End of Year Data Report - Online View

Welcome to the U.S. National Science Foundation's Engineering Research Centers End of Year Data Report. These slides offer a comprehensive overview of the annual data collection across the ERC program, featuring aggregated insights from all active ERCs in various focus areas. The aim of this report is to highlight key metrics and achievements, providing a detailed summary of collective progress and impact. The slides share significant accomplishments and contributions from the past year, along with information on longitudinal trends across various areas of interest. Explore these insights to gain a clear understanding of advancements in research, innovation, and collaboration.

ERC End of Year Slide - 2025 ERC End of Year Report cover slide

ERC End of Year Data Report Title Slide

ERC End of Year Slide - 19 Active ERCs Referenced in Slides 4–8, listing all active ERC centers, lead universities, generation class, and award numbers

1 | 19 Active ERCs Referenced in Slides 4-8

ERC End of Year Slide - Annualized ERCs on Slides 4–8, listing the additional 7 ERCs included in annualized totals

2 | Annualized ERCs on Slides 4–8

ERC End of Year Slide - ERC Products of Innovation, FY 1985–2025, showing inventions disclosed, patents filed and awarded, licenses issued, spinoff companies, and spinoff employees

3 | ERC Products of Innovation, FY 1985–2025

ERC End of Year Slide - ERC Influence on Curriculum, FY 1985–2025, showing new degree programs, minors, certificates, courses, course modules, and textbooks based on ERC research

4 | ERC Influence on Curriculum, FY 1985–2025

ERC End of Year Slide - ERC Information Dissemination, FY 1985–2025

5 | ERC Information Dissemination, FY 1985–2025

ERC End of Year Slide - Curricular Impact of ERCs, FY 2007–2025, showing new and ongoing courses, workshops, short courses, webinars, and textbooks based on ERC research

6 | Curricular Impact of ERCs, FY 2007–2025

ERC End of Year Slide - ERC Student Degrees, FY 1985–2025, showing 322 degrees granted in FY 2025 and 16,347 total degrees since 1985, broken out by bachelor's, master's, and doctoral

7 | ERC Student Degrees, FY 1985–2025

ERC End of Year Slide - Degrees Granted to ERC Students vs. All U.S. Engineering Graduates, FY 2019–2025

8 | Degrees Granted to ERC Students vs. All U.S. Engineering Graduates, FY 2019–2025

ERC End of Year Slide - ERC Graduate Employment (19 Centers), FY 2025, showing employment by sector including academia, U.S. government, and industry

9 | ERC Graduate Employment (19 Centers), FY 2025

ERC End of Year Slide - ERC Research and Education Personnel by Underrepresented Group and Citizenship Status, FY 2025, showing counts and percentages for women, underrepresented racial minorities, Hispanics, and foreign personnel across faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates

10 | ERC Research and Education Personnel by Underrepresented Group and Citizenship…

ERC End of Year Slide - Participants Impacted by ERC Engineering Education Outreach Events, FY 2025, showing 72,688 total participants including 71,012 K–12 participants and 1,676 community college participants

11 | Participants Impacted by ERC Engineering Education Outreach Events, FY 2025

ERC End of Year Slide - Women in ERCs, FY 2020–2025, comparing percentage of women in ERC personnel to national engineering program averages across faculty, postdoctoral, doctorate, master's, and undergraduate levels

12 | Women in ERCs, FY 2020–2025

ERC End of Year Slide - Hispanics and Latinos in ERCs, FY 2020–2025, comparing percentage of Hispanic and Latino ERC personnel to national engineering program averages across faculty, postdoctoral, doctorate, master's, and undergraduate levels

13 | Hispanics and Latinos in ERCs, FY 2020–2025

ERC End of Year Slide - Underrepresented Racial Minorities in ERCs, FY 2020–2025, comparing percentage of underrepresented racial minority ERC personnel to national engineering program averages

14 | Underrepresented Racial Minorities in ERCs, FY 2020–2025

ERC End of Year Slide - Persons with Disabilities in ERCs, FY 2020–2025, comparing percentage of personnel with disabilities in ERCs to national engineering program averages

15 | Persons with Disabilities in ERCs, FY 2020–2025

ERC End of Year Slide - U.S. Citizens and Permanent Residents in ERCs, FY 2020–2025, comparing percentage of U.S. citizen and permanent resident ERC personnel to national engineering program averages

16 | U.S. Citizens and Permanent Residents in ERCs, FY 2020–2025

ERC End of Year Slide - Center Personnel Conducting ERC Research, FY 2025, showing 812 total personnel by category including REU students, undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, and faculty, with percentage foreign

17 | Center Personnel Conducting ERC Research, FY 2025

ERC End of Year Slide - Center Personnel Citizenship in ERCs, FY 2025

18 | Center Personnel Citizenship in ERCs, FY 2025

ERC End of Year Slide - Center Personnel Citizenship in ERCs, FY 2020–2025, showing trends across faculty, postdoctoral, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate personnel

19 | Center Personnel Citizenship in ERCs, FY 2020–2025

ERC End of Year Slide - ERC Industrial/Practitioner Members and Supporting Organizations, FY 2019–2025, showing counts by organization type including contributing organizations, funders, and industrial/practitioner members

20 | ERC Industrial/Practitioner Members and Supporting Organizations, FY 2019–2025

ERC End of Year Slide - ERC Industrial/Practitioner Members and Supporting Organizations, FY 2019–2025, chart view

21 | ERC Industrial/Practitioner Members and Supporting Organizations Chart, FY 2019…

ERC End of Year Slide - Industrial/Practitioner Member Support by Year, FY 2019–2025, showing membership fees, member-sponsored projects, member-associated projects, member in-kind, and total IP member support

22 | Industrial/Practitioner Member Support by Year, FY 2019–2025

ERC End of Year Slide - Industrial/Practitioner Member Support by Year, FY 2019–2025, chart view

23 | Industrial/Practitioner Member Support by Year Chart, FY 2019–2025

ERC End of Year Slide - Distribution of Industrial/Practitioner Members by Industry Size, FY 2021–2025, showing breakdown by small, medium, and large firms

24 | Distribution of Industrial/Practitioner Members by Industry Size, FY 2021–2025

ERC End of Year Slide - Total ERC New Cash Support, FY 2025 (19 ERCs), showing $255.1M total broken out by ERC awards, non-NSF government, other sources, other NSF, university, and industry

25 | Total ERC New Cash Support, FY 2025 (19 ERCs)

ERC End of Year Slide - Functional Budget of ERCs in the Aggregate, FY 2025, showing $106.1M total broken out by research, indirect cost, leadership/administration, education programs, and other categories

26 | Functional Budget of ERCs in the Aggregate, FY 2025

ERC End of Year Slide - Industrial/Practitioner New Support to 19 ERCs, FY 2025, showing $8.0M total broken out by cash support, other assets, equipment, and visiting personnel

27 | Industrial/Practitioner New Support to 19 ERCs, FY 2025

ERC End of Year Slide - FY 2025 NSF Engineering Research Centers by Sector, mapping all 19 active ERCs to their technology sectors: Advanced Manufacturing, Biotechnology and Healthcare, Energy and Smart Infrastructure, and Quantum, Microelectronics, Sensing and IT

28 | FY 2025 NSF Engineering Research Centers by Sector

ERC End of Year Slide - Non-NSF Government Support by ERC Technology Sector, FY 2019–2025, showing trends across Advanced Manufacturing, Biotechnology and Healthcare, Energy and Smart Infrastructure, and Quantum, Microelectronics, Sensing, and IT

29 | Non-NSF Government Support by ERC Technology Sector, FY 2019–2025

ERC End of Year Slide - Industry Support by ERC Technology Sector, FY 2019–2025, showing trends across Advanced Manufacturing, Biotechnology and Healthcare, Energy and Smart Infrastructure, and Quantum, Microelectronics, Sensing, and IT

30 | Industry Support by ERC Technology Sector, FY 2019–2025

ERC End of Year Slide - FY 2025 Sources of Support to 19 ERCs by Technology Sector, showing $257.3M total distributed across four sectors

31 | FY 2025 Sources of Support to 19 ERCs by Technology Sector

ERC End of Year Slide - FY 2025 Support to ERCs in Advanced Manufacturing Sector, showing $26.4M total broken out by funding source for CMaT, TARDISS, and HAMMER

32 | FY 2025 Support to ERCs in Advanced Manufacturing Sector

ERC End of Year Slide - FY 2025 Support to ERCs in Biotechnology and Healthcare Sector, showing $71.5M total broken out by funding source for ATP-Bio, CELL-MET, PATHS-UP, and PreMiEr

33 | FY 2025 Support to ERCs in Biotechnology and Healthcare Sector

ERC End of Year Slide - FY 2025 Support to ERCs in Energy and Smart Infrastructure Sector, showing $99.2M total broken out by funding source for ASPIRE, CASFER, CBBG, CISTAR, CURB, EARTH, and NEWT

34 | FY 2025 Support to ERCs in Energy and Smart Infrastructure Sector

ERC End of Year Slide - FY 2025 Support to ERCs in Quantum, Microelectronics, Sensing, and IT Sector, showing $60.1M total broken out by funding source for CQN, CS3, HAND, IoT4Ag, and POETS

35 | FY 2025 Support to ERCs in Quantum, Microelectronics, Sensing, and IT Sector

ERC End of Year Slide - FY 2025 Expenditures by Type of Research, All ERCs, showing $222.16M total split 75% fundamental research and 25% translational research

36 | FY 2025 Expenditures by Type of Research: All ERCs

ERC End of Year Slide - FY 2025 Expenditures by Type of Research, Advanced Manufacturing sector, showing $13.95M total split 64% fundamental and 36% translational research

37 | FY 2025 Expenditures by Type of Research: Advanced Manufacturing

ERC End of Year Slide - FY 2025 Expenditures by Type of Research, Biotechnology and Healthcare sector, showing $59.39M total split 87% fundamental and 13% translational research

38 | FY 2025 Expenditures by Type of Research: Biotechnology and Healthcare

ERC End of Year Slide - FY 2025 Expenditures by Type of Research, Energy and Smart Infrastructure sector, showing $95.74M total split 70% fundamental and 30% translational research

39 | FY 2025 Expenditures by Type of Research: Energy and Smart Infrastructure

ERC End of Year Slide - FY 2025 Expenditures by Type of Research, Quantum, Microelectronics, Sensing, and I.T. sector, showing $53.09M total split 75% fundamental and 25% translational research

40 | FY 2025 Expenditures by Type of Research: Quantum, Microelectronics, Sensing,…

ERC End of Year Slide - All ERC Disciplines, FY 2025, showing distribution of research disciplines across 637 total project investigators

41 | All ERC Disciplines, FY 2025

ERC End of Year Slide - Disciplines by Technology Sector: Advanced Manufacturing, FY 2025, showing distribution of research disciplines across 111 total project investigators

42 | Disciplines by Technology Sector: Advanced Manufacturing, FY 2025

ERC End of Year Slide - Disciplines by Technology Sector: Biotechnology and Healthcare, FY 2025, showing distribution of research disciplines across 94 total project investigators

43 | Disciplines by Technology Sector: Biotechnology and Healthcare, FY 2025

ERC End of Year Slide - Disciplines by Technology Sector: Energy and Smart Infrastructure, FY 2025, showing distribution of research disciplines across 294 total project investigators

44 | Disciplines by Technology Sector: Energy and Smart Infrastructure, FY 2025

ERC End of Year Slide - Disciplines by Technology Sector: Quantum, Microelectronics, Sensing, and IT, FY 2025, showing distribution of research disciplines across 138 total project investigators

45 | Disciplines by Technology Sector: Quantum, Microelectronics, Sensing, and IT,…

ERC End of Year Slide - Country of Citizenship of ERC Foreign Personnel, FY 2025

46 | Country of Citizenship of ERC Foreign Personnel, FY 2025

ERC End of Year Slide - Locations of the Active ERCs, FY 2025, map showing lead institutions for all 19 active ERCs

47 | Locations of the Active ERCs, FY 2025

ERC End of Year Slide - Locations of Foreign Participating Organizations, FY 2025, world map showing countries with organizations participating in ERCs

48 | Locations of Foreign Participating Organizations, FY 2025

ERC End of Year Slide - Locations of Foreign Participating Institutions, FY 2025, world map showing countries with institutions participating in ERCs

49 | Locations of Foreign Participating Institutions, FY 2025

ERC End of Year Slide - Number of Institutions and Organizations With Financial Headquarters Abroad Collaborating With ERCs, by Country of Origin, FY 2025

50 | Number of Institutions and Organizations With Financial Headquarters Abroad, FY…