Welcome to the Engineering Research Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power.

The Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power is funded with $15 million from the National Science Foundation, $3 million in combined donations from participating companies and $3 million from participating universities.

The core universities participating in the Center are the University of Minnesota, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Purdue University of West Lafayette, Indiana, and Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. The University of Minnesota will serve as the program's headquarters. Outreach universities and organizations are the Milwaukee School of Engineering, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University, the National Fluid Power Association, Science Museum of Minnesota , and Project Lead the Way.