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RIO GRANDE VALLEY, TEXAS – Researchers at UT Rio Grande Valley have been awarded a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) program to establish a Center for Multidisciplinary Research Excellence in Cyber-Physic al Infrastructure Systems (MECIS).
“CREST MECIS will raise the research profile of the institution with state-of-the-art research projects in an area that is among the hottest topics in the engineering world and research expenditures of $1 million/year over the next five years,” said Dr. Constantine Tarawneh, Ph.D., principal investigator, Founding Director of the NSF CREST Center-MECIS, professor in mechanical engineering, and associate dean for research and graduate programs in the College of Engineering and Computer Science.
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