The Center for Welding, Joining and Coatings Research includes interaction with American Welding Society's Precision Joining Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Army Research Office, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Sandia National Laboratory, the Office of Naval Research, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. The Center focuses on a wide range of both industrial and government supported research projects involving new welding, joining and coating processes for advanced materials.
	The Advanced Steel Processing and Products Research Center is a university-industry cooperative center sponsored by 23 companies and government agencies including both steel producers and users. The Center concentrates on modern physical and mechanical metallurgy of steel as well as research on new classes of advanced steels.
	The Colorado Center for Advanced Ceramics has research support from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the Office of Navel Research, NASA, and the Coors Ceramics Company. Its primary focus is on the processing and properties of advanced ceramic materials.
	A donation from the famous extractive metallurgist William Justin Kroll established the W. J. Kroll Institute for Extractive Metallurgy in 1973. The faculty affiliated with this Center conduct research on all facets of chemical processing of materials, mineral processing, and extractive metallurgy as well as the treatment and processing of industrial wastes and corrosion.
	The Center for Computation and Simulation for Materials and Engineering has been established at CSM to focus on the application of computational techniques to solving materials problems. Computer techniques are being applied to fundamental atomic and molecular behavior to improve the properties of existing materials and explore the synthesis, properties, and processing of new materials.
	The Advanced Coating and Surface Engineering Laboratory performs industrial consortium and sponsor specific research on thin films/coating systems, surface engineering, and tribology. Consortium research benefits producers, users, and equipment manufacturers. Current research includes photovoltaic thin films; semiconductor processing; corrosion-, oxidation-, and wear-resistance coatings; functionally graded coating systems; and modeling and synthesis of engineered surfaces for specific applications.
	The Center for Solar and Electronic Materials was established in 1995 to focus, support, and extend CSM activities in electronic materials for solar and related applications. The Center conducts research in photovoltaics, thin film materials, semiconductors, polymeric devices, electrophotograpy, encapsulants, electronic materials processing and systems issues associated with electronic materials and devices. Research support for the Center comes from the department of Energy, national laboratories, public utilities, and private industry.

For further information, contact the Program Manager: Sharon Kirts

Mailing Address:
Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, CO 80401
Phone: 303-273-3660 or 1-800-446-9488 Ext. 3660
FAX: 303-384-2189

E-mail: skirts@Mines.EDU

Last Updated: 09/15/1998