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Posted on: 11/24/2011 12:00:00 AM... The University of Michigan (UM) has announced that it will invest $30 million in support of computational science and engineering over the next five years.Recent significant projects related to this commitment include:

**Launching the Center for Integrated Computational Materials Engineering, a multi-faculty center that will work with industry and government to develop new technical capabilities for engineering new materials and optimizing manufacturing processes.

**Initiating the Integrated Computational Materials Education Summer School, an National Science Foundation-supported program designed for training faculty and post-doctoral fellows to implement new computational methods for materials in the classroom. (A short course based on this curriculum is being offered at the TMS 2012 Annual Meeting and Exhibition, March 11-15, Orlando Florida.)

**Establishing the Institute of Computational Science and Engineering, a cross-university endeavor that fosters a culture and community for scientific computing.

**Establishing CIRRUS, a UM-based cloud to support computational and data-enabled science and engineering, and FLUX, its flagship machine for high performance computing.

In related news, the University of Connecticut and the State of Connecticut announced plans to invest $170 million into advanced materials development, including an inaugural facility named the Collaboratory for Materials & Manufacturing. Activity in this new facility will include: discovery of new materials and processes; advanced modeling and simulation tool development; applying advanced informatics to accelerate development; new techniques in education and workforce training; an industry researcher in residence program; and collaborations with manufacturing partners.

Both universities have noted in statements that these efforts are closely aligned with the Materials Genome Initiative launched by President Barack Obama in June, as well as related science and technology initiatives. The University of Michigan, in fact, is the site of the next Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP) Regional Meeting on December 12. The Materials Genome Initiative is a critical enabling component of AMP.

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