Wright State is home to seven Centers of Excellence, which partner with businesses and the military, generating new jobs, millions of dollars in economic impact, and savings for industry.

The centers include:

• Neuroscience Institute, which is combining resources with Premier Health Partners to create a transformational environment in which teams of doctors and scientists work shoulder to shoulder to discover new treatments for diseases and injuries of the nervous system
• National Center for Medical Readiness, a 52-acre site in which military and civilian first responders are trained in the medical response to acts of terrorism and natural disasters
• Human-Centered Innovation, which plays a pivotal role in human-performance research for the Defense Department by using faculty members with expertise in engineering, computer science, biology, psychology, mathematics, and health
• Knowledge-Enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis), among the largest academic groups in Semantic Web and associated topics in the world for research, development, and application of semantic and knowledge-enabled techniques.
• Ohio Center of Excellence for Product Reliability and Optimization (CEPRO), advancing the science of product development and manufacturing to achieve ever-higher performance.
• Collaborative Education, Leadership, and Innovation in the Arts (CELIA), a Center for innovative projects and artistic products through collaboration.
• Micro-Air Vehicle Research

Wright State University is home to over 3,500 master’s and doctoral level graduate students.  During the 2010-11 academic year, the Graduate School conferred 1,275 master’s and 57 doctoral degrees.  Our diverse student population included over 400 international students from over 40 countries.

National recognition

Dr. Andrew Hsu came to Wright State in 2010 after serving as associate dean for research and graduate programs at the Purdue School of Engineering and as the founding director of the Richard G. Lugar Center for Renewable Energy at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He was a 2008-09 Fellow of the American Council on Education and worked with President Gordon Gee of Ohio State for an academic year. Before joining academia, Hsu worked for 11 years at NASA and Rolls Royce as an aerospace engineer. 

Hsu wants to build on the tremendous strides that have already been made in Wright State’s graduate programs. “When I was recruited for this position and I arrived for the interview, I came to know that Wright State wants to be the most innovative university in Ohio and one of the most innovative in the country,” Hsu said. “Talking to the faculty members on campus, I can see that’s really happening.” Striving for cutting-edge innovation is an ambition he shares with faculty and administrative colleagues across the campus, and he hopes to build on this energy to raise Wright State's graduate programs to new levels of national and international prominence.