About Us

ASPIRE is an NSF-funded Engineering Research Center (ERC) headquartered at Utah State University and operated through strategic partnerships with core partners Purdue University, University of Colorado Boulder, The University of Texas at El Paso and the University of Auckland New Zealand. Additional affiliated partners include Colorado State University, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Virginia Tech and Cornell University. Global partnerships with industry, state agencies, and non-profits include more than 50 companies and organizations across the transportation and electric utility related industries, and key strategic partnerships with four national labs, Idaho National Laboratory, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Argonne National Laboratory. The mission of the ASPIRE ERC is to improve health and quality of life for everyone by catalyzing sustainable and equitable electrification across the transportation industries. The mission of the Cornell ASPIRE (Advancing Sustainability through Powered Infrastructure for Roadway Electrification) Student Association (Cornell ASA) is to provide a collaborative forum for a diverse number of students enrolled at Cornell University to benefit from, and support the mission of, the ASPIRE ERC. https://aspire.usu.edu/about/index