The college is home to a number of research centers, which reflect our range of partners, our commitment to translational research, and our diversity of funding sources.
Designated by the state of Tennessee as a Center of Excellence, CMP’s research efforts focus on the control of material properties through their composition and molecular structure as well as how these factors relate to materials processing. Participating researchers come from all engineering disciplines.
CTR, a nationally and internationally recognized research entity, was created in 1970 to foster and facilitate interdisciplinary research, public service, and outreach in the field of transportation.
The Center for Ultra-wide-area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Networks (CURENT) was founded for the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) prestigious Engineering Research Center program. Funded for $32.5 million over 10 years by the NSF and the US Department of Energy, it is the first center of its kind at UT. The center works closely with industrial partners, and its research focuses on improving the nation’s electric power transmission system.
Jack Dongarra, a Distinguished Scientist in the Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UT and a Distinguished Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory founded the Innovative Computing Laboratory (ICL) in 1989. ICL is a world leader in enabling technologies and software for scientific computing.
ISSE promotes the development of policies, technologies, and educational programs in response to pressing environmental issues facing the state, the nation, and the world. The institute’s interdisciplinary research includes water resources, environmental security, energy and environmental policy research, education and social perspectives, agriculture and natural resources, and environmental sustainability.
RMC is a university–industry association dedicated to improving industrial productivity, efficiency, safety, and profitability through the use of management systems, analysis techniques, and advanced predictive and preventive technologies to identify, manage, and eliminate failures.
SMRC is a unique, multidisciplinary research facility formed by a collaboration between UT and Siemens Medical Solutions Molecular Imaging. The center’s mission is to discover and develop new scintillation materials to provide the foundation for advances in gamma ray, x-ray, and neutron detectors.