Research Centers, Laboratories & Affiliates Program

Research

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

Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology - Pierre Wiltzius, Director
Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL) - Ravi K. Iyer, Director
Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) - Jennifer Lewis, Director
Information Trust Institute - William H. Sanders, Director
Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory (MNTL) - Rashid Bashir, Director
National Center for Supercomputing Applications - Thom H. Dunning, Director

Major Research Centers

Advanced Transportation Research and Engineering Laboratory (ATREL) - Imad Al-Qadi, Director
Center for Nanoscale Chemical-Electrical-Mechanical Manufacturing Systems (NanoCEMMS) - Placid Ferreira, Director
Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets (CSAR) - Michael T. Heath, Director
Center of Advanced Materials for Purification of Water with Systems (Water CAMPWS) - Mark Shannon, Director
Mid-America Earthquake Center - Amr Elnashai, Director
Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for Power (TCIP) - William H. Sanders, Director
Universal Parallel Computing Research Center - Marc Snir and Wen-mei Hwu, co-directors

Research Centers and Laboratories

Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Center - Predrag S. Hrnjak and Anthony M. Jacobi, Co-Directors
Boeing Trusted Software Center - Bruce Vojak and William H. Sanders, Directors
Center for Advanced Research in Information Security - Roy H. Campbell, Director
Center for Autonomous Engineering Systems and Robotics (CAESAR) - Mark Spong, Director
Center for Cellular Mechanics - Taher Saif, Director
Center for Cement Composite Materials - Leslie Struble, Director
Center for Complex Systems Research - Alfred W. Hubler, Director
Center for Information Assurance Education - Roy H. Campbell, Director
Center for Information Forensics - Pierre Moulin, Director
Center for Microanalysis of Materials - Ivan Petrov, Director
Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) - Ilesanmi Adesida, Director
Center for Plasma-Material Interactions - David Ruzic, Director
Center for Process Simulation and Design - Robert B. Haber, Director
Center of Excellence for Airport Technology - David Lange, Director
Computational Electromagnetics and Electromagnetics Laboratory, Center for - Jian-Ming Jin, Director
Decision and Control Laboratory - Mark Spong, Director
Grainger Center for Electric Machinery and Electromechanics - Philip T. Krein, Director
Hyper-Uniform Nanophotonic Technology Center (HUNT) - K. Y. Norman Cheng, Director
Illinois Center for Cryptography and Information Protection - Richard E. Blahut, Director
Illinois Center for Integrated Microsystems - Naresh R. Shanbhag, Director
Illinois Center for Transportation (ICT) - Imad Al-Qadi, Director
Image Laboratory: Multimedia Signal Processing, Analysis, and Visualization - Thomas S. Huang, Director
Impact Center for Advancement of MEMS/NEMS VLSI - Andreas Cangellaris, Linda Katehi, and Edgar Martinez, Co-Directors
Laboratory for Optical Physics and Engineering - J. Gary Eden, Director
Machine Tool Systems Research, Center for - Shiv Kapoor, Director
Manufacturing Research Center - Shiv Kapoor, Director
Materials Computation Center - Duane Johnson, Director
Midwest Structural Sciences Center (MSSC) - William Dick, Executive Director
Motorola Center for Communications - Ravi K. Iyer, Director
Power Systems Engineering Research Center - Peter W. Sauer, Director
Reliable and High-Performance Computing, Center for - Ravi K. Iyer and Janak H. Patel, Co-Directors
Remote Sensing and Space Sciences - Erhan Kudeki and Gary Swenson, Co-Directors
Silicon Quantum Computers, Center for - John R. Tucker, Director
Technology Entrepreneur Center - Andrew Singer, Director
Theoretical Astrophysics, Center for - Frederick K. Lamb, Director
Trusted ILLIAC Center - Ravi K. Iyer, Director

Affiliated Research Organizations

Environmental Council - J.B. Braden, Interim Director

Industrial Affiliate Programs

Continuous Casting Consortium - Brian G. Thomas, Director
Fracture Control Program - Huseyin Sehitoglu, Director
Power Affiliates Program - Peter W. Sauer, Director