Engineering

We work with world-class partners to reach higher, go further and build smarter. Every day, we use sophisticated simulations and advanced modeling techniques to take Illinois innovation wherever it’s needed most.

Partnering with colleagues on campus, like the outstanding Grainger School of Engineering, as well as industry giants such as Rolls Royce and John Deere, NCSA helps push the boundaries of engineering with the application of high-performance computing at a massive scale. 

Questions about NCSA’s work in engineering?

Chuck Pavloski
Associate Director of Engagement
chuckp@illinois.edu

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Center for Exascale-enabled Scramjet Design (CEESD)

See how we’re partnering with the Grainger College of Engineering to advance supersonic travel with physics-faithful predictive simulations that advance scramjet design.

Explore CEESD

NCSA Spotlight

Elif Ertekin, professor of mechanical science and engineering

Elif Ertekin
Associate Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering

Professor Ertekin works in computational materials science and mechanics to design new functional materials across a variety of applications.


Working with NCSA has helped my team produce software and simulation tools to help researchers improve our understanding of emerging nanomanufacturing processes.


Project Highlights

Big leaps in technology often require major advances at the nanoengineering level. See how we’re doing that, creating a community with the software tools and training materials to take nanomanufacturing to the next level.

Abstract coding of software in various colors like cyan, purple, pink, yellow, and orange

How would different communities recover from the impact of natural disasters? The IN-CORE project seeks to find out.

News

Seid Koric stands with a number of colleagues with his award in his hands.

NCSA’s Seid Koric Earns National Engineering Honor

Seid Koric was awarded the 2025 Nancy DeLoye Fitzroy and Roland V. Fitzroy Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
A picture of a nuclear power plant.

Using AI to Monitor Inaccessible Locations of Nuclear Energy Systems

NCSA and Illinois Computes collaborated in research aiming to improve the monitoring systems of nuclear energy production.
Researchers, from left, agricultural and consumer economics professor Madhu Khanna, civil and environmental engineering professor Jeremy Guest, crop sciences professor DoKyoung Lee and their colleagues weighed the many factors that go into selecting a biofuels feedstock to supply aviation fuel and meet various environmental, land-use and policy related goals. Photo by Michelle Hassel

Finding the Best Bioenergy Crops for Sustainability

Professor Madhu Khanna from the Center for Digital Agriculture leads study to find the most economically and environmentally viable biofuel crops.
A picture of Larry Smarr.

Homecoming

NCSA celebrates the return visit of the Center’s founder, Larry Smarr, with a retrospective look at his many accomplishments in cyberinfrastructure and research computing.
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