The mission of the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences is to provide the infrastructure and intellectual leadership for developing outstanding interdisciplinary programs in research and graduate study in computational sciences and engineering and in information technology.

The Institute currently supports nine research centers and numerous research groups. It also supports the Computational and Applied Mathematics Program (CAM), a graduate degree program leading to the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computational and Applied Mathematics, the ICES Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and a program for visiting scholars through the J. Tinsley Oden Faculty Fellowship Research Fund.