A mayor instrumentation effort is being carried out at the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Chile. A Center for Astro-Engineering (AIUC) was created in 2009. It is the first of its class in Chile. The Centre has two laboratories (instrumentation and computing) and an astronomical service area. In collaboration with several groups in Europe, USA and Japan, new concept instruments are being developed. These include wide field Adaptive Optics and NIR spectrographs for the new generatiion of giant telesscopes in Chile (E-ELT, GMT, TAO, etc.). Here we present the Centre structure, research activities, science cases, instrument concepts and schedule planes.
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