LABS and Centers
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Alternative/Renewable Energy Laboratories and Water
Treatment / Applied Surfactant Research Laboratories
Primary Contact: Hatice Gecol, Chemical Engineering
Major Focus: Process, product, materials development and related chemical analysis.
Bioresource Renewable Energy Laboratory
Primary Contact: Charles Coronella, Chemical Engineering
Major Focus: Drying studies of various renewable feedstocks and can be used for pyrolysis studies of dried materials.
Electron Microscopy and Microanalysis Facility
Primary Contact: Manoranjan Misra, Materials Science & Engineering
Major Focus: Scanning Electron Microscopy, Transmission Electron Microscopy of nanomaterials, electronic materials, biomaterials,
metals, alloys and polymers.
Computer Science and Engineering
Computer Networking Laboratory (CNL)
Primary Contact: Murat Yuksel, Computer Science & Engineering
Computer Vision Laboratory (CVL)
Primary Contacts: George Bebis and Mircea Nicolescu, Computer Science & Engineering
Major Focus: Object recognition, visual motion analysis, 3-D reconstruction, face detection/recognition, biometrics, tracking and pose estimation projects of human body/head/ hand/eye-gaze,
surveillance and human activity recognition.
Engineering Access Grid Node
Primary Contact: Yaakov Varol, Computer Science & Engineering
Major Focus: Multimedia large-format displays, presentation and interactive environments, and interfaces to Griddleware and visualization environments.
Evolutionary Computing Systems Laboratory
Primary Contact: Sushil Louis, Computer Science & Engineering
Major Focus: Evolutionary computing based machine learning and its
applications to military training and decision support, computer
gaming, and modeling and inversion.
Primary Contacts: Philip H. Goodman M.D., Fred Harris, and Monica Nicolescu, Computer Science & Engineering
Neuroevolution and Behavior Laboratory (NEBL)
Primary Contact: Bobby D. Bryant, Computer Science & Engineering
Major Focus: Applications of artificial neural networks as “brains” for
autonomous intelligent agents in game and simulation environments.
Robotics Research Laboratory
Primary Contact: Monica Nicolescu, Computer Science & Engineering
Major Focus: Mobile and articulated robotics, machine learning, human-robot interaction, robot control, biologically inspired robotics,
and human activity recognition.
Software Engineering Laboratory
Primary Contact: Sergiu Dascalu, Computer Science & Engineering
Major Focus: Software specification, management of large software projects (software metrics metrics visualization, dynamic systems models, and project planning) and environments for software develop-
ment.
Virtual Reality Laboratory
Primary Contact: Fred Harris, Computer Science & Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Advanced Geotechnical Testing Laboratory
Primary Contact: Gary M. Norris, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Major Focus: Complex stress path testing with feedback of soils under drained and undrained conditions; cyclic triaxial testing; flex wall
permeability measurements.
Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)
Primary Contact: Ian Buckle, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Major Focus: Response of structures to earthquakes and other dynamic loads, component and system studies (bridge and building systems, non-structural components and assemblies), innovative and
conventional materials, shake table and hybrid simulation of
earthquake loads, shared-use access using NEES telepresence
facilities.
Environmental Engineering Laboratories
Primary Contact: Eric Marchand, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Major Focus: Water quality analyses, bench-and-pilot-scale testing, large scale hydraulic flume studies, surface and colloid
characterization.
Pavements/Materials Research Laboratory
Primary Contact: Peter Sebaaly, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Major Focus: Asphalt mixtures characterization, laboratory and field
evaluation of modified asphalt binders and asphalt mixtures,
water sensitivity of asphalt mixtures, recycled asphalt pavements,
pavement instrumentation, pavement performance studies, and
rehabilitation and maintenance design procedures.
Electrical and Biomedical Engineering
Primary Contact: Indira Chatterjee, Electrical Engineering
Advanced Photonics Research Laboratory
Primary Contact: Moncef Tayahi, Electrical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Active Materials and Processing Lab (AMPL)
Primary Contact: Kwang Kim, Mechanical Engineering
Major Focus: Dedicated to developing and characterizing active materials and sensors.
Biomechanics Lab
Primary Contact: Eric Wang, Mechanical Engineering
Major Focus: Emphasizes biomechanics, design of sports equipment and vehicle dynamics.
BioMedical Lab
Primary Contact: Cahit Evrensel, Mechanical Engineering
Major Focus: Emphasizes solid/liquid and solid/vapor interactions in bio-systems such as fluid mechanics issues in pulmonary airways.
Composite and Intelligent Materials Lab (CIML)
Primary Contact: Faramarz Gordaninejad, Mechanical Engineering
Major Focus: Basic and applied research in the areas of advanced materials, structures and systems.
Electroactive Systems and Control Lab (EASY)
Primary Contact: Kam K. Leang, Mechanical Engineering
Major Focus: Advanced control, mechatronics, and dynamic systems modeling and their applications to scanning probe microscopy, nanopositioning, and micro-autonomous systems.
Heat Transfer and Materials Lab
Primary Contact: Richard Wirtz, Mechanical Engineering
Major Focus: Research on novel heat transfer materials, equipment and thermal processes.
Mechanical Behavior Lab
Primary Contact: Yanyao Jiang, Mechanical Engineering
Major Focus: Dedicated to the experimental investigation of mechanical behavior of materials. Equipped with state-of-the-art
servohydraulic material testing systems with computer controls
and data acquisition, extensometry, metallurgical optical
microscope and more.
Nanomaterials Lab
Primary Contact: Jonghwan Suhr, Mechanical Engineering
Major Focus: Development, characterization, and application of nano-
structured materials and synthesis of carbon nano-
tubes/nanofibers and non-composites.
Nuclear Materials Operational Safety Lab
Primary Contact: Miles Greiner, Mechanical Engineering
Major Focus: Development and experimental benchmark of computational tools to predict the thermal response of spent nuclear fuel transport and storage casks during normal and fire accident
conditions.
Re-formable Tooling System Lab (RTS)
Primary Contact: Shen-Yi Luo, Mechanical Engineering
Major Focus: Dedicated to developing and evaluating novel tooling systems for quick composite fabrication.