Research Centers and Information

Biomanufacturing Research Institute & Technology Enterprise (BRITE) Center for Excellence
BRITE is part of the statewide initiative to make North Carolina a premiere provider of skilled workers for the biotechnology industry. The Center will provide laboratories for scholars conducting research in several areas critical to biotechnology and biomanufacturing.

Center for Manufacturing Research
Based at Tennessee Tech University, the mission of the center is to advance and support scientific and engineering knowledge in areas related to manufacturing through fundamental research and technology transfer activities, and to impact the instructional program in those areas.

Engineering Research Center for Net Shape Manufacturing (ERC/NSM)
The ERC/NSM at The Ohio State University is the leading university associated group in North America conducting R&D and providing education in metal forming (stamping, sheet & tube hydroforming, forging).

Grand Challenges for Engineering
With input from people around the world -- much of it on this website -- an international group of leading technological thinkers were asked to identify the Grand Challenges of Engineering in the 21st Century. Now their conclusions are revealed on this website.

Manufacturing Central
Manufacturing Central is your gateway to the research, statistics and news about manufacturing. It is brought to you by the Manufacturing Institute, the research and education arm of NAM.

Online Quality Resource Guide
Curious Cat Management Improvement Connections offers a topical directory of management improvement related sites: Deming, lean manufacturing, design of experiments, health care, six sigma, SPC and more.

The S.M. Wu Manufacturing Research Center (WuMRC) at The University of Michigan
WuMRC researchers are applying the knowledge of process monitoring, modeling and control to different medical areas to improve the speed, quality, efficiency, and cost of medical and healthcare services and research.