Energy, Sustainability, and Infrastructure

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Nanosystems ERC for Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment Systems

Award No. 1449500

NEWT intends to develop high-performance and easy-to-deploy water treatment systems that will broaden access to clean drinking water from a variety of unconventional sources and enable industrial wastewater reuse at off-grid locations.

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ERC for Bio-mediated and Bio-inspired Geotechnics

Award No. 1449501

CBBG will employ or mimic natural biological processes and materials to engineer the ground in ways that reduce infrastructure development lifecycle costs and impacts while mitigating natural hazards and environmental degradation.

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ERC for Quantum Energy and Sustainable Solar Technologies

Award No. 1041895

QESST seeks to transform the existing electricity generation system, making it sustainable, ubiquitous, and multifunctional, by developing photovoltaic and quantum energy converters, which fundamentally alter how energy is used.

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ERC for Ultra-wide Area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Networks

Award No. 1041877

CURENT is developing a nation-wide transmission grid that is fully monitored and dynamically controlled for high efficiency, high reliability, low cost, better accommodation of renewable sources, full utilization of storage, and responsive load.

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ERC for Re-Inventing the Nation's Urban Water Infrastructure

 Award No. 1028968

ReNUWIt advances new strategies for urban water systems, enabled by technological advances and informed by a deeper understanding of institutional frameworks, to achieve more sustainable solutions to urban water challenges.

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Future Renewable Electric Energy Delivery and Management Systems Center

Award No. 0812121 

FREEDM is developing an electric energy distribution infrastructure system with plug and play capabilities for renewable sources and energy storage systems—i.e., develop a "Smart Grid."

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Center for Biorenewable Chemicals

CBiRC focuses on using biomass to create biobased products that are healthier, sustainable, and more effective alternatives to petrochemical products.

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Mid-America Earthquake Center

Develop methodologies and application tools for quantifying and mitigating the effects of earthquakes, especially in the central USA, and other low-probability, high-consequence earthquakes. Establish global alliances for assessment and intervention at both the systems and societal levels to protect communities vulnerable to earthquake effects

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Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center

PEER"s mission is to develop, validate, and disseminate performance-based seismic design technologies for buildings and infrastructure to meet the diverse economic and safety needs of owners and society.

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Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research

Dedicated to the discovery and development of new knowledge, tools, and technologies that equip communities to become more disaster-resilient in the face of earthquakes and other extreme events

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Offshore Technology Research Center

Provide technology, expertise and services needed for the development of drilling, production and transportation systems that enable the safe and economically viable exploitation of hydrocarbon resources in deep and ultra-deep water

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Advanced Technology for Large Structural Systems Engineering Research Center

Research and develop the technologies required to support sustainable infrastructure systems by addressing engineering opportunities in critical areas, including resistance to deterioration and resiliency to extreme events

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Advanced Combustion Engineering Research Center

Develop, apply, and transfer advanced combustion technology to industry through fundamental engineering research and educational programs aimed at the solution of critical combustion problems