The Center for Precision Metrology synthesizes the practical needs for the industrial community with the interdisciplinary experience of faculty project leaders from mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, manufacturing, engineering, computer science, chemistry, applied physics and business. These faculty have expertise encompassing machine metrology, precision controls, surface metrology applications and algorithms, computer aided tolerancing and factory control, virtual and dynamic simulation, nanometric instrumentation, electro-optics and total quality management. Industrial Alliance Project leaders, many of whom are leaders in developing National and International Standards for metrology, collaborate with industrial representatives to determine key projects that address generic and specific concerns in manufacturing metrology. Leveraging industrial and university resources, generic core research is funded by dues from corporate affiliate members which guarantee them a voice in guiding projects toward real world problems of beneficial generic value. Specific research is funded by contracts with industry to address unique or proprietary applications and development challenges and concerns.
Government funding is solicited for sponsoring fundamental and large scale metrology projects.
In order to sustain research, development, and training in metrology, facilities are maintained to manufacture components at the required levels. For critical measurement, many instruments are housed in a 1500 sq. Laboratories and offices currently over 25,000sq. Cameron Applied Research Center which also houses a class 10,000 microelectronics fabrication facility with maskmaking and thin film deposition capabilities and electron microscopy. Applied Research Center Room 136 University of North Carolina at Charlotte 9201 University City Blvd.