ENME Research Centers

The Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE)
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The Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE) is an interdisciplinary research center sponsored by over 50 commercial corporate and government organizations from all sectors of the electronics systems industry. Over the last 15 years, CALCE has invested over $45M in developing methodologies, models, and design tools that address the design and manufacturing of electronic systems. CALCE is recognized as a founder and driving force behind the development and implementation of physics-of-failure approaches to reliability and life cycle prediction, as well as a world leader in accelerated testing, and electronic parts selection and management. CALCE is currently at the forefront of international standards development for critical electronic systems having chaired the development of several reliability and part selection standards. CALCE is currently staffed by over 100 faculty, staff and students, and in 1999 became the first academic research facility in the world to be ISO 9001 certified. Collectively, CALCE researchers have authored over 25 internationally acclaimed textbooks and well over 250 research publications relevant to reliability initiatives emphasizing manufacturing related sustainability issues.

Center for Energetic Concepts Development
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CECD, established in 1998, is a cooperative research, technology transfer, product development, and S&T training alliance between the Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division (IHDIV/NSWC) and The University of Maryland. The Center works in collaboration with the College of Southern Maryland, the Naval Academy at Annapolis, and the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey, California. The Center is currently funded by the State of Maryland, the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and IHDIV/NSWC.

Center for Environmental Energy Engineering
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CEEE is an international leader in research and education in environmentally responsible and economically feasible thermal management systems for buildings, transportation and electronic cooling. With support from government and industry sponsors and the university, CEEE research addresses advanced heat exchangers, alternative cooling technologies and fluids, integrated systems optimization, and cooling, heating and power systems.

Center for Risk and Reliability
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The Center for Risk and Reliability (CRR) was created in May 2004 through the merger of the Center for Reliability Engineering (CRE) and Center for Technology Risk Studies (CTRS). CRE focused primarily on the research and development needs of the industry in product and process reliability. CTRS mainly addressed the research and development needs of the government agencies in risk analysis and risk-informed decision making. CRR mission is inclusive of the missions of the centers it replaces.

Smart Materials & Structures Research Center
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The Smart Materials and Structures Research Center (SMSRC) was formed in 1994 to catalyze the development of existing and new smart materials and structures technologies, and to educate a new generation of multidisciplinary engineers in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The SMSRC has since grown to include six faculty members and thirty graduate students, with an annual research budget exceeding $1.5M from a variety of governmental and industrial sponsors.