
Illinois Plasma Institute
2109 S. Oak St. Champaign, IL
The Illinois Plasma Institute (IPI) is an initiative of the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. IPI’s founding was driven by a desire to rethink existing pathways to commercialization of new technologies developed in academic research settings. Combining the best of both worlds, IPI provides a space where forward-thinking industrial partners can pair their research and development staff with academic researchers closer to the underlying science behind a new technology. Working in concert on a shared platform, advances it makes in the laboratory may be implemented on production-level equipment, shortening the time to adoption in high-volume manufacturing.
Complementary to cooperation in the lab, assignees from industrial partners also find easy access to the College’s Master’s of Engineering in Plasma Engineering, a professional Master’s program designed to prepare workers from a wide variety of technical fields for the unique opportunities that plasma processing has to offer.
The Illinois Plasma Institute at Research Park
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- IPI Director David Ruzic featured on the UIUC Talk Show
- IPI Director David Ruzic retires from teaching
- What does the IPI do? segment in the News Gazette
- LytEn joins IPI on $2.1 million deal
- IPI secures research agreement with Tokyo Electron Ltd.
- Illinois Plasma Institute launches with $1.75 million investment from Japanese Company