Institute for Sustainability and Circular Economy

 Welcome to the Institute for Sustainability and Circular Economy (ISCE). We are dedicated to developing innovative solutions that address some of the world’s most pressing challenges. Our research pioneers revolutionary technologies that transform waste into valuable resources—supporting future generations and protecting our planet. ISCE is advancing efforts across the United States to shift from a cycle of resource loss to a thriving circular economy.

ISCE serves as a university-wide platform that catalyzes sustainable solutions via an engineered-system approach. Simaltaneuosly, ISCE connects TTU academic units, centers, and programs that address topics related to sustainability. 

We proudly boast a multi-disciplinary approach to sustainabilty, because the answer to lasting sustainabilty is collaborative and multifacted. We are a group of TTU researchers, staff, and students who are working together toward the common goal of a sustainable circular economy. The Institute is headquartered in the Maddox Engineering Research Center, but has laboratories and faculty across campus in a multitude of disciplines from Chemical Engineering to Plant & Soil Science to the Center for Water Law & Policy.

Technologies developed by ISCE will integrate nanotechnology, electrochemical science, and data science for modularity, synthesis and separations. The goal of these technologies is to resolve economic pressures, logistics issues, public and industry acceptance, as well as regulatory and safety issues. ISCE will train the next generation of engineers and technical workforce at the intersection of engineering, agricultural sciences, and environmental science with the skills to advance sustainability and the circular economy.