INL National University Consortium – Annual Report 6 One of the main objectives of the National University Consortium is to bring INL and NUC university researchers together to address the nation’s most pressing research needs. In FY-18, 47 collaborative research 2 2 2 3 3 6 6 9 3 3 4 4 1 1 LDRD Direct Funded Externally-Funded Research Projects Research by Type in FY18 MIT NCSU Oregon State Ohio State UNM 9 13 13 3 3 3 3 LDRD Direct External Funding Type Funding by INL Directorate N&HS EES&T NS&T 13 MIT 11 NCSU 15 Oregon State 5 Ohio State 5 UNM Research by University in FY18 This chart shows all active research projects in FY 2018. Research funding includes direct, indirect and external funding, and all projects include a representative from INL and an NUC university. Some research projects are double counted if more than one NUC university was on a project, e.g., an Oregon State University-led project that also included North Carolina State University as a collaborator was counted for both OSU and NCSU. projects were active from a variety of funding sources including the Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP) and the Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation (NEAMS) Program Research Highlights