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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