Binghamton University’s IEEC awarded an additional $10 million over a decade

VESTAL, N.Y. — Binghamton University’s Integrated Electronics Engineering Center (IEEC) will continue as a New York State Center for Advanced Technology (CAT).

Empire State Development’s (ESD) division of science, technology, and innovation (NYSTAR) extended the designation for an additional 10-year term, Binghamton University said in a news release issued Wednesday.

As a result of the re-designation, NYSTAR will provide the IEEC nearly $10 million in funding over the next decade.

Founded in 1991, the state has classified the IEEC as a CAT since the mid-1990s, the school said.

“We congratulate Binghamton and look forward to IEEC’s continued development of advanced electronics and cybersecurity for years to come,” Howard Zemsky, president, CEO and commissioner of Empire State Development, said in the Binghamton University release.

The IEEC is part of Binghamton University’s New York-designated Center of Excellence (COE) in small-scale systems integration and packaging (S3IP). It pursues research in electronics packaging in partnership with private industry.

The research that Binghamton University conducts with both large and small industries has led to “significant technological advances” in devices that are “smaller, faster and greener” than their predecessors, the school contends.

Current projects focus on topics such as cybersecurity, three-dimensional (3D) packaging, flexible electronics, power electronics, and batteries.

Since its founding, the IEEC has provided a more than 60-to-1 return on investment for New York, the university stipulates.

The IEEC and its partners generated more than $1 billion in statewide economic activity between 1994 and 2014, which are the latest figures available, it added.

Partner companies attribute the “creation and retention of 1,890 jobs” to activity that Binghamton’s CAT has generated.

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