and to model the astronomical objects and phenomena being studied. Members of the center, who work with collaborators worldwide, include faculty from the Departments of Physics and Astronomy and members of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.


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Center of Excellence for Airport Technology
Barry J. Dempsey, Director
bjdemps@uiuc.edu
Advanced Transportation Research and Engineering Laboratory, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
217-893-0004 • http://cee.ce.uiuc.edu/coeairpottech/

The Center of Excellence for Airport Technology draws resources from University of Illinois and Northwestern University to conduct basic, developmental, and applied research in airport technology. The Federal Aviation Administration is supporting research in pavement structural modeling, concrete fatigue studies, asphalt overlay design, base and subgrade material characterization, pavement response analysis, airport safety, and wildlife hazards. In addition, the center has developed a Summer Graduate Minority Internship Program with several historically Black colleges and universities. Research and testing are performed at the Advanced Transportation Research and Engineering Laboratory (ATREL) located in Rantoul, Illinois.


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Communications, Electromagnetics, Propagation, and Signal Processing Affiliates Program
Lila Rhoades
lila@crhc.uiuc.edu
251 Coordinated Science Laboratory, 1308 West Main Street, MC 228, Urbana, IL 61801
217-244-7171 • http://www.ceps.csl.uiuc.edu

This industrial affiliates program deals with a broad range of disciplines and technologies related to communications and information processing. Drawing faculty members from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Computer Science, and the Coordinated Science Laboratory, the technical program focuses on communications theory, network and transmission technologies, computational electromagnetics, and design of modern communication systems. Participating companies are invited to attend an annual workshop held on the university campus and have access to faculty and graduate students during visits at the company site or at the university. Member companies pay a fee per annum based on company sales of products related to communications systems.
Industrial Affiliates Program


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Computational Science and Engineering
Michael T. Heath
2262 Digital Computer Laboratory, 1304 West Springfield Avenue, MC-258, Urbana, IL 61801-2987
217-333-0654 • http://www.cse.uiuc.edu

Computational science and engineering (CSE) is inherently interdisciplinary, requiring expertise in advanced computing technology as well as in one or more applied disciplines. The purpose of the CSE program at the University of Illinois is to foster interdisciplinary, computationally oriented research among all fields of science and engineering, and to prepare students to work effectively in such an environment.

Students electing the CSE Option become proficient in computing technology, including numerical computation and the practical use of advanced computer architectures, as well as in one or more applied disciplines. Such proficiency is gained, in part, through courses that are specially designed to reduce the usual barriers to interdisciplinary work. Thesis research by CSE students is expected to be computationally oriented and actively advised by faculty members from multiple departments.

In addition to its educational programs, CSE is also the administrative home of several interdisciplinary research centers, including the Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets funded by DOE and the Center for Process Simulation and Design funded by National Science Foundation. Websites for these centers are at http://www.csar.uiuc.edu and http://www.cse.uiuc.edu/cpsd, respectively.


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Continuous Casting Consortium
Brian G. Thomas, Director
bgthomas@uiuc.edu
362B Mechanical Engineering Building, 1206 West Green Street, MC-244, Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-6919 • http://bgtibm1.me.uiuc.edu/

The Continuous Casting Consortium (CCC) consists of several companies in the steel industry that have been supporting research on the continuous casting of steel at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since its formal creation in 1991. The Consortium encompasses a cooperative research effort to develop comprehensive mathematical models of continuous casting and related processes and to apply these models to improve fundamental understanding, to optimize the industrial processes, and to solve practical problems of interest to the participating members. In addition to funding, the members provide plant data and direction to the research. Funding is augmented by grants from the National Science Foundation.


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Decision and Control Laboratory
Mark Spong, Director
m-spong@uiuc.edu
159 Coordinated Science Laboratory, 1308 West Main Street, MC-228, Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-4281 • http://black.csl.uiuc.edu/~dcl/

Members of the Decision and Control Laboratory conduct research on a broad spectrum of topics covering systems, control, and decision-making, encompassing both theory and applications. The Decision and Control Laboratory is active in both the theory and application of feedback control. The group's research has applications in semiconductor manufacturing, robotics, mathematical economics, aircraft flight control under icing conditions, and information technology. In information technology, the research group is pioneering some exciting work in controlling the traffic of communication packets on high-speed networks in both wired and wireless worlds, even exploring the control of objects at distant locations over networks.
Industrial Affiliates Program


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Environmental Council
J. B. Braden, Interim Director
1101 West Peabody Drive, Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-4178 • http://environ.uiuc.edu

The Environmental Council strengthens environmental teaching, research, and outreach at the University of Illinois in partnership with departments and colleges. Through a variety of programs, the council provides visibility, advocacy, and collaborative infrastructure for environmental scholarship at the U of I and, through its website, introduces and catalogues the many environmental programs at the U of I. In cooperation with departments, the council helps to strengthen priority areas of environmental scholarship through selective faculty recruitment. Its educational activities include the Environmental Fellows Program (EFP), an interdisciplinary minor for highly motivated undergraduates, and the Special Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program for undergraduate research. At the graduate level, the council sponsors research clusters that unite faculty and graduate students from several departments. There are clusters for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Environmental and Resource Economics, Environmental Toxicology, and Human Dimensions of Environmental Systems.

The council oversees the Illinois Water Resources Center and the Research Office of the Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program. Both programs offer competitive research grants. The Midwest Technology Assistance Center, operated jointly with the Illinois State Water Survey, provides technical assistance on the drinking water challenges facing small communities. The senior staff of the council conduct sponsored research and outreach programs on environmental issues. The council convenes an annual campus environmental conference, biennial conferences on Illinois water resources, and other special conferences of importance to the region and the U of I.


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Fracture Control Program
Huseyin Sehitoglu, Director
huseyin@uiuc.edu
140 Mechanical Engineering Building, 1206 West Green Street, MC-244, Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-4112 • http://www.mie.uiuc.edu/content/asp/research/research_centers/fracture_control_program.asp

The Fracture Control Program, founded in 1971, is an education-research program focused on fatigue of materials. Through short courses, research reports, and advisory committee meetings, it addresses both basic and advanced topics including multiaxial fatigue, weld fatigue, and thermo-mechanical fatigue. Industrial sponsors of the program are invited to participate in the annual advisory committee meetings, attend annual two-day short courses in fatigue and fracture, and have access to FCP research reports.
Industrial Affiliates Program


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Grainger Center for Electric Machinery and Electromechanics
Philip Krein, Director
krein@ece.uiuc.edu
341 Everitt Laboratory, 1406 West Green Street, MC 702, Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-4732 • http://machines.ece.uiuc.edu/

The Grainger Center for Electric Machinery and Electromechanics (CEME) is dedicated to enhancing education, technology, understanding, and research activities on the fundamental topic of electric machinery. Major research thrusts include loss reduction across the whole range of electric machines, high-reliability energy supply designs for buildings and public facilities, and research to develop new semiconductor materials for power applications and machines. The center is funded by a gift from The Grainger Foundation Inc.


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Grainger Engineering Library Information Center
William H. Mischo, Director
1301 West Springfield Avenue, MC-294, Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-3576, fax: 217-244-7764, TDD: 217-244-4580 • http://www.library.uiuc.edu/grainger

The Grainger Engineering Library Information Center is a five-floor, 92,000 square-foot facility. The building can seat 1,200 patrons, can accommodate 350,000 volumes of library materials, and has the capability of supporting 1,000 networked computer connections. The Grainger Library provides a focal point for the College of Engineering faculty, students, and staff by making available group study rooms, individual study carrels, faculty and scholar studies, and conference and seminar rooms. It also provides state-of-the-art computing and information technologies to assist students in research and instruction and to provide patrons access to information resources both held locally and available on the Internet.

The Grainger Library contains a two-story Main Reading Gallery, which can seat 1,254 people, and two smaller, two-story pavilion reading galleries, which can each accommodate approximately 60 people. The galleries are also used for special events and dinners. In addition, the facility contains three large seminar rooms (seating 30 to 50 people) and four smaller conference rooms.

Grainger computing facilities include: two computer and multi-media labs with 80 high-end engineering workstations, which are used for CAD, numerical analysis and modeling, and software development; a digital imaging lab housing the Digital Library Initiative Projects, which provides access to 62,000 full-text journal articles; an information retrieval laboratory for visitors and researchers utilizing Grainger and campus resources; and two instructional services labs, which serve as high-tech classrooms for information literacy instruction and presentations. In addition, public-use terminals have been placed throughout the building that provide access to a statewide online catalog, Compendex, INSPEC, Aerospace Database, National Technical Information Service (NTIS), 1,000 full-text journals, and a wealth of local information resources.

The public terminals utilize an intelligent web-based user interface and serve as the primary access mechanism for the statewide online catalog containing approximately 10 million holdings; a variety of periodical index databases, which provide access to 10 million articles, journals, magazine, and conference proceedings; Grainger journal information on received issues and linked tables of holdings; Engineering Documents Center publications; FAQs; and hard-to-find references. A "Help Getting Started" module is available to guide library users to information resources.

The Grainger Library contains 260,000 volumes of journals, books, reports, standards, theses, conference proceedings, and other materials. Holdings include 1,100 ongoing journal subscriptions and a large number of continually received conference and series publications.

The Grainger Library has become a popular place for students and faculty members to meet and interact. The workstation computing and information retrieval capabilities of Grainger are heavily utilized. More than 1.5 million people used the building during 2000. The Grainger Engineering Library Information Center is dedicated to providing tools to assist people in their pursuit of knowledge and to serve as a showcase for the applications of information technologies. The Grainger Library home page (http://www.library.uiuc.edu/grainger) provides access to the Grainger resources.

The Grainger Engineering Library Information Center opened to the public in March 1994. A $22 million multifunctional facility, Grainger Library was primarily funded by a gift of $18.7 million from the Grainger Foundation Inc., which is headquartered in Skokie, Illinois. An additional $11 million of State and gift funds was expended on the project for the rerouting of steam, electrical, and telecommunications lines, the demolition of several buildings, and the construction of the new Engineering Quad (which had been under consideration since at least 1926). The Grainger Library is named after William Wallace Grainger, a 1919 graduate of the University of Illinois College of Engineering. A bas-relief of William Wallace Grainger is in the first floor lobby of the Grainger Library.


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High-Performance Computing Laboratories
Robert D. Skeel, and David A. Padua, Co-Chairs
padua@a.cs.uiuc.edu
Digital Computer Laboratory, 1304 West Springfield Avenue, MC-258, Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-2727, 217-333-4223 • http://hpc.cs.uiuc.edu

This is an umbrella group of laboratories in the Department of Computer Science involving more than a dozen faculty members who are collaborating on a variety of funded research projects in high-performance computing. Current efforts are in the areas of parallel computer architecture design, parallelizing compilers, concurrent programming languages, run-time software for parallel I/O and computation, and software and algorithms for applications such as rockets and molecular simulation. This work is facilitated by access to large-scale parallelism (a 768-processor Origin 2000, a 256-processor PC cluster, the 1024-processor ASCI red) through affiliations with campus research centers, including National Center for Supercomputing Applications and Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets.


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Illinois Center for Cryptography and Information Protection
Richard Blahut, Director
head@ece.uiuc.edu
1406 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-2300 • http://www.iccip.csl.uiuc.edu

The Illinois Center for Cryptography and Information Protection (ICCIP) is a multidisciplinary center, bringing together researchers and students in computer science, engineering, and mathematics to collaborate on projects involving information protection. The center focuses on research in public-key cryptography and digital watermarking. Specific projects have been funded through a university CRI grant, NSF CRCD, ITR, and VIGRE grants, a UIUC-CNRS collaborative agreement, Microsoft Research Labs, and Motorola Labs.


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Illinois Center for Integrated Microsystems
Naresh R. Shanbhag, Director
shanghag@uiuc.edu
Coordinated Science Laboratory, 1308 West Main Street, MC-228, Urbana, IL 61801
217-244-0041 •

The Illinois Center for Integrated Microsystems (iCIMS) facilitates collaborative research in the design of integrated microsystems, including integrated circuits, devices, systems, and structures. Industry participates in center activities by funding research on specific topics of interest or by joining the center as an industrial sponsor or industrial affiliate. Industrial sponsors get the benefit of working with center faculty, and center graduate students, who will execute research projects using center facilities. Industrial affiliates have direct access to center facilities to conduct a project in collaboration with a center faculty as well as access to all seminars in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and the Beckman Institute.


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Illinois Computer Affiliates Program
Lila Rhoades
lila@crhc.uiuc.edu
251 Coordinated Science Laboratory, 1308 West Main Street, MC-228, Urbana, IL 61801
217-244-7171 • http://www.crhc.uiuc.edu/ICAP/

The Illinois Computer Affiliates Program (ICAP) fosters interaction between industry, government, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Member organizations and the computer engineering faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) work together on projects of mutual interest. Member organizations are typically those whose strategic plans depend strongly upon computer systems and the implementation of computing research and development. Members provide grants and contracts to professors in ECE in the general area of computing. ICAP areas of research include design automation and VLSI testing, distributed systems and networks, mobile computing, computation theory, computer architecture and systems, reliable computing, and computer vision and robotic systems. ICAP adopts a theme area each year, e.g. networking. An annual workshop focusing on the theme is held, and member companies are invited. The workshop's primary goals are to educate participants about the cutting-edge research being conducted at Illinois, to promote synergy between industrial and academic research, and to provide an informational environment for industrial visitors to interact with graduating MS and PhD students.


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Illinois State Geological Survey
W. W. Shilts, Chief
121 Natural Resources Building, 615 East Peabody Drive, Champaign, IL 61820
217-333-4747 • http//www.isgs.uiuc.edu/isgshome.html

The Illinois State Geological Survey (ISGS), a division of the state's Department of Natural Resources, is one of the largest of the 51 state and territorial geological surveys. Since 1905, when it was first organized by legislative mandate, the ISGS has been assisting citizens, industries, and government agencies by supplying the geological information they need to protect the environment and help the state's economy grow. The ISGS works closely with other offices and divisions of the Department of Natural Resources and with universities across the state to bring multidisciplinary research to bear on the problems and opportunities confronting the citizens if Illinois.

Activities of the ISGS fall into five major categories: mapping and modeling the geology of the glacial sediments and bedrock of the state in three dimensions; locating and characterizing groundwater aquifers to help develop new water supplies and protect them from contamination; locating the state's energy and industrial mineral deposits and characterizing their physical and chemical properties to help producers develop them in environmentally sensitive and efficient ways; locating the causes and assessing the risks of geological hazards such as earthquakes, mine subsidence, and chemical spills; and distributing geological information to the public in a wide range of forms. Following are a few examples of recent engineering-related research activities:

Mapping and Modeling
To speed up the process of mapping the state's geology in three dimensions, the ISGS has formed the Central Great Lakes State Geologic Mapping Coalition with the State Geological Surveys of Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan and the U.S. Geological Survey. Under the coalition framework, the five agencies are sharing both expert staff and equipment to complete a pilot geologic mapping project in the Antioch and Wadsworth Quadrangles in northern Lake County, Illinois. Geologists from the member state surveys and the federal survey are working together to test various mapping techniques, assess the results of geophysical methods for determining subsurface geology in complex glacial deposits, and discussing standard procedures to be followed in mapping the glacial deposits from land surface to bedrock in the four central Great Lakes States.

In cooperation with the Kentucky Geological Survey, economists at the ISGS recently completed a rigorous economic study of the economic benefits that have flowed from the availability of detailed geologic quadrangle maps covering that entire state. Based on responses to a questionnaire mailed to more than 200 professional users of Kentucky's geologic maps, the economists used mathematical relationships derived from the theory of public goods and drawn from the literature on the value of information to show that the geologic maps provided economic benefits to consultants and other professional users that exceeded the costs of producing the maps by at least 25 times.

Locating and Characterizing Groundwater Aquifers
Illinois-American Water Corporation, which draws millions of gallons of drinking water from the Mahomet Aquifer to distribute to users in Urbana-Champaign and surrounding communities, recently asked the ISGS to assist them in determining the cause of progressive reductions in the specific capacities of some of their wells. Tests performed on samples of the aquifer, the groundwater, and suspended solids in the water revealed that iron-oxidizing bacteria, calcite precipitated by de-gassing of carbon-dioxide from the water, and other mineral matter particles displaced and entrained by large-volume pumping are concentrating on the well screens and probably in the adjacent gravel pack surrounding the well annuli.

Through funding from a National Science Foundation grant received in cooperation with several academic departments at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a fully automated flow-through, compound-specific, isotope ratio mass spectrometer integrated with a gas chromatograph, elemental analyzer, and carbonate unit is now in use. The instrument's greater sensitivity, automated sample preparation and analysis, and broad analytical capabilities are opening new avenues for teaching and research, especially in groundwater geochemistry.

Locating and Characterizing Energy and Industrial Mineral Deposits
To enhance the marketability of Illinois' high-sulfur coal deposits and to meet the need for future mandates to reduce mercury emissions, ISGS and U of I engineers and graduate students are investigating activated carbon materials made from coal, corn stillage wastes, and other carbon materials as replacements for more expensive materials used in a variety of pollution-control and industrial process applications. Pilot-scale tests of the ability of some of these carbon materials to capture mercury from flue gases of coal-fired power plants were recently completed at Abbott Power plant. The ISGS also is seeking ways to increase the use of coal-combustion fly ash in making standard construction bricks. Bricks containing 50- to 70-weight percent fly ash mixed with standard clay have been successfully formed and fired and shown to be as strong or stronger than standard bricks.

Locating and Assessing the Risks of Geological Hazards
To assist the Illinois Department of Transportation with road construction projects, the ISGS completes preliminary environmental property assessments for proposed rights of way. The reports warn IDOT officials of any areas containing contaminated soils, wetlands, or other environmental or geological problems.

Distributing Geological Information
The ISGS continually adds new data files to its Geographic Information System, one of the largest and most comprehensive in the country. Many files are now available over the Internet through Illinois' Natural Resources Geospatial Data Clearinghouse, part of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure.


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Image Laboratory: Multimedia Signal Processing, Analysis, and Visualization
Thomas Huang, Director
huang@ifp.uiuc.edu
Beckman Institute, 405 North Mathews Avenue, MC-251, Urbana, IL 61801
217-244-1638 • http://www.beckman.uiuc.edu/research/hciihome.html

The Image Lab was established under two National Science Foundation Research Infrastructure Grants and carries out basic research in a wide spectrum of topics in multimedia (especially image/video and audio) signal processing, analysis, and visualization. Research activities include: image databases content and similarity based retrieval and the use of relevance feedback to adapt the system to the user; video databases (creation of table of contents and semantic index); multimodal human-computer interface (speech- and gesture-based interface in virtual environments using computer lip-reading to enhance audio speech recognition), combining eye tracking and speech in display control; image and video compression; computerized imaging (computer tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and synthetic aperture radar); and parallel algorithms and architectures for multimedia signal processing. More than 10 faculty members and 50 graduate and undergraduate students are affiliated with the laboratory.


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Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics
William Mantulin, Co-Director
mantulin@uiuc.edu
Theodore Hazlett, Co-Director
thazlett@staff.uiuc.edu
Loomis Laboratory, 1110 West Green Street, MC-704, Urbana, IL 61801
217-244-5620 • http://lfd.uiuc.edu

The Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics (LFD) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was established in 1986 as a national research resource in biomedical fluorescence spectroscopy, supported by the National Institutes of Health and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The aims of the center are two-fold: to provide a state-of-the-art laboratory for time-resolved fluorescence measurements with technical assistance to visiting scientist/users and to design, test, and implement advances in the technology, especially in hardware, automation software, and applications to the biomedical arts.


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Machine Tool Agile Manufacturing Research Institute
Richard DeVor, Director
r-devor@uiuc.edu
140 Mechanical Engineering Building, 1206 West Green Street, MC-244, Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-3543 • http://mtamri.me.uiuc.edu/

Machine Tool Advanced Manufacturing Research Institute (MTAMRI) is a virtual research institute that is a strategic alliance of industry, government, and higher education dedicated to the advancement of technologies related to the design, manufacturing, and utilization of machine tools. The institute's purpose is to bring together researchers at universities around the country to work on research projects to accelerate the refinement of existing technologies and the development of new technologies and to facilitate the movement of these efforts into industrial practice. MTAMRI serves to bridge and integrate research results coming from both private-sector sponsored research and other government-sponsored efforts such as the NSF/I/U CRC and CRC Programs, NIST ATP, DOE TEAM, and DOD Agile Manufacturing Programs. MTAMRI's mission is to enhance the effectiveness and competitiveness of the domestic machine tool manufacturers and users in both the commercial and defense sectors. MTAMRI draws together nine universities with more than 20 major U.S. corporations to advance technology in the machine-tool industry.


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Manufacturing Research Center
Shiv G. Kapoor, Director
s-kapoor@uiuc.edu
140 Mechanical Engineering Building, 1206 West Green Street, MC-244, Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-3432 • http://mtamri.mie.uiuc.edu/cmtsr.home.html

The Manufacturing Research Center focuses its attention on leveraging the investments of industrial memberships and its own resources to improve manufacturing competitiveness in the world economy. Particular areas of focus include materials processing, agile/flexible machining, and machine tool systems; concurrent engineering as it applies to better understanding and utilizing machining process capability upstream during product engineering; and machining production systems and analysis.

The center conducts collaborative research projects with its member companies, educates students in the problems and issues of manufacturing, and provides a broader access for its members to the laboratories and programs of the University of Illinois. A member company pays an annual fee and can designate one-half of the funds contributed be applied to research of specific interest to that company. The results of the research from company-designated projects are available on an exclusive basis to the company. The remaining funds from each member company are employed collectively to support center-designated projects. The results of these projects are shared by all member companies.


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Materials Computation Center
Duane Johnson, Director, and J. Kim, Coordinator
mcc@uiuc.edu
295 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 West Springfield Avenue, MC-233, Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-3324 • http://www.mcc.uiuc.edu

The Materials Computation Center (MCC) at the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory provides an intellectual and interactive environment for researchers focused on world-class, multidisciplinary education and research across traditional boundaries in computational materials science. The MCC involves 10 departments and programs and is actively supported by the College of Engineering and by the Fredrick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory. The MCC promotes networking of researchers and students locally and worldwide, sponsors summer schools, and facilitates creation of useful tools and algorithms for research and education. In addition, the MCC hosts a web-based, shared-resource Software Archive that contains research and education codes. All interested parties are invited to contribute. Research areas evolve but include computer science applications to and scalable, parallel modeling of multiscale problems, O(N) algorithms, complex systems, computational biophysics, and classical/quantum simulations. The MCC is supported by the National Science Foundation.


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Mid-America Earthquake Center
Daniel Abrams, Director
d-abrams@uiuc.edu
1245 Newmark Laboratory, 205 North Mathews Avenue, MC-250, Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-0565 • http://mae.ce.uiuc.edu

The Mid-America Earthquake (MAE) Center is a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center. The center's research concentrates on problems associated with the low-frequency, but high-consequence, seismic events that are possible in Mid-America. Research at the center is directed at increasing public safety and reducing economic losses from future earthquakes. End products of the center will be more effective strategies for further reducing loss of life and major physical devastation from future seismic shocks.

The MAE Center consists of a consortium of eight core institutions, with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as the lead institution. It is funded by the National Science Foundation and each core university as well as through joint collaborative projects with industry and other affiliations.


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Motorola Center for Communications
Ravishankar K. Iyer, Director
iyer@crhc.uiuc.edu
255 Coordinated Science Laboratory, 1308 West Main Street, MC-228, Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-2510 • http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/mcc/

The technical scope of the Motorola Center for Communications spans the full range of technologies related to communications. It reflects the tremendous depth and breadth of strength in relevant disciplines in the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at Motorola. A central focus of the program is the support of approximately 15 research projects conducted by Motorola-sponsored graduate research assistants with faculty advisors in the center and close contact with leading Motorola engineers. The current technical emphasis falls into the areas of wireless communication, multimedia (video, speech, and data) signal processing, Internet-driven technologies, communications networking, and mobile computing.


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National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Dan Reed, Director, and Danny Powell, Executive Director
152 Computing Applications Building, 605 East Springfield Avenue, MC-476, Champaign, IL 61820
217-244-0072 • http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), one of the five original centers in the National Science Foundation's Supercomputer Centers Program, opened its doors in January 1986. NCSA earned and maintains an international reputation in high-performance computing and networking and in developing innovative software applications. Over the years, NCSA has contributed significantly to the birth and growth of the worldwide cyberinfrastructure, first through NCSA Telnet and, in 1993, through NCSA Mosaic, the first easily available graphical Web browser.

Today the center continues to focus on serving the national research community in two major ways: by providing high-quality, reliable, and secure high-performance computing resources and by conducting cutting-edge research aimed at building and deploying the advanced computing and information infrastructure of the future. This infrastructure, or grid, will link researchers, businesses, governments, and individuals across the country and eventually, around the world. It will allow teams to collaborate in real time and bring computing tools, scientific instruments, high-resolution display systems, and the world's fastest computers to new audiences through high-speed networks.

In August 2001, NCSA—as part of a team of institutions that also includes the San Diego Supercomputer Center, Argonne National Laboratory, and the California Institute of Technology—was tapped by the National Science Foundation to build the TeraGrid, the most comprehensive infrastructure ever deployed for scientific research. TeraGrid resources will include facilities capable of managing and storing more than 450 terabytes of data, high-resolution visualization environments, and toolkits for grid computing. All of these components will be tightly integrated into an information infrastructure and connected by the fastest network ever deployed—16 times faster than today's fastest network.

Since 1997, NCSA has been the lead site for the National Computational Science Alliance, one of two partnerships of the NSF's Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure program. The alliance is a nationwide partnership of more than 50 academic, government, and business organizations working together to prototype an advanced computational infrastructure for the 21st century. The center has the largest production high-performance computing facility in the alliance, including two 1-teraflop Linux clusters, which will expand to more than 8 teraflops as the TeraGrid computers are installed during the next few years.

NCSA also works with government agencies, communities, and schools to discover how high-performance computing and communication can benefit them. Through the NCSA Private Sector Program, top researchers from Fortune 500 companies explore the newest hardware and software, virtual prototyping, visualization, networking, and data mining to help U.S. industries maintain a competitive edge in the global economy.

The National Science Foundation, the state of Illinois, the University of Illinois, industrial partners, and other federal agencies fund NCSA. For more information, see http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu.


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Nondestructive Evaluation Research Laboratory
Henrique Reis, Director
h-reis@uiuc.edu
117 Transportation Building, 104 South Mathews Avenue, MC-238, Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-1228 • http://www.ge.uiuc.edu/facilities/ndt.html

The Nondestructive Evaluation Research Laboratory serves the manufacturing and fabrication industries. Employing a very broad range of techniques, the lab addresses practical nondestructive testing and evaluation projects posed by industry.


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Power Affiliates Program
Peter Sauer, Director
sauer@ece.uiuc.edu
337 Everitt Laboratory, 1406 West Green Street, MC-702, Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-0394 • http://power.ece.uiuc.edu

The Power Affiliates Program consists of industrial members who provide funding and industrial interaction for the power and energy systems area in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The program currently has 11 industrial members and holds an annual review meeting every May. The objectives of the program are to: bring focus to the power and energy systems area; provide financial assistance to students studying electric power engineering; increase university-industrial interaction at all levels of education and research in electric power engineering.
Industrial Affiliates Program


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Power Systems Engineering Research Center
Peter Sauer, Site Director
sauer@ece.uiuc.edu
337 Everitt Laboratory, 1406 West Green Street, MC-702, Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-0394 • http://www.pserc.wisc.edu/

PSERC is a Multi-University National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center comprised of 13 universities, including the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. PSERC receives industrial funding from about 35 industrial members. The funds are used to perform research into the technical issues of electric power system restructuring. Each industrial member is represented on the Industrial Advisory Board, which meets twice per year to review activities and make decisions about project funding.


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Space Sciences & Remote Sensing Laboratories
Erhan Kudeki
erhan@ky.csl.uiuc.edu
Gary Swenson
swenson1@uiuc.edu
313 Coordinated Science Laboratory, 1308 West Main Street, MC-228, Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-9705

Faculty and students in these interdisciplinary research laboratories are engaged in a wide variety of studies of the earth's atmosphere and near-space environment. This work involves the design, construction, and operation of novel remote sensing instruments as well as the analysis of measurements conducted at major international facilities from the high Arctic to the South Pole. Much of the work focuses on environmental issues, including global atmospheric change. Radar, lidar, and satellite techniques are employed to probe the atmosphere from the surface to altitudes well into the thermosphere. Faculty members include Erhan Kudeki of the Aeronomy Laboratory; Chester Gardner, Gary Swenson, and George Papen of the Electro-Optic Systems Laboratory (http://conrad.ece.uiuc.edu/); and Stephen Franke of the Wave Propagation Laboratory. Funding for this work is provided by NSF, NASA, and DOD. Annual research expenditures exceed $750K.


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Technology Entrepreneur Center
Prof. Raymond L. Price, Ph.D.
William H. Severns Chair in Human Behavior
Department of General Engineering, 313 Ceramics, 105 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801
217-244-3124 • http//:www.ge.uiuc.edu/tec

Housed in the Department of General Engineering, the Technology Entrepreneur Center (TEC) was created in January 2000 as part of the University of Illinois' commitment to regional and statewide economic development, through the transfer of technology from the academic setting to the private sector

The mission of the Technology Entrepreneur Center is to help U of I faculty and student entrepreneurs in the development and growth of new businesses through education and a network of professional support. The Technology Entrepreneur Center now offers five courses in entrepreneurship and sponsors the V. Dale Cozad Business Plan Competition, which provides $20,000 in seed money for start-up companies. The Technology Entrepreneur Center is also assembling a substantial database of university alumni and friends willing to offer their expertise to aspiring entrepreneurs. Their assistance includes legal, financial, and managerial advice; angel and venture capital investments; and mentoring.

Affiliated Professors:

Prof. David Goldberg, Ph.D., Department of General Engineering
Prof. Jay Kesan, Ph.D., J.D., College of Law
Entrepreneurs-in-Residence:
Visiting Associate Professor Brian Lilly, Ph.D., President, SmartSolutions, Inc., Waterford, Wisc.
Visiting Assistant Professor Mark Laufenberg, Ph.D., President, PowerWorld, Urbana, Ill.
Laura L. Hirschfeld, J.D., Program Director for Network Coordination and Marketing
Brenda Tyler, Administrative Secretary
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