Sustainable Development
Center of Economic Excellence

Inception:
2010

About the Center:
The Center’s mission is to advance sustainable development through technological innovation. This includes the development of new technologies, from optically-based chemical sensors to wireless networking platforms, as well as the development of new environmental and ecological models designed to support real-time monitoring and management of natural and built environments.

The Center will build on the success of the Intelligent River Project, which focuses on the development of hardware, software, and modeling infrastracture to support real-time management of water resources across South Carolina. More than 75 Clemson faculty members and students in areas such as wetland ecology, hydrology, landscape architecture, computer sciences, computer engineering, and environmental toxicology are collaborating on this project.

Funding Level:
$4 million

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