Research Centers & Labs
The College of Engineering and Applied Science maintains a number of centers and programs dedicated to areas of specialized research. Many of these operations work closely with industry, other colleges and the community in developing new products and capabilities.
Labs & Facilities
- Advanced Materials Characterization Center
- Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations
- Center for Global Design & Manufacturing
- Center for Medical Device Innovation & Entrepreneurship (MDIEP)
- Center for Intelligent Propulsion and Advanced Life Management of Systems (CIPALMS)
- Center for Robotics Research
- Center for Smart, Sustainable, and Resilient Infrastructure
- Center for Safe, Intelligent, Equitable, & Sustainable Transportation
- Cleanroom
- Collaboratory for Medical Innovation and Implementation
- Digital Design Environments Laboratory (DDEL)
Environmental Analysis Service Center
- National Science Foundation Industry University Cooperative Research for Intelligent Maintenance Systems (IMS)
- National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center for Revolutionizing Metallic Biomaterials
- NSF IUCRC Center for Hardware and Embedded System Security and Trust (CHEST)
- NSF REU Site in Hardware and Embedded System Security and Trust (RHEST)
- Ohio Center for Microfluidic Innovation
- Ohio Cyber Range Institute
- Ohio Southwest Alliance on Semiconductors and Integrated Scalable-Manufacturing (OASiS)
- Radiological Assessment & Measurement Lab
- Siemens Simulation Technology Center
- Sustainable Solutions Laboratory
- UC Simulation Center
Research Labs by Department
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
- Autonomous Systems for S.P.A.C.E. R.O.B.O.T.I.C.S.
- Combustion Research Laboratory
- Flight Simulation Lab
- Fluid/Thermal Application Lab
- Gas Dynamics and Propulsion Lab
- Gas Turbine Simulation Laboratory
- GR Lab/Compution for Sustainability
- High Temperature Gas Turbine Erosion Lab
- Intelligent Autonomous System Research Laboratory
- Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Systems (IRAS) Laboratory
- Multiphase Flow and Combustion Lab
- Nondestructive Evaluation Laboratory
- Space Systems Lab
- Turbomachinery Erosion and Performance Deterioration Laboratory
- UAV Master Lab
- Ultrasonic Imaging
Biomedical Engineering
- Biomedical Acoustics Lab
- Bioresponsive Materials Lab
- Cleveland Lab
- Dumoulin Lab
- Emission Tomography Imaging Lab
- Integrative Biosensing Laboratory (IBL) Research
- Personalized Bioengineering Laboratory
- Sinner Lab
- Tissue Engineering Lab
- Ultrasound Research Laboratory
- Vascular Tissue and Cellular Engineering Lab
Chemical and Environmental Engineering
- Advanced Biomolecular Engineering Lab
- Advanced Oxidation and Reduction Technologies and Nanotechnologies Laboratories
- Aerosol and Air Quality Research Lab
- Atomic Materials for Catalysis Laboratory
- Biomedical Colloid and Interface Lab
- Complex Systems & Processes
- Drinking Water, Water Supply, Quality, Treatment, and Reuse Laboratory
- Energy, Environmental, and Nanomedicine Lab
- Environmental Analysis Service Center
- Nanoscale Structure and Dynamics Lab
- Nanotechnology Laboratory
- Smart Water System Laboratory
- Sustainable Solutions Laboratory
- Tissue Engineering Lab
Civil and Architectural Engineering and Construction Management
- Advanced Research in Transportation Engineering Systems Laboratory
- Building Energy Assessment, Solutions and Technology Lab
- Building Innovation
- Center for Smart, Sustainable, and Resilient Infrastructure
- Center for Safe, Intelligent, Equitable, & Sustainable Transportation
- Construction Materials Lab
- Data-based Optimization, Visualization, and Evaluation of Transportation through Analysis and Integration Lab
- Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory
- High Bay Structural Lab
- Large Scale Testing Facility
- Smart and Healthy Buildings
- Structural Bolts & Connections Lab
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Autonomous Integrated Microsystems (AIM) Laboratory
- Center for Advanced Design and Manufacturing of Integrated Microfluidics
- Complex Adaptive Systems Laboratory
- Database Group
- Data Security and Privacy Laboratory
- Digital Design Environments Laboratory
- Electric Energy Laboratory
- Embodied Interactive Systems Laboratory
- Esfandiari Lab
- GaAs devices and Integrated Circuits Lab
- High Performance Computing Laboratory
- Infrastructure Institute
- Information Theory Laboratory
- Intelligent Sensing and Control (ISaC) Laboratory
- Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence
- MEMS and Autonomous Integrated Microsystems (AIM) Laboratory
- Microelectronics Automated Design and Test Laboratory
- Microsystems and BioMEMS Laboratory
- Microelectronics and Integrated-circuits with Neurocentric Devices (MIND) Laboratory
- Multimedia Networking & Computing Lab
- Nanoelectronics Laboratory
- Novel Device Laboratory
- RAPIDS Cyber Laboratory
- Semiconductor Devices Laboratory
- Software Engineering Research Laboratory
- Solid State Physics & Electronic Materials Laboratory
- Spatio-Temporal Data Analytics Lab
- Spintronics and Vacuum Nanoelectronics Laboratory
- Synergistic Human-Robot Interaction Lab
- Thermoelectric Energy Conversion Laboratory
- Wireless Communications & Signal Processing Lab
- Wireless and Mobile Communication Lab
- UC infrastructure Institute
Mechanical and Materials Engineering
- Applied Acoustics and Mechanics Lab
- Center for Global Design & Manufacturing
- Center for Laser Shock Processing for Advanced Materials and Devices
- Center for Robotics Research
- Collaboratory for Medical Innovation and Implementation
- Complex Fluids and Multiphase Transport Laboratory
- Cooperative Distributed Systems Lab
- Digital Fabrication Lab
- Energy Conversion Materials Laboratory
- Energy Materials & Nano-Biomedicine Laboratory
- Innovative Computer Modeling of Materials
- Integrated Vehicle Design Laboratory
- Intelligent CAM Systems Laboratory
- Micro and Nano Manufacturing Laboratory
- National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center for Revolutionizing Metallic Biomaterials
- National Science Foundation Industry University Cooperative Research for Intelligent Maintenance Systems (IMS)
- NANOWORLD Smart Materials and Devices Laboratories
- Nuclear Forensics Lab
- Center for Occupational Safety and Health Engineering
- Siemens Simulation Technology Center
- Structural Dynamics Research Laboratory
- Structural Health Assessment and Monitoring Lab
- Thermal Fluids & Thermal Processing Laboratory
- Thermoelectric Energy Conversion Laboratory
- Transport in Engineering and Medicine Laboratory
- UC Simulation Center
- UC Lab for Interfacial Dynamics (UCLID)