About Us
We Have Solutions
Providing our customers with real, sustainable solutions has been Mercer Engineering Research Center’s (MERC) core goal since the beginning. As a nonprofit provider of engineering and technology services, MERC offers a unique combination of technical and program management expertise, combined with a strong customer support culture. MERC’s full-time technical staff, augmented as necessary by engineering students and an outstanding engineering school faculty, provides cost-effective, responsive support to our customers.
MERC has developed a highly-qualified professional staff, complex tools and test equipment, and extensive technical capability in fields including:
- Automated Test Station Enhancement, Interface Test Adapters, Test Set Programs
- Automated Test Stations
- Avionic Systems EMI/EMC Design Review, Pre-Certification Screening
- Avionic Systems Life Cycle Roadmaps and Business Case Analysis
- Avionic Systems Technology Insertion and Upgrades
- Avionic/Electronic Systems Re-Engineering (3F Replacement)
- Avionics Systems Qualification and Flight Test Engineering
- Closed Loop Operational Testing
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
- Corrosion Analysis, Tracking, and Mitigation
- Crack and Corrosion History Database Development and Sustainment
- Damage Tolerance Analysis (DTA)
- Database-Driven Web and Client Application Development
- Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortage (DMSMS)
- Electronic Warfare/Electronic Combat
- Electronics/Avionics Systems Engineering
- Energy Systems Engineering and Management
- Equivalent Flight Hours (EFH) Development and Tracking
- Fatigue Analysis
- Fixture and Tooling Analysis and Design
- Fleet Management
- Gunfire/Blast Modeling and Analysis
- Health and Usage Monitoring (HUMS)
- Human Factors and Biomechanics
- Individual Aircraft Tracking Programs (IATP)
- Industrial Controls Systems Design, Development and Deployment
- Industrial Robotics
- Integrated Support Stations for Avionic Systems, Design, Development, Integration, Commissioning
- ISO50001 Energy Systems Management Consultancy
- Level III Technical Data Package Development
- Loads / Environment Spectra Surveys (L/ESS)
- Mechanical and Material Testing and Instrumentation
- Modeling and Simulation (RAMP and RCAN)
- Narrow Artificial Intelligence Insertion
- Nondestructive Inspection
- Obsolescence and Reliability Engineering
- Prototype Design and Fabrication
- Rapid Prototyping (3D printing)
- Reverse Engineering
- Risk Management Framework Application and Guidance
- Service Life Development
- Structural Analysis
- Structural Repair Design and Validation
- Technology Insertion
- Test Planning
- TO Development
- Weapons System Integrity Program Support (ASIP, MECSIP, FSIP, AVIP)
- Work Stand Design, Analysis, and Fabrication
MERC’s commitment to customer support is continually demonstrated through our motto: “Where real problems meet real solutions.”