Research Themes Archives - Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

Adaptive Intelligent Materials & Systems Center

AIMS Center works to solve large-scale problems that benefit the economy and society through research on intelligent materials and adaptive systems.

Arizona Center for Algae Technology and Innovation

AzCATI harnesses algae technology to produce renewable energy, food, feed and other valuable products.

ASU Center for Semiconductor Microelectronics

ACME focuses on research on devices, circuits and architectures, through strategic collaborations with industry partners.

ASU Energy Efficiency Center

ASU Energy Efficiency Center is a DOE Industrial Assessment Center committed to identifying sustainable technology, systems, and productivity.

ASU–Mayo Center for Innovative Imaging

AMCII aims to improve patient care by developing innovative therapeutic technologies, imaging acquisitions, imaging analytic tools, machine learning, and artificial intelligence algorithms.

ASU–Starbucks Center for the Future of People and the Planet

The ASU-Starbucks Center emphasizes research on developing greener stores, community betterment, food and wellness, and innovation test stores.

Building Reliable Advances and Innovation in Neurotechnology

BRAIN centers on an innovation ecosystem that studies human interaction with medical device technologies.

Center for Accelerating Operational Eﬃciency

CAOE develops and applies advanced analytical tools and technologies to enhance planning, information sharing and real-time decision-making in homeland security operations.

Center for Adaptive Neural Systems

Driven by the needs of potential users, engineers and scientists at ANS are creating technology to offset the effects of spinal cord injury, orthopedic injury, Parkinson’s disease and cerebral palsy.

Center for Assured and Scalable Data Engineering

CASCADE bridges industry and academia, translating research in data processing and analysis into impactful technological solutions for sectors like energy, healthcare, security and finance.

Center for Bio-mediated and Bio-inspired Geotechnics

CBBG focuses on biologically based design and sustainability to develop ecologically friendly, cost-effective solutions, inspired by nature, for development and rehabilitation of resilient and sustainable civil infrastructure systems.

Center for Biocomputing, Security and Society

CBSS translates insights between computer science and biology to understand and mitigate malicious behavior in complex systems, with application in managing cancer and repairing cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

Center for Bioelectronics and Biosensors

The BB Center aims to develop next-generation platforms to improve technologies in the health industries.

Center for Biomaterials Innovation and Translation

CBIT will transform the design, discovery and engineering of biomaterials, leading to translational technologies for advancing human health.

Center for Biosignatures Discovery Automation*

CBDA studies cell dynamics in diseases, technology for measuring cellular events and microorganisms’ responses to harsh environmental changes.

Center for Carbon-Efficient and Advanced Manufacturing of Materials and Structures

CAMMS aims to advance breakthrough technologies toward sustainable and efficient infrastructural materials manufacturing and infrastructure construction.

Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing

CUbiC facilitates multimedia computing through sensing and processing, recognition and learning, interaction and delivery to develop applications for assistive, rehabilitative and healthcare applications.

Center for Complex System Safety

CCSS transforms safety assurance through prognostics-based risk management based on an approach combining information fusion, probabilistic physics-based learning, and large network computing and communication.

Center for Cybersecurity and Trusted Foundations

CTF focuses on developing the next generation of cyber-reasoning systems that can automatically find vulnerabilities, synthesize exploits, and create patches of real-world software.

Center for Eﬃcient Vehicles and Sustainable Transportation Systems

EVSTS aims to yield transformational improvements in the energy efficiency and environmental sustainability of ground vehicles.

Center for Embedded Systems

CES enables sensing, communications, computing, and control in everyday objects, with applications in many areas, including personalized healthcare, consumer electronics, aerospace, industrial automation, automotive and transportation and security.

Center for Environmental Health Engineering

CEHS aims to better understand and manage key environmental determinants of human health and global sustainability.

Center for Human/Artificial Intelligence/Robot Teaming

CHART focuses on developing methods to assemble the most effective human-synthetic agent teams in support of national security with a multidisciplinary approach.

Center for Hydrologic Innovations

CHI focuses on water science and engineering that advances the mission of water managers and decision-makers for the benefit of industry and society.

Center for Intelligent, Distributed, Embedded Applications and Systems

The IDEAS Center focuses on designing smart hardware and software that sense, collect, compute, communicate and control the world around us while targeting extreme energy efficiencies and high performance.

Center for Negative Carbon Emissions

CNCE focuses on developing the next generation of carbon management technologies with a focus on carbon recycling and disposal and the economic and policy implications of air capture.

Center for Photonics Innovation*

CPI focuses on research related to the fundamental study of photon-matter interactions and practical optical sensors for medical and biological impacts.

Center for Research Advancing Racial Equity, Justice and Sociotechnical Innovation Centered in Engineering

RARE JUSTICE is a nexus at ASU focused on the research and implementation of anti-racist technologies, educational practices and impact.

Center for Sustainable Macromolecular Materials and Manufacturing

The Center for Sustainable Macromolecular Materials and Manufacturing will integrate the concepts of green chemistry and sustainable engineering practices across the continuum of materials innovation to provide the products we need for a sustainable life.

Center for Teaching Old Models New Tricks

TOMNET is an ASU research center that focuses on developing and advancing transportation forecasting models for mobility of people and goods.

Center for Wireless Information Systems and Computational Architectures

WISCA aids the development of advanced fluid protocols and mixed software-defined radios with hardware accelerators, based at ASU.

Center of Excellence for Energy

COE/E is funded by USAID with the support of the American people with a goal to advance Egypt’s energy transition to aid the country in reaching its target of utilizing 42% renewable energy by 2035.

Center of Excellence in Future Generation Wireless Technology

COE-FutureG aims to foster an environment conducive to research, education, knowledge dissemination, and workforce development, geared towards bolstering the U.S. military’s technological superiority in Future Generation Wireless Technology.

Connection One

Connection One’s research focuses on developing technologies for cellular, environmental and defense applications.

Electrified Processes for Industry Without Carbon – EPIXC

Electrified Processes for Industry Without Carbon – EPIXC is the DOE’s 7th Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institute, based at ASU.

Flexible Electronics and Display Center*

FEDC is an ASU research center that aims at bridging the resource-intensive gap between innovation and product development.

Global Hydrogen Production Technologies Center

The HyPT Center establishes an international partnership of six countries to formulate a pathway to low-cost large-scale net-zero hydrogen production.

Global Security Initiative

GSI is committed to advancing research in support of national and global security.

Metis Center for Infrastructure and Sustainable Engineering

Metis Center at ASU focuses on learning how engineered and built systems are integrated with natural and human systems.

Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment Center

NEWT works on water treatment systems that facilitate access to clean water anywhere.

National Center of Excellence on SMART Innovations

NCE SMART at ASU seeks to quantify complex climate-energy system interactions and develop cost effective solutions to reduce negative impacts.

Navrotsky Eyring Center for Materials of the Universe

MotU attracts and inspires scientists across all STEM fields as it synergistically applies materials research methods and explores alien and extreme conditions and environments with the expectation of discovering new, useful materials and understanding the formation and evolution of planets.