Faculty Research Labs

The Mechanical Engineering Department administers the following state-of-the-art research and instructional facilities:

• Active Materials and Processing Lab (AMPL) and Low Carbon Green Technology Lab
  Primary Contact: Kwang Kim
  Major Focus: Dedicated to developing and characterizing active materials and sensors.
• Bioelectromagnetics Lab
  Primary Contact: Carlos Martino
  Major Focus: Bioelectromagnetics, electrodynamics of continua
• Biomechanics Lab
  Primary Contact: Eric Wang
  Major Focus: Emphasizes biomechanics, design of sports equipment and vehicle dynamics.
• BioMedical Lab
  Primary Contact: Cahit Evrensel
  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
  Major Focus: Basic and applied research in the areas of advanced materials, structures and systems.
• Electroactive Systems and Controls (EASY) Lab
  Primary Contact: Kam K. Leang
  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
  Major Focus: Research on novel heat transfer materials, equipment and thermal processes.
• Mechanical Behavior Lab
  Primary Contact: Yanyao Jiang
  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.
• Polymer MicroSystems Lab (PluS Lab)
  Primary Contact: Emil Geiger
  Major Focus: Polymer microsystems; microfluids; soft MEMS.
• Nuclear Materials Operational Safety Lab
  Primary Contact: Miles Greiner
  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
  Major Focus: Dedicated to developing and evaluating novel tooling systems for quick composite fabrication.

• Sustainable Energy Laboratory (SEL)
  Primary Contact: Chanwoo Park
  Major Focus: Devoted to developing and characterizing two-phase (boiling) and energy/thermal systems applying to nano/micro electronic cooling and sustainable energy systems.