Our research facilities are designed for maximal flexibility and to grow with the department. Adjacent to the labs is a write-up area where researchers can continue their work, complete with personal cubbies, lockers, and whiteboards.
Research
The engineering research labs in 245 Beacon feature 13,300 square feet of dedicated lab space for researchers, as well as engineering faculty and students, to work in collaborative teams and across disciplines.
Faculty Research Labs
Brace Lab
The Brace Lab leads research in bioprocessing, downstream separations and recovery of biomolecules and bioproducts, and quantitative sustainable design [including techno-economic analysis (TEA) and life cycle assessment (LCA)] of bioproducts and biorefineries.
Humanizing Engineering Research (HER) Lab
Our research explores educational technologies and humanistic design approaches and re-envisioning engineering epistemologies, centered on the communities we partner with. We are motivated by how engineering and technology can help people live well in an increasingly engineered world.
Salifu Lab
Dr. Salifu's research is motivated by the need to develop affordable, sustainable, and environmentally friendly technologies to improve our quality of life.
Gaudette Lab
Research areas: tissue engineering, cellular agriculture, and sports biomechanics. Students perform cell culture, develop plant-based biomaterials, evaluate production of new protein sources, analyze physical performance metrics, contribute to published work, and present at national conferences.
Hoar Lab
The Hoar Lab is an environmental engineering laboratory combining tools in microbiology, molecular biology, and analytical chemistry to optimize removal of contaminants from wastewater and gain information from sewage about community-level health.
Govindasamy Lab
The WiSPLab focuses on wireless communications, to improve energy efficiency of wireless networks, combining physical system parameters and human use, and sensing, including physiological sensing using radio waves and mitigating potential security hazards of wireless communications.
Pan Lab
Susan (Shufen) Pan is an environmental scientist exploring the interactions within human-environment systems amid a changing world. She employs an interdisciplinary approach integrating geospatial technologies like GIS, GPS, and remote sensing, with computational modeling and AI/machine learning.
Henriques Lab
Research interests include climate change adaptation, humanitarian technology, environmental sensing.
Ranger Lab
At the Ranger Lab, we develop novel biomedical imaging and instrumentation to address unmet needs in global public health.
