Center for Maritime Systems The Center for Maritime Systems continues the nearly 75-year old tradition of the Davidson Laboratory in employing the experimental method to solve complex problems that are otherwise intractable. This approach has been extended to include the physical and numerical modeling of ocean and vessel dynamics, as well as full-scale prototype testing and ocean field observations.
The CMS is a truly unique research and education center that combines the fields of naval architecture, coastal and ocean engineering, physical oceanography, and marine hydrodynamics to create a trans-disciplinary enterprise that can address both the highly-specialized issues confronting each discipline, as well as the more complex, integrated issues facing natural and man-made maritime systems.
For more information, please visit the: CMS Web Site DHS Center of Excellence
The National Center for Secure and Resilient Maritime Commerce (CSR) provides expertise in national Marine Transportation System (MTS) policy, ocean engineering, maritime security, marine sciences, satellite and radar remote sensing, marine transportation and logistics, systems engineering, oceanography, computer science, naval architecture, physics, sociology, psychology, US and international law, and economics. CSR closely coordinates all of its efforts with the Center for Island, Maritime & Extreme Environment Security (CIMES) at the University of Hawaii.
CSR goals are:
- Improving port security, coastal security and the security of offshore (Exclusive Economic Zone or EEZ) operations and leveraging security investments to also improve economic performance;
- Improving emergency response to events in the maritime domain; and
- Improving the resiliency of the MTS, offshore operations, and our nation?s coastal environments.
For more information, please visit the CSR web site NJ Center for Microchemical Systems The NJ Center for Microchemical Systems (NJCMCS) is a global leader in the design and characterization of microchemical Systems that emphasizes the rapid transfer of technology innovations to the marketplace in partnership with biomedical, chemical, defense, energy, and pharmaceutical industries.
NJCMCS aims to build the core knowledge base required to design, integrate, and produce microchemical devices on a rational basis, as emerging platforms for chemical process intensification and miniaturization. Currently, the Center is carrying out several vibrant projects, through innovative university-industry-government partnerships, for miniature fuel cell power devices and safe and cost-effective on-demand production of chemicals and pharmaceuticals
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The Center for Environmental Systems (CES), a unique synthesis of the professional and academic worlds, is dedicated to applied, interdisciplinary research for the solution of pressing, real-world environmental problems. Through advanced knowledge and in-depth professional expertise, CES is recognized as a leader in the development, evaluation and implementation of new environmental technologies.
The researchers at the CES, through collaborations with government agencies and industrial partners, work to generate new scientific knowledge, which leads to the creation of innovative technologies, sound enivonrmental policy and sensible resource management. Over the years CES has played an instrumental role in establishing new technologies for environmental control. Companies established as a result of research innovations at the Center for Environmental Systems include:
- PlasmaSol: PlasmaSol Corporation was founded with the mission to utilize platform plasma technologies for tomorrow's industry. Our plan to achieve this is to continue to develop and in-license, and to promote uses for plasma technology.
- HydroGlobe: The award-winning environmental company with leading edge, patent-pending products for removal of heavy metals from water at a fraction of the cost of the current technology
For more information, please visit the CES Web Site Design & Manufacturing Institute
The Design & Manufacturing Institute (DMI) is an interdisciplinary center that integrates product design, materials processing, and manufacturing expertise with modern software and embedded systems technologies for defense and commercial applications.
DMI's multi-discipinary research spans:
- Knowledge-based Design and Design Process Automation,
- Engineered Materials and Processes
- Computational Methods for Product Life & Failure Prediction
- Emdedded Sensing and Control
- Micro-Devices for Hazardous Environments
- Systems Integration
Researchers at DMI use a state-of-the-art, 6,000 square foot facility located on the first floor of the Carnigie Laboratory of Engineering. This facility hosts the following:
- Rapid Prototyping: SLA and Z-COR
- Instron Testing Machine
- Coordinate Measurement Machine
- Kitamura 3-Axis CNC Mill
- 300 Ton Injection Molding Machine
- 650 F Oven
- Hygrothermal Environmental Chamber
- Grinder & Belt Saw
- 500 sq. ft Class 100 Clean Room Under Construction for 2006
For more information, please visit the DMI Web site Highly Filled Materials Institute
The Highly Filled Materials Insitute (HfMI) investigates, both experimentally and theoretically, the rheological behavior, microstructure, processability and ultimate properties of highly filled materials, including suspensions and dispersions with nanoparticles.
HfMI carries out contract research for the government agencies and corporations in various industries, including solid rocket fuels and explosives, detergents, intermediary and final food products, batteries, polymeric master-batches and compounds, construction products, magnetic, and ceramics. HfMI stays in contact with these industries in order to better define its research goals and to focus its efforts and equip its laboratories to address immediate and long-term concerns.
The facilities of HfMI are furnished with state-of-the-art equipment, including a mini-supercomputer and graphic workstations for numerical simulation, industrial-size continuous and batch processors, computerized data acquisition and process control systems, and equipment for characterization of microstructural distributions, magnetic and electrical properties, rheology, wettability and image analysis. The proprietary technologies of HfMI include magnetic shielding methods, on-line rheometry, disposal method for chemical munitions, x-ray-based quantitative degree of mixedness technique, and three-dimensional FEM-based source codes for 3-D simulation of EMF mitigation, extrusion, molding and die flows.
For more information, please visit the HFMI Web Site Center for Intelligent Networked SystemsThe Center for Intelligent Networked Systems (iNetS) was established to explore opportunities for insertion of intelligence within networked systems to achieve "smart" systems whose components easily work with one another. Networked systems extend from large scale systems of diverse interconnected networks through specialized networks optimized for targeted applications to the end-points of networks. iNetS explores the systematic insertion of intelligence at all points throughout this complex system of systems to achieve ease of operation and quality of service. For this purpose, iNetS explores insertion of intelligence within points of the overall networked system, consistent with the needs of adjacent connected components.
For more information, please visit the INetS Web Site Center for Innovation in Engineering & Science Education Since 1988, CIESE programs and activities have reached more than 20,000 educators worldwide through grants and contracts totaling more than $22 million that improve K-12 science and mathematics education through the use of technology. CIESE's mission is to catalyze and support excellence in teaching and learning of science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) and other core subjects through innovative, research-based instructional strategies and use of novel technologies.
For more information, please visit the: CIESE Web Site Algebraic Cryptography CenterThe Algebraic Cryptography Center has been formed to investigate new techniques from computational algebra and their applications to practical problems in cryptography and cryptanalysis.
The main research themes at the center are
- Cryptanalysis of public key cryptosystems based on algebraic problems.
- Theoretical development of generic complexity.
- Application of generic complexity to the problem of testing the security of cryptosystems.
For more information, please visit the: ACC Web Site The Center for the Advancement of Secure Systems and Information AssuranceThe Center for the Advancement of Secure Systems and Information Assurance (CASSIA) was formed in 2008 with the purpose to integrate and coordinate the education and research efforts within the Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science in the area of Cybersecurity and Information Assurance.
The mission of the center is to foster collaboration and act as a catalyst for research, education, and entrepreneurship in information assurance and cybersecurity. Advances in the field require conceptualizing, measuring, modeling, and countering a multitude of rapidly evolving threats. Crucial efforts to meet these challenges include investigation of appropriate theoretical frameworks, novel analysis of existing defense mechanisms, technical innovations, development and deployment of commercial solutions, adoption of suitable policies and standards, and education of systems professionals, managers, policy-makers, and the general population. The center promotes a cohesive undertaking of the above endeavors to maximize their effectiveness and impact.
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