Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center Information

The Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC) is an interdisciplinary engineering research consortium designed to enable commercially relevant, pre-competitive research through collaboration and sustained partnerships between industry and academia. Headquartered at the University of California, Berkeley, BSAC launched in 1986 as the National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) for MEMS and NEMS. For the past 31 years, BSAC has successfully leveraged member financial investment, the resources of top ranked universities, researchers, labs, and a diverse group of industry leaders, to accelerate the knowledge base in emerging technological and manufacturing sectors and develop industry’s next generation of innovators. Today, as a graduated NSF center, BSAC enjoys an international reputation as the premier university-based MEMS research center driving innovative research in micro and nano-scale sensors, moving mechanical elements, microfluidics, materials, processes and systems.