ICES — The Institute for Complex Engineered Systems — fosters multidisciplinary research and relationships between Carnegie Mellon University, industry, and government agencies.

Research Centers & Clusters

Research through the institute is geared toward multidisciplinary projects that involve faculty from two or more departments. The research is organized into centers and clusters.

The current centers and clusters are:

• Bioengineering Technologies
• CEINT – Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology
• CenSCIR – Center for Sensed Critical Infrastructure Research
• CIMM – Center for Implantable Medical Microsystems
• CM²EM – Center for Multiscale Modeling for Engineering Materials
• CNXT – Center for Nano-enabled Device and Energy Technologies
• Engineering Design
• EWO - Enterprise Wide Optimization
• LINCS - Lab for Interactive Real-Time Computing Systems
• Microsystems
• PSII - Pennsylvania Smart Infrastructure Incubator
• SEER - Steinbrenner Institute for Education and Research
• T-SET - Technologies for Safe and Efficient Transportation
• Water QUEST - Water Quality in Urban Environmental Systems

The institute administers an undergraduate minor in Engineering Design that includes multiple courses with cross-disciplinary content. Outreach activities include events with 4th graders, 7th – 8th grade girls, and summer undergraduate research. The institute awards and administers the Philip and Marsha Dowd / ICES Fellowships to graduate students to seed innovative research projects. The Steven J. Fenves Award for Systems Research is also awarded through the institute. Additionally, ICES administers a large state funded program called the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance (PITA).