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Fluid Power Net International (FPNI) is a worldwide Network of Research R&D Fluid Power Laboratories. The objective of FPNI is to develop close research co-operation between member Laboratories and Industry and provide research facilities world-wide. The multinational character of FPNI and the specialized skills of the various Laboratories are well suited to meet the challenges ahead for fluid power.

Foundation for Cross-Connection Control and Hydraulic Research

IIHR - Hydroscience & Engineering College of Engineering, The University of Iowa IIHR faculty, research engineers, and students conduct research in the broad fields of fluid mechanics, air and water resources, and environmental hydraulics. IIHR is unique among hydraulic research laboratories for its in-house capabilities in computational simulations and laboratory modeling and for field observational research.

Welcome to the Institute for Fluid Power Drives and Controls at Aachen University. Our pages offer you information on our present research activities, our equipment and our educational duties. You will find contact partners for your questions and may search and order.

Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Welcome to Fluid Machinery Group, the equipment for moving fluids. Pumps can send drinking water to your home or feed power station boilers or move chemicals around a process plant. Compressors can provide air for power tools or change gasses to liquids for easier transport. Fans can blow cool air into your office or ventilate the Channel Tunnel. We also handle turbines to generate power from rivers, the wind or any process where fluids have energy to spare.

The International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR), founded in 1935, is a worldwide independent organisation of engineers and water specialists working in fields related to hydraulics and its practical application.

Milwaukee School of Engineering Fluid Power Institute (FPI)
What's the best way to make sure a system works properly? By running it through the gamut of endurance tests it will face while working. That's just what the Fluid Power InstituteTM (FPI) does for industry leaders who make fluid power, motion control and other related components and systems. One of the first centers of its kind in the country, FPI remains a pioneer in motion control and fluid power education. FPI's approach uses mechanical, electrical, computer and software engineering and also utilizes MSOE's Rapid Prototyping Center. In addition to endurance testing, the FPI runs performance testing and environmental evaluations as well as component and system design, modeling and simulation, contamination and reliability analyses, system integration and prototyping and develops and delivers various education programs. The FPI has expanded into electrohydraulic interface studies and currently has active programs in fluid power systems design, applications of fluid power to manufacturing, computerized fluid dynamics (CFD), electromagnetic actuators and sensors, component evaluation and filtration and contamination testing.

National Fluid Power Association
NFPA is a forum where all channel partners - manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, customers and educators work together to:

• advance fluid power technology,
• strengthen the industry and
• foster members' success.

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. Our vision is to create new fluid power technology that is compact and efficient. This will lead to significant fuel savings as the new technologies are implemented in existing and new applications. The new technologies will enable applications and new products requiring portable, high-power, untethered operations over long time periods. As our vision is realized, both short term and long term advantages will accrue. Improved efficiency will greatly reduce petroleum consumption and pollution in our economy, recovering the Center's cost many times over. Improved compactness will enable fluid power to perform tasks that are not presently possible, spawning whole new industries.

The Fluid Power Educational Foundation is almost 50 years old. It was started to facilitate charitable contributions to Colleges and Universities A 501-C(3), the FPEF set up an active program to develop and support a network of Key Schools, through curriculum guidance, help in acquiring hardware and offering scholarships. Our first Educational Coordinator was John Pippenger. The activities of the FPEF are directed by a Board of Directors from Fluid Power Manufacturers and Distributors. They serve pro-bono and in fact pay their own expenses involved in meetings. In the early 90s it was determined that we needed to offer additional aspects to the educational process. We recognized that a successful technical College education program needed a sparkplug Professor, a supportive administration and a group of advisors in their geographic region to assure that the program serves the needs of the community. The FPEF Board recognized that industry needed to do more to attract outstanding high school students. As a result we began to support student competitions and developed our Key High School program.

The Fluid Power Safety Institute
Our mission is to act as a strategic alliance for the promotion and implementation of extensive methodologies based on occupational safety through training and certification of personnel within industries utilizing fluid power for maintenance, design, sales, and engineering. Our purpose in executing practical task-specific knowledge on accident prevention is twofold: to avert occupational hazards in areas of construction, agriculture, aviation, military, forestry, mining, and manufacturing where fluid power is used; and to attain a firm commitment from related organizations to acknowledge this energy resource as a recognized potential occupational hazard that warrants a continuous educational effort.

The International Fluid Power Society will facilitate and promote the advancement of technology and professionalism of the Fluid Power & Motion Control Industry through Awareness, Education and Certification. The International Fluid Power Society was started in Detroit, MI in 1960 by a group a dedicated professionals to support the technology and the industry. Click on History for more information. Our members and supporters represent diverse communities. Fluid power manufacturers, distributors, service organizations and users of fluid power.

The National Science Foundation-sponsored Engineering Research Centers (ERCs) are a group of interdisciplinary centers located at universities all across the United States, each in close partnership with industry. Each ERC provides an environment in which academe and industry can collaborate in pursuing strategic advances in complex engineered systems and systems-level technologies that have the potential to spawn whole new industries or to radically transform the product lines, processing technologies, or service delivery methodologies of current industries. Activity within ERCs lies at the interface between the discovery-driven culture of science and the innovation-driven culture of engineering. The centers provide the intellectual foundation for industry to collaborate with faculty and students on resolving generic, long-range challenges, producing the knowledge base needed for steady advances in technology and their speedy transition to the marketplace.

United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Hydraulic Engineering Research Unit
The Hydraulic Engineering research Unit has been in continuous operation since it was established in 1940. The laboratory has had a major impact on soil and water conservation engineering and is recognized nationally and internationally as a significant contributor of sound design criteria for soil and water conservation structures and channels. Most notable is the pioneer work in the design concepts for vegetated waterways. The Hydraulic Engineering Research Unit conducts research to: Develop criteria for the design and analysis of structures and channels for the conveyance, storage, disposal, and measurement of runoff waters; Develop fundamental knowledge of the hydraulics of surface flows for use in planning measures needed for control of water for flood prevention, pollution abatement, and/or assessing the safety of existing measures; and Determine the ability of vegetation and/or various natural and manufactured materials to prevent erosion when used in the management of runoff waters.