Research Initiatives

Energy

Sustainable Business and Industry

Sustainable Communities

Energy

Center for Innovative Fuel Cell and Battery Technologies (FC/BT): Tom Fuller, 770.528.7075
The Center for Innovative Fuel Cell and Battery Technologies serves as a catalyst for revolutionary advances through world-class research integrated across disciplines and spanning from fundamental discovery to application-specific prototypes. Groundbreaking research in these areas will move the world toward more sustainable energy sources.
Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE): Bernard Kippelen, 404.385.5163
The Georgia Tech Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE) will be the premier research and educational resource in the nation for the creation of flexible organic photonic and electronic materials and devices that serve the information-technology, energy, and defense sectors.
National Electric Energy Testing, Research, and Applications Center (NEETRAC): Hans Puttgen, 404.894.2927
The National Electric Energy Testing, Research, and Applications Center (NEETRAC) is a nonprofit, member-supported electric energy research, development, and testing center housed in the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Widely recognized as one of the world's foremost electric energy research, testing, and evaluation centers, NEETRAC is engaged in a wide spectrum of innovative activities.
Strategic Energy Institute: Sam Shelton, 404.385.0384
The Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute's mission is to actively engage in and facilitate energy technology development, assessments, demonstration projects, and policy guidance based on scientific facts, engineering principles, and economic realities.
University Center for Excellence in Photovoltaics: Ajeet Rohatgi, 404.894.7692
In the 21st century, photovoltaics (PV), the direct conversion of sunlight into electricity, can potentially meet the rapidly growing demand for electricity with minimal environmental consequence. The real challenge lies in reducing the cost of solar cells while raising their efficiencies. Research and education on advanced PV materials and devices will play a major role in accelerating the development of cost-effective PV. To address these issues, the Department of Energy (DOE) has established a University Center of Excellence for Photovoltaics Research and Education (UCEP) at Georgia Tech, one of two such centers in the United States.

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Sustainable Business and Industry

Center for Biologically Inspired Design: Jeannette Yen, 404.385.1596
Biologically inspired design, or biomimicry, capitalizes on the rich source of design solutions present in biological processes at all levels. All successful organisms survive because they have adapted to a particular challenge; therefore, biological processes are design solutions. The goal of the Center for Biologically Inspired Design (CBID) is to enable the search for biologically inspired solutions as efficient, practical, and sustainable answers to design and engineering problems.
Center for International Business Education and Research: John McIntyre, 404.894.1463
The mission of the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) is to ensure the long-term international economic competitiveness of the United States through support of research, business education initiatives, and corporate outreach activities.
Expanding Closed-loops in Production Systems: Beril Toktay, 404.385.0104
Expanding Closed-loops in Production Systems (ECLIPS) is a unique collaborative research program based on a vision of generating and disseminating knowledge about sustainable closed-loop systems, systems that encompass all activities related to product reuse, recycling or remanufacturing (product re-X). ECLIPS is a collaboration between the College of Management, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Public Policy, and City and Regional Planning.
Environmentally Conscious Design and Manufacturing: Bert Bras, 404.894.5675
The Environmentally Conscious Design and Manufacturing (ECDM) program integrates the long-term research agenda in environmentally conscious design and manufacturing with ongoing economic development activities in the State of Georgia. Our goal is to provide Georgia with insight into emerging and core technologies that will shape the character of competitive industries in the future.
Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship: Terry C. Blum, 404.894.4924
The Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship (ILE) is an interdisciplinary unit of Georgia Tech that develops individual and organizational leadership capabilities for economic growth, social responsibility, and environmental sustainability. Housed in the interdisciplinary area of the College of Management at Technology Square, ILE builds practical and conceptual skills such as leadership, citizenship, and cultural awareness, and teaches students from all disciplines how to create greater value by focusing on a triple bottom line.
Institute of Paper Science and Technology: Jim Federick, 404.894.6496
The Institute of Paper Science and Technology's (IPST) vision is recognition as the world's leading research and educational enterprise supporting the global forest products and relatedÊ industries. Our research focus is in the areas of: materials/new product platforms; the process technology to support the industry and its newÊ products; sustainable materials, energy, and chemicals; and clonal forestry.
Manufacturing Research Center: Steve Danyluk, 404.894.9687
The Manufacturing Research Center (MARC) brings together a multidisciplinary faculty and student body to create a talented, forward-thinking research and educational program that targets specific industry needs in long- and near-term research. MARC provides an infrastructure for all types of manufacturing-related research, designing and implementing research programs and agendas that optimize strengths already in place at Georgia Tech.
Specialty Separations Center (Green Chemistry): Charles Eckert, 404.894.3690
Specialty separations are the key to process development and profitability for the twenty-first century. Successful separations will foster the high-tech industry needed for improved competitiveness and also yield exciting new products by environmentally benign processes. The Specialty Separations Center (SSC) trains students and works with industry and government to learn fundamentals of separations science and apply them to real-world applications.
Systems Realization Laboratory: Janet Allen, 404.894.8168
The Systems Realization Laboratory (SRL) is focused on identifying, researching, developing, and understanding new principles, tools, and technologies that support designers, engineers, and managers in their quest to realize better products faster for a global marketplace.

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Sustainable Communities

Air Resources Engineering Center: Armistead (Ted) G. Russell, 404.894.3079
The Air Resources Engineering Center (AREC) is an Institute-wide catalyst for research in air quality and its effects, air pollution and its control, and climate change and its regional impacts. Through the Center, investigators from a wide range of disciplines—including the physical and life sciences, applied engineering, economics, and social sciences—work together to address current needs and identify emerging issues related to air resources in the Southeastern United States, with a particular emphasis on Georgia.
Center for Geographic Information Systems: Steven French, 404.385.0900
Nick Faust, 404.385.0900
Georgia Tech and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) combined efforts in 1991 to establish joint Centers for Spatial Analysis Technologies, of which the Center for Geographic Information Systems is part. The Centers house interdisciplinary teams working together in three aspects of spatial analysis technologies: education, service, and research.
Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development: Catherine Ross, 404.385.5130
The mission of the Center is to conduct research and promote the development and exchange of ideas. The Center must conduct sound, scientific research on the impacts of land use and development patterns on transportation, air quality, water resources, and quality of life. Furthermore, the Center must develop methods to visualize and understand the implications of "smarter" approaches to growth and development with an eye toward carefully documenting the costs and benefits of this form of development.
Center for Urban and Regional Ecology: Michael Chang, 404.385.0573
The Center for Urban and Regional Ecology (CURE) mission is to explore and promote options for sustainable human health and prosperity while improving air, water, land use, and biodiversity at the scale of regional ecosystems in which cities are embedded. CURE is a virtual center that facilitates the formation of integrated teams of natural scientists, engineers, human health scientists and practitioners, economists, city planners, and policy and social scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Georgia, Georgia State University, Emory University, and Morehouse College.
Construction Research Center: Roozbeh Kangari, 404.894.2296
Jorge Vanegas, 404.894.9880
The Construction Research Center has as its mission and function to facilitate and coordinate educational goals and research activities between academics and the construction industry by forging partnerships between industry and academics, and creating sustainable and cost effective facilities and infrastructure.
Georgia Transportation Institute: Glenn Rix, 404.894.2292
The Georgia Transportation Institute (GATI) is a consortium of Georgia universities active in transportation research and education. GATI is headquartered at the Georgia Institute of Technology and coordinates activities of researchers at Georgia State University, the University of Georgia, Clark Atlanta University, Georgia Southern University, Southern Polytechnic State University, Albany State University, and Mercer University. More than 90 researchers are active in research on topics including policy and planning, environmental issues, transportation technology, transportation infrastructure, and traffic operations.
Georgia Water Resources Institute: Aris Georgakakos, 404.894.2240
The Georgia Water Resources Institute (GWRI) at Georgia Tech was authorized by US Congress through the Water Resources Research Act of 1964 (P.L. 101-397). This Act mandated the creation of a water resources research institute in each of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and the trust territories of the U.S. The GWRI mission is to foster the creation of partnerships, resources, and knowledge base necessary to address current water resources challenges in the state of Georgia, the U.S., and the world.

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