Masdar Institute

The Masdar Institute, established on 25 February 2007, was developed by Hip Hing Construction, with the architectural firm Foster and Partners. The first phase of the project was managed by CH2M Hill. , it employed 85 faculty members and had an enrollment of 456 students. 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. Also in 2017, Masdar merged with the Petroleum Institute and Khalifa University, to become the multi-campus and sole-branded Khalifa University. ==Students==

By 2017, 456 students were enrolled, ==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. 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. 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. ==References==