Here are five multi-institutional and/or multi-disciplinary projects:
(1) The MAST Laboratory
"The Multi-Axial Subassemblage Testing (MAST) Laboratory is one node of the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES). The MAST Laboratory was developed as a collaboration between the Departments of Civil Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota. NEES is a national, networked simulation resource that includes geographically-distributed, shared-use, next-generation experimental research equipment sites built and operated to advance earthquake engineering research and education through collaborative experimentation. Other NEES nodes include SUNY-Buffalo, University of California-Davis, UCLA, Oregon State University and the University of Texas."Information excerpted from http://nees.umn.edu.
(2) The NCED at St. Anthony Falls Laboratory
"The National Center for Earth-Surface Dynamics is a Science and Technology Center of the National Science Foundation. The NCED's purpose is to catalyze development of an integrated, predictive science of the processes shaping the surface of the Earth in order to transform management of ecosystems, resources, and land use. The principal investigators are at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, the Johns Hopkins University, the Science Museum of Minnesota, University of California-Berkeley, University of Colorado-Boulder, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Louisiana State University, University of Texas-Austin, the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, and the University of Minnesota."Information excerpted from http://www.safl.umn.edu
(3) The Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power
"Headquartered at the University of Minnesota, the Center's vision is to create new fluid power technology that is compact and efficient. This will lead to significant fuel savings as the new technologies are implemented in existing and new applications. Improved compactness will enable fluid power to perform tasks that are not presently possible, spawning whole new industries. Besides the U of MN, other core universities are the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Georgia Institute of Technology, Purdue University, and Vanderbilt University. Outreach universities and organizations are the Milwaukee School of Engineering, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University, the National Fluid Power Association, Science Museum of Minnesota, and Project Lead the Way."Information excerpted from http://www.ccefp.org
(4) Program for Human Factors Interdisciplinary Research in Simulation and Transportation (HumanFIRST program)
"The program exists to enhance the safety and mobility of road and transit-based transportation through a focus on human-centered technology. A core staff of cognitive psychologists is linked to a broader multidisciplinary network of researchers."Information excerpted from http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu
(5) The CSDy Center
"The Control Science and Dynamical Systems Center's mission is to encourage stimulating interdisciplinary research in control science and dynamical system theory within the University of Minnesota's Institute of Technology. Researchers have a broad interest in numerical computation, robust control, nonlinear control, linear and nonlinear dynamical systems, and image processing. Faculty are drawn from the Departments of: Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics; Chemical Engineering and Materials Science; Computer Science and Engineering; Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Genetics, Cell Biology and Development; Economics; and Political Science."Information excerpted from http://www.csdy.umn.edu
