Research Centers
Tomnet Center
Driven by a wide variety of technologies, major societal shifts in demographics and values, and evolving policy instruments and planning practices, unprecedented changes are underway in transportation. It has never been more vital to understand and predict the...
Metis Center – Center for Infrastructure and Sustainable Engineering
The fundamental challenge to the Metis Center – Center for Infrastructure and Sustainable Engineering (formerly known as CESM) is to respond to the question: How can our species, already shaping an entire world without knowing it, learn to do so responsibly,...
Center for Health Information and Research (CHIR)
The Center for Health Information and Research fosters collaborations at the intersection of public health, engineering, public policy, computer science, economics, health information technology and consumer knowledge. Researchers from different engineering...
National Center of Excellence on Smart Innovations (NCE)
The National Center of Excellence on SMART Innovations provides climate and energy system solutions based on sound science and engineering to governments and industries around the globe. Our research seeks to quantify complex climate-energy system interactions...
Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology (CEB)
The Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology focuses on developing microbiological systems that capture or develop renewable resources to aid in the prevention and/or clean up of environmental pollution. Our team combines engineering approaches with microbiology...
Water & Environmental Technology Center (WET)
The Water & Environmental Technology Center has brought together a prestigious group of researchers within Arizona State University. These interdisciplinary research groups include biologists, chemists, physicists, hydrologists, engineers and social scientists...
Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment Systems (NEWT)
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment Systems (NEWT) will be the first national center to develop next-generation affordable, mobile, modular, high-performance water treatment systems...
Center for Bio-mediated and Bio-inspired Geotechnics (CBBG)
The NSF-funded Engineering Research Center for Bio-mediated and Bio-inspired Geotechnics (CBBG) seeks to understand and harness the scientific processes and principles of natural phenomena to develop more sustainable, safer, less intrusive, more resilient civil...
Research Clusters
ASU-Global Center for Safety Initiative
The ASU-Global Center for Safety Initiative seeks to support world-class education, research, and outreach programs focused on both Prevention through Design and integration of safety and health into the core business of organizations. [button...
Environmental Life-cycle Assessment of Passenger Transportation
Dr. Mikhail Chester has been developing environmental life-cycle inventories of passenger transportation modes. These analyses are the first comprehensive environmental life-cycle assessments of automobiles, buses, trains, and aircraft. The studies inventory energy...
Hydrologic Science, Engineering and Sustainability
Our research group at Arizona State University studies hydrological processes in natural and urban environments and their interactions with ecological, atmospheric and geomorphic phenomena. In these pages, you can learn about the current projects in our group, our...
Mechanics and Infrastructural Materials (MIM)
The focus of the mechanics and infrastructural materials cluster is on experimental and computational methods to understand the structural, mechanical, chemical, and thermal response of a wide variety of engineered materials including conventional and modified...
Pavement Analysis & Design
The Pavement Analysis and Design research cluster addresses pavement performance analysis, management, and design; advanced material testing and characterization; development of new and more efficient construction materials; and the development and dissemination of...
