Miller Engineering & Research Corporation (MERC) is proud to announce a strategic partnership with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Established in 1966, UMBC is an American public research institution with an enrollment of 13,640 as of Fall 2016 spread across 48 undergraduate majors and 60 graduate programs.

UMBC is ranked among the Top 20 US universities in NASA funding. At NASA Goddard, UMBC maintains NASA-funded centers that include the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET), the Goddard Planetary Heliophysics Institute (GPHI), and the Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science and Technology (CRESST).