Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Metal Processing Institute (MPI) is the largest industry-university alliance in North America. MPI conducts research in four research centers in the areas of metal casting (at the Advanced Casting Research Center, or ACRC), heat treating (at the Center for Heat Treating Excellence, or CHTE), resource recovery and recycling (at the Center for Resource Recovery and Recycling, or CR^₃), and most recently materials processing data (at the Center for Materials Processing Data, or CMPD). > Read more