Research Lab Partners

The Advanced Design and Manufacturing Systems Program combines the study of robotics, automatic controls, machine design, materials processing, and computer engineering to improve manufacturing, increase productivity, and improve product quality.

The Biomedical Engineering Graduate Group integrates engineering with medical sciences to advance fundamental medical concepts, create knowledge from the molecular to the organ systems levels, and develop innovative biologics, materials, processes, implants, devices, and informatics approaches. These approaches are applied to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease in humans and animals.

The Center for Combustion and Chemical Processing investigates processes involving chemical reactions in flames, including destruction of wastes by incineration, and burning of fossil fuels for heat or power.

The Center for Computational Fluid Dynamics uses advanced computational facilities, including supercomputers, to explore complex motions of fluids. Applications are to aeronautics, groundwater migration, meteorology, plasma dynamics, and coating processes.

The Center for Computer Security explores theoretical and practical problems related to computer network and hardware security, monitors, and security auditing to protect against computer break-ins and viruses.

The Center for Solid-State and Optoelectronics combines the efforts of electrical and electronics engineers, materials scientists and engineers, and physicists to study vacuum microelectronics, solid-state devices and sensors, optical information processing, and ultrashort pulses and photonics.

The Plasma Physics Research Institute, located at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, fosters research on plasma creation, magnetic and laser fusion energy, magneto- and electro-hydrodynamics of plasma, laser physics, and reactions of plasmas with matter and radiation.

The Plasma Research Group performs basic and applied research on the plasma state of matter, with faculty from the Departments of Applied Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.