Technology

The Knoxville-Oak Ridge Innovation Valley area is one of the nation’s premier science and technology centers, thanks to world-class research institutions supported by an advanced telecommunications infrastructure. The region is home to:

• The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) the nation’s largest multidisciplinary science and energy laboratory, managed by UT-Battelle
• The University of Tennessee a Carnegie Foundation Research-Extensive Institution
• The Y-12 National Security Complex a technology institution with highly advanced capabilities that is helping to address the security challenges facing the U.S. and the world
• Oak Ridge Association Universities (ORAU) a university consortium that leverages the strengths of 99 research institutions to advance science and education

University of Tennessee

• 27,000 students at the flagship Knoxville campus
• $1-million Harlan D. Mills/Ericsson Chair of Excellence in Software Engineering
• Highly regarded programs in Nuclear Engineering and Business Administration
• One of the nation’s leading agricultural science and veterinary colleges
• Partner with Battelle Memorial Institute to manage Oak Ridge National Laboratory in lab management and research
• One of six U.S. institutions to lead the Internet II Initiative

World Class Technology Resources

Oak Ridge Science & Technology

• Tennessee Solar Institute
• Advanced Computing Initiatives
• Advanced Wireless Technology Initiative
• 16 R&D User Facilities
• Unique Congressionally designated National
• Prototype Center
• Spallation Neutron Source
• National Transportation Research Center
• Advanced RF and Plasma R&D Facilities
• SEMATECH Sanctioned Test Facilities providing
• technical and manufacturing assistance
• Semiconductor Industry Support Service Expertise
• Unique Environmental Management Expertise

Oak Ridge National Laboratory User Facilities

• Bioprocessing Research Facility
• Buildings Technology Center
• Californium User Facility
• Center for Nanophase Materials
• Computational Center for Industrial Innovation
• Cooling, Heating and Power Integration Laboratory
• Fuels, Engines and Emissions Research Center
• High Flux Isotope Reactor
• High Temperature Materials Laboratory
• Holifeld Radioactive Ion Beam Facility
• Metals-Processing Users Facility
• Mouse Genetics Research Facility
• National Transportation Research Center
• Oak Ridge National Environmental Research Park
• Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator
• Physical Properties Research Facility
• Power Electronics and Electric Machinery Research Facility
• Shared Research Equipment Collaborative Research Center
• Spallation Neutron Source
• Surface Modifcation and Characterization Collaborative Research Center