Technology

The Knoxville-Oak Ridge region is home to a rare combination of technology assets.  The Oak Ridge National Lab, the nation's largest multidisciplinary research lab, and the University of Tennessee, a Carnegie Foundation Research Institution, are the cornerstones of the technology strengths of the region.  These institutions provide a unique opportunity with their user research facilities and their scientific and technical talent for companies considering a new location.

U.S. Department of Energy

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Y-12 National Security Complex

University of Tennessee

6 Core Competencies

1) Materials Science

• Condensed Matter Sciences
• Chemical Sciences and Physics
• Metals and Ceramics
• Inorganic Membranes

2) Computational Science

• Networking and Computing Technologies
• Computer Science and Mathematics
• Computational Sciences and Engineering

3) Biotechnology

• Mammalian Genetics and Genomics
• Computational Biology
• Biophysics and Biomedical Technologies
• Labs for Comparative / Functional Genomics

4) Energy & Environment

• Nuclear Security Technologies
• Nuclear System Analysis, Design and Safety
• Fuels, Isotopes and Nuclear Materials
• Environmental Technology: analyze change, stress and resource use

5) Homeland Security

• Special Nuclear Material Detection
• Security Technologies
• Vulnerability Assessments

6) Machining & Manufacturing Technologies

• National Prototype Center
• Multi-Axis High-Speed Machining
• Large Chamber-Scanning Electron Microscope (specimens up to 1M)
• Metrology (NVLAP Certified)
• Microwave Casting / Melting
• Analytical Chemistry
  

Knoxville-Oak Ridge Technology Corridor

• High-bandwidth telecommunications infrastructure
• Digital Crossing, a world-class data center
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the nation's largest multidisciplinary research lab
• Ranked among the nation's top 100 most-wired cities
• 55,000 college and university students, including over 10,000 in engineering, mathematics and science
• 5,000 PhDs
• 50,000 technical workers
• Research parks
  

University of Tennessee

• The University of Tennessee, a Carnegie Foundation Research Institution
• 26,400 students on the flagship Knoxville campus
• Highly ranked programs in Engineering and Business Administration
• One of the nation's leading agricultural science and veterinary colleges
• Governor's Chair program
• new $125-million bioenergy research center that will search for ways to produce alternatives to gasoline
• UT-Knoxville brought in $126.7 million in grants for fiscal year 2006
  

UT - Battelle

• Partner with Battelle Memorial Institute to manage the Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) research facility will allow researchers to use neutrons to understand the most fundamental structures and processes of matter
• UT & ORNL have created joint institutes in areas such as biological sciences, computational sciences, heavy ion research, nanophase materials sciences and neutron sciences
• Innovation Valley Center for Entrepreneurship
• The Center for Transportation Research is a hub connecting universities across the Southeast