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Case Western Reserve, University of Pittsburgh to open joint facility to help companies produce more reliable, durable products

The MDS-relay center aims to connect materials data science research to industry.

CLEVELAND — *Editor's Note: The video in the player above is from a previous report.

Case Western Reserve University and the University of Pittsburgh have decided to join forces to open The Center for Materials Data Science for Reliability and Degradation or MDS-rely Center. 

The $3 million center, set to open later this year, will uses cutting edge data-science and materials research to help companies make more reliable and durable products.

"One of the Center’s primary goals is to help industry become more efficient—especially in costly fabrication materials. The industrial and government lab partners would also be able to recruit researchers and students from the two universities," according to a press release on the partnership.

The center is supported  by a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the remainder from fees paid by member companies and other organizations 

The center not only hopes to produce breakthrough research, but also serve as hiring pipeline for Case Western Reserve and Pitt students and graduates.

The MDS-Rely Center will rely on the combined research power of roughly 40 faculty members from both institutions. Both groups will work with partners to understand how a material’s structural, electronic, chemical and optical properties change over time, informing both what the materials can do and how their function will change over time.

“Northeast Ohio and Western Pennsylvania are hotbeds for materials manufacturing. The opportunity to work with these companies and to bring to them state-of-the art data-science techniques to improve materials performance and reliability will make a real difference in the long-term competitiveness of our regions' companies—and the region itself,” said Grant Goodrich, executive director of Great Lakes Energy Institute at Case Western Reserve. 

MDS-Rely has a dozen committed members, some of which have already joined. It expects to continue growing each year as additional organizations join.

The facility also offers both universities a new vehicle to accelerate the impact of basic research and a way to expose aspiring researchers to real-world applications of their work.

For more information, on the center to find out how to get involved, click here.

*Editor's Note: The video in the player above is from a previous report.

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