Welcome to the Center for Computational Materials Design, an NSF supported Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC). As a collaborative effort between The Pennsylvania State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology, the CCMD embodies the expertise of over 40 research faculty and 25 graduate students, post-docs, and visiting scientists in seven different academic departments.
The mission of the CCMD is to educate the next generation of scientists and engineers in the emerging field of materials design. Member organizations benefit directly from the results of research projects, and from the long reaching value derived from mentoring students as prospective employees.
Within the CCMD, the complementary expertise of Penn State and Georgia Tech is brought together in the following way:
- Computational thermodynamics and kinetics
- Process-structure relations (phase fields)
- Databases
- Computational structure-property relations
- Microstructure representation and characterization
- Systems-based, distributed, collaborative robust materials design
