NASA Research Park Partnerships

ACADEMIC PARTNERS

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
In 2002, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) established its west coast campus for science and engineering research and education in the NASA Research Park. CMU rehabilitated historic structures in the Shenandoah Plaza historic district of the NASA Research Park to house classrooms and research facilities. This West Coast Campus establishes Carnegie Mellon's presence in Silicon Valley with academic programs in software engineering and software management as well as with research programs focusing on software engineering, robotics, open source, and various other individual projects.

CMU's academic programs are designed to teach technologists or software creators to think in ways that lead to successful products, programs, and business. CMU offer graduate degrees in software engineering and software management. Both part-time MS programs are tailored to fit the schedules of busy working professionals.

CMU's research programs are focused on topics of great interest to Silicon Valley and NASA: software engineering, new business paradigms, and robotics. Their current projects include continuing Test Bed Research, Smart Spaces, the Center for Open Source Investigation, Quantitative Social Network Analysis and Innovation Diffusion, the NASA Ames Intelligent Robotics Group, low-cost robotics platforms, Human-Robot Site Survey, and the Global Connection Project.

Foundation of California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB)
The CSUMB research team leads the earth science community in ecological forecasting. Research currently being performed includes the development of an environmental monitoring network and the discovery of seasonality in the Amazon rain forest in Brazil.

Foothill and De Anza Community College District (FHDA)
In 2000, the chancellors and presidents of three public higher education institutions – the Junior College systems of California, the University of California, and the State University of California – established a partnership to deliver education services in science, technology, engineering and mathematics at the NRP.

Since 1970, the Foothill-De Anza District has conducted a highly successful grant-funded internship program at NASA Ames. The district now seeks to build on this success by creating and supporting new educational programs in a state-of-the-art facility to be constructed in the NRP.

Santa Clara University (SCU)
Located in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, Santa Clara University offers a rigorous undergraduate curriculum in the arts and sciences, business, and engineering. It has nationally recognized graduate and professional schools in business, law, engineering, pastoral ministries, and counseling psychology and education.

University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), Silicon Valley Center
The University of California system (UC), led by the Santa Cruz campus (UCSC), located its “Silicon Valley Center” in the NRP. This UC regional center will allow students and researchers to work side-by-side with NASA Ames scientists on multidisciplinary and collaborative projects in leading edge disciplines of biotechnology, information technology and nanotechnology. The UC Silicon Valley Center will eventually encompass 600,000 square feet of classroom and office space. UCSC also plans to build a Bio-Info-Nano Research & Development Convergence Lab with classrooms.

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