This year the University of Utah teamed up with other leading research universities and companies under the United States Department of Energy to create a new manufacturing initiative called Reducing Embodied-Energy and Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) Institute.
The U’s Department of Metallurgical Engineering, other groups within the College of Mines and Earth Sciences, the Global Change and Sustainability Center and other U programs came together to cooperate with the national manufacturing alliance for recycling and remanufacturing.
In this quest for efficiency, the U works with groups such as the Idaho National Lab, Argonne National Lab and the Unversity of Illinois.