SOUTH CAROLINA: Clemson joins national alliance to guide engineering research
Clemson University, located in Clemson, South Carolina, has joined a new alliance led by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help guide the future of engineering research and innovation.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering has launched the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance (ERVA), the first engineering research-visioning organization of its kind. Clemson joined the alliance as a member of the EPSCoR IDEA Foundation, one of ERVA’s founding organizations.
“The mission of the Alliance aligns well with our strengths and goals as a Carnegie R1 research institution: pursue transformative research that will have the greatest impact on society and quality of life,” said Tanju Karanfil, Clemson vice president of research. “I enthusiastically support this effort to bring together all interested parties in shaping the future of engineering research.”
Clemson’s Daniel Noneaker, associate dean for research in the College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences, will serve as an ERVA liaison to interact with and recruit people and organizations interested in participating in the ERVA collaborative.
“The culture of excellence we strive for in the College’s research and academic enterprise is the result of productive partnerships with academic collaborators, government entities and industrial alliances,” said Anand Gramopadhye, dean of the College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences. “It is exciting to contemplate how ERVA will allow us to expand these partnerships.”
