With strategic initiatives spanning Autonomy & AI, Computational Engineering, Energy, Health, National Security, Sustainability, and Security, the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering leads and collaborates on various federal, industrial, and local Centers and Institutes to address enduring societal problems. Details on these initiatives are listed below. For a list of additional Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Institutes see (College Institutes Website):
- AFOSR Center of Excellence in Assured Autonomy in Contested Environments
- Center for Coastal Solutions
- Center for Intelligent Machines and Robotics (CIMAR)
- Center for Manufacturing Innovation (CMI)
- Florida Institute for National Security
- Industrial Assessment Center at the University of Florida (UF-IAC)
- Institute for Computational Engineering
- Interdisciplinary Microsystems Group
- Nanoscience Institute for Medical and Engineering Technology
- PredictONE: Predictive Methods for Next Generation Weapon S&T
- UF Transportation Institute
- Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World
The University of Florida is also the lead institution for the Florida Energy Systems Consortium (FESC), comprising 11 academic partners across the State University System of Florida.
National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (NSF I/UCRCs)
- Advanced Space Technologies Research and Engineering Center (ASTREC)
- NSF Center for Space, High-performance, and Resilient Computing (SHREC)
- Center for Particulate and Surfactant Systems (CPaSS)
- Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC) Center
