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Consortium Partnership Requirements and Benefits

The Materials and Nanotechnology Consortium offers its members a number of benefits:

  • priority access to Drexels world-class materials characterization facilities
  • intellectual resources, such as advising from Drexel faculty in specific research areas
  • a survey of Drexel intellectual property portfolio
  • access to Drexel students for individually directed projects, and many other benefits

For a full list of benefits, as well as the Consortium requirements, please read the Consortium Agreement.



Materials Science and Engineering At Drexel

Drexel University is home to a world-class faculty engaged in cutting-edge research in the synthesis, development, and application of advanced materials in an exciting urban environment. Recognized as a world renowned leader in its field, the Department of Materials Science and Engineering continues to receive high profile awards including a 2003 R&D 100 Award, three National Science Foundation Career Awards, one each of an NIH, ARO, and Whitaker Young Investigator Award, a 2001 Collegiate Inventors Award, and it counts one member of the National Academy of Engineering among its faculty. Many faculty members in other departments of the College of Engineering at Drexel University are involved in materials research as well.

Institutes, Centers, and Core Research Areas:

  • A. J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute
  • Drexel Plasma Institute including the Center for the Plasma Processing of Materials (CPPM)
  • Biomaterials and Biosurfaces in Tissue Engineering
  • Ceramics Processing Laboratory
  • Fibrous Materials Research Lab (FMRL)
  • Mechanics of Microstructures Group (MMG)
  • Mesoscaled Materials Laboratory (MML)
  • Nanostructured Materials Group
  • Particulate Materials Group (PMG)
  • Polymer Research Group