Facilities and Equipment

Research in the School of Engineering is conducted with state-of-the-art equipment housed in over 40,000 square feet of laboratory space. Our research equipment serves a dual purpose by contributing to the education of our undergraduate and graduate students. We pride ourselves on not only offering the best facilities in the field, but also in the incredible access that all of our students have to them.

Here are just a few of our research facilities:

• Biomaterials Laboratory
• Ceramics Processing Facilities and Pilot Plant
• Computer Modeling Laboratory
• Control and Communication Systems Laboratory
• Digital Signal Processing Laboratory
• Glass Processing Facilities
• Laboratory for Electronic Ceramics (LEC)
• Materials Joining and Processing Laboratory
• Mechanical Engineering Facilities
• MTS Materials Testing Laboratory
• Nanotechnology Pilot Plant
• Optical Microscopy Laboratories
• Polymers Characterization
• Powder Characterization Laboratory
• Spectroscopy Laboratories
• Surface Microstructural Analysis Laboratory (SMAL)
• Thermal Analysis Laboratory
• Thin-film Processing Facilities
• Thick-film Processing Facilities
• VSLI Design and Test Laboratory
• X-Ray Diffraction Laboratory