CISA3-CHEI

The Cultural Heritage Engineering Initiative (CHEI, https://chei.ucsd.edu) at UC San Diego, brings the power of student-driven engineering to the study and preservation of monuments, historic structures, archaeological sites, art and other artifacts. CHEI has created a comprehensive methodology and toolbox, integrating systems for data collection, processing, analysis, visualization, and dissemination, with expertise in field deployment, training, and outreach.

CHEI evolved from the Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology (CISA3, ), launched in February 2007 to lead the development of tools and techniques to reconstruct and analyze the history of great works art, monumental structures as well as archaeological sites and artifacts. The center explores methodologies and develops solutions to problems of art conservation, while training a new generation of interdisciplinary experts to work in this emerging field.