Masdar Institute

The Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, was a private, higher-education and research institute active from 2007 to 2017, when it merged with two other institutions, namely Petroleum Institute and Khalifa University, to become the multi-campus, sole-branded Khalifa University. Its previous structure, now part of Khalifa University, is now known as the Masdar City campus.

Masdar Institute of Science and Technology

معهد مصدر للعلوم والتكنولوجيا
Motto	Learning to change the world
Type	Private not-for-profit
Active	2007 (2007)–2017 (2017) (merged)[1]
Academic affiliation	Khalifa University
Provost	Behjat Al Yousuf (2015)[2]
Academic staff	85 (2017)[3]
Postgraduates	456 (2017)[3]
Location	Masdar City , Abu Dhabi , United Arab Emirates 24°25′57″N 54°37′07″E
Colours	Light Blue and White

The Masdar Institute was an integral part of the nonprofit side of the Masdar Initiative^[4] and was the first institution to occupy Masdar City. The Technology and Development Program at MIT provided scholarly assessment and advice to the Masdar Institute.^[5]

History

The Masdar Institute, established on 25 February 2007,^[6] was developed by Hip Hing Construction, with the architectural firm Foster and Partners.^[7][8] The first phase of the project was managed by CH2M Hill.^[9] As of 2017^[update], it employed 85 faculty members and had an enrollment of 456 students.^[3] Its establishment was part of a resource diversification policy for Abu Dhabi, along with Masdar City and the Zayed Future Energy Prize.^[10]

The same year, the institute completed a thermal energy storage project with the Norwegian company EnergyNest AS in Abu Dhabi, which was continued for improvement until 2017.^[11]

In 2017, Masdar merged with the Petroleum Institute and Khalifa University, to become the multi-campus and sole-branded Khalifa University.^[1]

Students

By 2017, 456 students were enrolled,^[3] and the institute had more than 550 alumni.^[12]

Faculty and research

Masdar Institute commenced teaching in September 2009. Its academics conducted research individually and in collaboration with several top-ranked universities, notably MIT, on subjects including water environment and health, advanced energy systems and microsystems, and advanced materials.^[13] By 2018, through the MI-MIT collaboration, 8 projects were completed and 11 one-to-one research and 3 flagship projects (larger research teams) were being executed.^[14] The collaboration had a scientific outreach that included 201 scientific peer-reviewed journal and book publications and 217 conference papers and presentations by April 2018.^[15]