Energy Production and Infrastructure Center
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The Energy Production and Infrastructure Center on UNC Charlotte's Charlotte Research Institute
's Millenial Campus is a 200,000 Square-foot, $76 million building that will house classrooms, lecture halls, conference rooms, a clean room, high structural bay, Smart Grid facility, offices and laboratories for electrical, civil, environmental and computer research related to energy and energy delivery infrastructure. EPIC is a highly collaborative industry/education partnership that produces a technical workforce, advancements in technology for the global energy industry while supporting the Carolinas’ multi-state economic and energy security. Corporate partners include Duke Energy
, Siemens
, Shaw Group, and Areva
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Charlotte Research Institute
The Charlotte Research Institute is a partnership between the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and corporations in the region. The goal of CRI is to develop technology-based academic and business partnerships, ranging from consultation to onsite collaborative research...
's Millenial Campus is a 200,000 Square-foot, $76 million building that will house classrooms, lecture halls, conference rooms, a clean room, high structural bay, Smart Grid facility, offices and laboratories for electrical, civil, environmental and computer research related to energy and energy delivery infrastructure. EPIC is a highly collaborative industry/education partnership that produces a technical workforce, advancements in technology for the global energy industry while supporting the Carolinas’ multi-state economic and energy security. Corporate partners include Duke Energy
Duke Energy
Duke Energy , headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, is an energy company with assets in the United States, Canada and Latin America.-Overview:...
, Siemens
Siemens
Siemens may refer toSiemens, a German family name carried by generations of telecommunications industrialists, including:* Werner von Siemens , inventor, founder of Siemens AG...
, Shaw Group, and Areva
Areva
AREVA is a French public multinational industrial conglomerate headquartered in the Tour Areva in Courbevoie, Paris. AREVA is mainly known for nuclear power; it also has interests in other energy projects. It was created on 3 September 2001, by the merger of Framatome , Cogema and...
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