• Control of Flow in Manufacturing, USU, pre-Center candidate assigned a business team. Applying computational fluid dynamics to improve manufacturing processes including particle sorting and electrical discharge machining.

The business teams will feature serial entrepreneurs, serial CEOs and experienced technology executives, and the program is looking for technical business management and entrepreneurs to serve as consultants, Davis said.

Martin Frey, co-director of the state Department of Business and Economic Development, said the focus of the Centers program in the past has been moving from research to technology, but that will change to a technology-to-market emphasis.

The Centers program began in 1986. Frey said it has featured 100 centers, and 64 companies have been created.

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