Labs and Facilities
College Computing Labs & Facilities
The college maintains a number of computer labs and some special purpose software
& hardware. These facilities are available to all students and faculty in the college
of engineering.
Link to College Computing
Research Center
- Center of Cybersecurity and Wireless Innovations
The mission of the center is to advance the state-of-the-art technologies in cyber security, wireless networking, and wireless sensor networks.
Teaching Labs
A number of teaching labs are maintained by EECS department.
- Digital Logic Design Lab
Each workstation in this lab is equipped with a 16-channel HP/Agilent MSO, a full function logic trainer, and a PC. Screen capture software and WinLogiLab are installed on the PC's.
- Electric Circuits Lab
Several courses use the equipment in this room. The stations in this lab are equipped with the following test equipment: Rohde & Schwarz 2-ch MSO, Benchtop Multimeter, and Arbitrary Waveform Generator. All of the test equipment can be linked to the PC using a USB connection.
- Electronics Lab
The equipment in this room is used for Electronics I and the Electronics Laboratory course. Each workstation in the lab is equipped with the following test equipment: Rohde & Schwarz 4-ch MSO, Benchtop Multimeter, DC Power Source, and Arbitrary Waveform Generator. All of the test equipment can be linked to the PC using a USB connection. PSpice is installed and used in this lab. There are 2 Curve Tracers, and a RLC Bridge in this room as well.
- Energy Conversion Lab
This teaching lab is used for experiments and testing of transformers and electric machines. LabVolt training stations, and software are used in this lab.
- FPGA Lab
This undergraduate/graduate lab is used for the course Field Programmable Gate Arrays. The workstations in this lab are equipped with mixed signal oscilloscopes, and FPGA prototype boards with Xilinx and Altera FPGA's.
- Embedded Systems Lab
Each workstation in this lab is equipped with a PC, and Keysight 16-channel MSO. Texas Instruments embedded development boards are used to complete the lab experiments.
- PLC Lab
This lab has stations equipped with Allen-Bradley and Siemens controllers and I/O modules. Various test modules are used to demonstrate the function of the PLC’s.
- Semiconductor Design Laboratory
Research Labs
A number of laboratories are used for research and may be sponsored or maintained by a research focus group.
- Artificial Intelligence Lab
The AI lab makes it possible to conduct research that requires a robust and reliable computing platform to facilitate large-scale and compute-intensive simulations, particularly for projects in knowledge and data mining, machine learning, neural networks, and artificial intelligence.
- Communications Lab
This research lab has a Hardware Communication Simulator and additional workstations for simulation of satellite communications.
- Electronic Materials Lab
This lab is used for research on electronic and optical materials, as well as laser processing of materials. It has a high energy pulsed laser system and a film deposition system.
- FPGA Lab
This undergraduate/graduate Lab is used for the course Field Programmable Gate Arrays. The workstations in this lab are equipped with mixed signal oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and FPGA prototype boards with Xilinx and Altera FPGA's.
- OCARNET Lab
This lab is used for Advanced Networking Research, and the course B-ISDN & ATM Networks. This lab consists of two ATM switches each of 20 giga bits/sec.
- Power Electronics Lab
This lab is fully equipped to design, build, and test switching power converters up to power levels of 10 KW. It also houses environmental test chambers and specialized battery testing facilities up to 400 volts and 150 amps.
- Semiconductor Research Laboratory
- Simnet Lab
This lab is used for advanced research in Computer Networks, Network Models and Algorithms, Simulation and Modeling of discrete & Continuous Systems, and Innovation Management for Accelerated Radical Innovation. This lab has 8 general purpose PC's, 7 Unix workstations, and a network testbed consisting of 25+ PC's in an isolated research network.
- Thin Films Lab