Masdar Institute of Science and Technology launched five Institute Research Centers (iCenters), consolidating research activities to support its next phase of growth as a research intensive university.
The five iCenters will collectively support Masdar’s regionally-focused but globally-recognized university.
Each iCenter focuses on a specific research area. iInnovation focuses on accelerating the pace of innovation and entrepreneurship throughout the UAE, while iEnergy works towards sustainable production, transport, use, and storage of energy. iWater addresses clean water production and management, and water resource challenges faced by the UAE and the region. iMicro serves as a research and development hub for the UAE’s emerging semiconductor ecosystem with research activities in semiconductor device design and fabrication, circuit and system design, photonics, and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). Finally, iSmart addresses the development of smart and sustainable engineering systems through work on policy and system design and analysis using novel modeling and computational tools.
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