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The Research centers at school of engineering and applied science are served as the hub of Harvard's research efforts and educational programs in engineering, applied sciences, and technology. There has multidisciplinary programs, free of departmental boundaries, range from research centers to emerging areas such as nanoscience and bioengineering to joint initiatives in medicine and business. In the era of integrationist science and engineering, Harvard offer a powerful way to use concepts developed in engineering-oriented disciplines to advance the frontiers of knowledge.

The emerging areas of expertise at Harvard include Computational Biology and Neuroscience, Computer Systems Research, Electrical Engineering and Devices, Environment and Energy, Nanoscale Science and Engineering, New Materials and Structures, Physics and Engineering of Complex Systems, Quantum Science and Technology, Scientific Computing and Information Technology, Scientific Concepts and New Tools, Systems Biology, Biophysics, and Bioengineering.

To learn more about the types of research and projects faculty and graduate students:

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Primary Research Areas

• Applied Mathematics
• Applied Physics (including materials science)
• Bioengineering
• Computer Science
• Electrical Engineering
• Environmental Sciences and Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering

Research Centers

There are multidisciplinary and innovative research centers, including NSF-sponsored sites. The centers provide the facilities, tools, and expertise for our faculty, students, and collaborators to conduct reserach on topics ranging from nanotechnology to quantum physics.

• Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS)
  CNS is a member of the National Science Foundation’s National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN). They initiative to create a national network of world-class facilities available to all researchers with conducting research in any aspect of the large and growing field of nanoscale science.
  http://www.cns.fas.harvard.edu/
  


• The Harvard Center for Microfluidic and Plasmonic Systems (MIPS)
  MIPS brings together research in microfluidics, nanofabrication, biosensors, plasmon devices, optoelectronics, bottom-up nanofabrication and plasmonic fluorescent sensors.
  http://www.seas.harvard.edu/mips/
  


• Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology (KIBST)
  KIBST collaborate with a wide range of scientists, including physicists, engineers, chemists, biologists as well as HMS clinicians to address fundamental questions about the behavior and functioning of biological systems; to foster applications and new technologies; and
  provides a way for the tool-developers to work with the tool-users.
  http://kavli.harvard.edu/index.html

• Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC)
  NSEC combines "top down" and "bottom up" approaches to construct novel electronic and magnetic devices with nanoscale sizes and understand their behavior, including quantum phenomena. NSEC is a collaboration among Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of California—Santa Barbara, and the Museum of Science—Boston with participation by Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), the University of Basel (Switzerland), the University of Tokyo (Japan), and the Brookhaven, Oak Ridge, and the Sandia National Laboratories.
  http://www.nsec.harvard.edu/


• Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC)
  MRSEC is the focus of interdisciplinary materials research. There has four collaborative Interdisciplinary Research Groups; Multiscale Mechanics of Films and Interfaces; Engineering Materials and Techniques for Biological Studies at Cellular Scales; Interface-Mediated Assembly of Soft Materials; and Materials and Physiology
  http://www.mrsec.harvard.edu/index.html
  


• Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS)
  CRCS brings computer scientists together with a broad range of researchers, including economists, psychologists, legal scholars, ethicists, neuroscientists, and other academic colleagues.
  http://crcs.seas.harvard.edu/
  

Resource: Harvard.edu