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MIT Energy Initiative joins White House's Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute

June 30th, 2016

The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) will share faculty expertise in clean energy innovation as an academic and research collaborator in the Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition (SMLC), which President Barack Obama announced last week will lead the new Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute to develop smart technologies and systems for use in advanced manufacturing with $70 million in support from the U.S. Department of Energy and $140 million in public-private investment.

The coalition, headquartered in Los Angeles, brings together a consortium of nearly 200 partners from across academia, industry, and nonprofits—hailing from more than 30 states—to spur advances in smart sensors and digital process controls that can radically improve the efficiency of U.S. advanced manufacturing.

"In the transition to a low-carbon energy future, increasing efficiency and reducing the carbon footprint of the U.S. advanced manufacturing sector will be essential. MIT faculty approach energy innovation from a wide range of disciplines, collaborating with each other as well as industry and government to solve complex energy and climate challenges like those presented by the manufacturing sector," said Robert C. Armstrong, director of MITEI. "We are delighted that President Obama selected the Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition to lead this important new institute and dramatically increase efficiency in the U.S. advanced manufacturing sector, and we are honored to be part of this collaborative effort."

"Working with the impressive team that the SMLC has assembled, we look forward to contributing MIT faculty research in areas including data analytics, control systems engineering, mathematical modeling, dynamic simulation, and optimization of complex manufacturing systems," said Richard D. Braatz, Edwin R. Gilliland Professor of Chemical Engineering, who manages MITEI's collaborations with the SMLC and the Institute.

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