Research Centers
Destination: Innovation
The Cockrell School of Engineering’s research units and centers coordinate and promote faculty and student research extending across and beyond campus. These centers also provide and maintain specialized research facilities for faculty within designated fields. Texas Engineering provides facilities that are among the best in the nation.
Cockrell School Research Centers
Center for Additive Manufacturing and Design Innovation
The Center for Additive Manufacturing and Design Innovation seeks to contribute to the rich history of additive manufacturing at UT Austin through innovative research and new process development.
Center for Aeromechanics Research
The Center for Aeromechanics Research conducts computational, analytical and experimental research in supersonic and hypersonic aerodynamics, high-temperature gas dynamics, turbulence, combustion, laser diagnostics, aeroelasticity and structural dynamics, control of flexible structures, and flight structures.
Center for Dynamics and Control of Materials
The Center for Dynamics and Control of Materials brings together researchers from across science and engineering to create materials with new atomic-scale structures and functionalities and to develop approaches for actively controlling and reconfiguring materials in real time.
Center for Electromechanics
The Center for Electromechanics performs leading-edge basic and applied research in electrical and mechanical engineering, with a special emphasis on applied engineering leading to prototype development in electromechanical devices and systems with high specific power, force and/or energy storage or other unique attributes.
Center for Energy and Environmental Resources
The Center for Energy and Environmental Resources focuses on efficient and economical use of energy and on ensuring a cleaner environment by developing, in cooperation with industry, processes and technologies that minimize waste and conserve natural resources.
Center for Energy and Environmental Systems Analysis
The Center for Energy and Environmental Systems Analysis provides data-driven, science-based research to inform global policy and support real-world emissions reductions across the energy sector.
Center for Generative AI
The Center for Generative AI is housed within the Machine Learning Laboratory (MLL) and conducts research with core focuses on biosciences, health care, computer vision and Natural Language Processing (NLP).
Center for Space Research
The Center for Space Research is a leader and innovator in mission planning, design and execution of spacecraft, aircraft and ground-based campaigns.
Center for Subsurface Energy and the Environment
The Center for Subsurface Energy and the Environment aims to be the premier academic research organization in all facets of subsurface energy. Through our leadership and technology innovation, we will enable energy security that balances environmental impact and affordable resources.
Center for Transportation Research
The Center for Transportation Research is one of the leading university-based transportation research centers in the world and works to promote cutting-edge developments in transportation science and technology.
Center for Water and the Environment
The Center for Water and the Environment conducts advanced research, education, design and planning in water resources and environmental management in Texas, the United States and internationally.
Construction Industry Institute
The Construction Industry Institute is a consortium of more than 130 leading owners, engineering contractors and supplier firms from both the public and private arenas.
Microelectronics Research Center
The Microelectronics Research Center performs education, research and development in materials and electronic devices.
Nuclear Engineering Teaching Laboratory
The Nuclear Engineering Teaching Laboratory provides education to the next generation of nuclear science and engineering leaders and conducts innovative research to solve multidisciplinary problems.
Texas Institute for Electronics
The Texas Institute for Electronics is a semiconductor consortium of state and local government, preeminent defense electronics and semiconductor companies, national labs and nationally recognized academic institutions
Texas Materials Institute
The Texas Materials Institute operates the materials science and engineering graduate program, provides the instrumentation necessary to conduct modern materials research and promotes interdisciplinary research in materials science and engineering.
Texas Quantum Institute
The Texas Quantum Institute researches new approaches to computing, energy-efficient electronics, secure communications, ultrasensitive sensors for medical diagnostics, semiconductor quality control and observing climate processes from space.
Wireless Networking and Communications Group
The Wireless Networking and Communications Group focuses on research, education, technical innovation, imagination and entrepreneurship in wireless networking, communications and data sciences.
UT Affiliated Research Units
Applied Research Laboratories
Applied Research Laboratories at The University of Texas at Austin is a Department of Defense University-Affiliated Research Center that engages in sponsored research dedicated to improving our national security through applications of acoustics, electromagnetics and information sciences.
Center for Perceptual Systems
The Center for Perceptual Systems in the university’s College of Liberal Arts is an integrated program in perception, neuroscience and computation.
The Energy Institute
The Energy Institute leverages UT Austin’s breadth and depth of expertise to educate the energy leaders of tomorrow, foster innovation and inform the policy-making process through rigorous, interdisciplinary research.
Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology
The Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology in the university’s College of Natural Sciences focuses efforts on the revolutionary developments occurring in molecular biology, genetics, cell biology and genomics.
Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
The UT Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences fosters the development of interdisciplinary programs in computational sciences and engineering, mathematical modeling, applied mathematics, software engineering and computational visualization.
Texas Robotics
Texas Robotics unites robotics efforts at The University of Texas at Austin to enable deeper collaborations, accelerate and grow research programs, and provide comprehensive educational offerings.