MPI Connects University and Industry

Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Metal Processing Institute (MPI) is the largest industry-university alliance in North America. MPI conducts research in four research centers in the areas of metal casting (at the Advanced Casting Research Center, or ACRC), heat treating (at the Center for Heat Treating Excellence, or CHTE), resource recovery and recycling (at the Center for Resource Recovery and Recycling, or CR3), and most recently materials processing data (at the Center for Materials Processing Data, or CMPD). Each of the four centers has multiple industry members, which pay an annual membership fee to support pre-competitive research by MPI faculty members, students and research associates. Read more here.