História ERDC - Laboratório do US Engineers Corps (USACE)

Engineer Research and Development Center

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Engineer Research and Development Center ERDC-USACE-logo.tif

Established October 1999

Research type Research in support of the Army Corps of Engineers mission

Director Jeffery P. Holland

Address 3909 Halls Ferry Road

Location Vicksburg, Mississippi, U.S.A.

Coordinates: 32°17′59″N 90°51′51″W

Zip code

39180-6199

Website www.erdc.usace.army.mil

The Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) is a US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) laboratory organization whose mission is to "Provide science, technology, and expertise in engineering and environmental sciences in support of our Armed Forces and the Nation to make the world safer and better." The headquarters is located in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on the site of an antecedent organization, the Waterways Experiment Station.

Contents

1 History

2 List of ERDC laboratories

3 References

4 External links

History

In October 1999, the Corps of Engineers established a system laboratories, called the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC).[1] The ERDC was a consolidation of seven, pre-existing laboratories, the Coastal and Hydraulics, Environmental, Geotechnical and Structures, and Information Technology Laboratories in Vicksburg, Mississippi; the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory in Champaign, Illinois; the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, New Hampshire; and the Topographic Engineering Center in Alexandria, Virginia, which became the Army Geospatial Center and started reporting directly to the Corps of Engineers as of 2009. ERDC became a frequent winner of the Army Research Laboratory of the Year award, five times in its first eight years.[2]

List of ERDC laboratories

Topographic Engineering Center, co-located with the Army Geospatial Center at Alexandria, Virginia[3]

Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Vicksburg, Mississippi

Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, New Hampshire

Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, Champaign, Illinois

Environmental Laboratory, Vicksburg, Mississippi

Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory, Vicksburg, Mississippi

Information Technology Laboratory, Vicksburg, Mississippi

References

ERDC Public Affairs Office, ERDC History, retrieved 2011-01-09

ERDC Public Affairs Office (September 30, 2009), ERDC Named 2009 Army Research Laboratory of the Year -- 3rd Consecutive Year, retrieved 2011-01-09

Engineer Research and Development Center. "U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center (TEC), Alexandria, Va.". U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Retrieved 2013-05-23.

External links

ERDC Homepage

US Army Corps of Engineers webpage

ERDC DoD Supercomputing Resource Center (DSRC)

Survey number HAER MS-2 - Waterways Experiment Station, Hydraulics Laboratory, Halls Ferry Road, 2 miles south of I-20, Vicksburg, Warren