Active Robotic Sensing (ARoS) Laboratory

The ARoS lab focuses on the development of tools for the fields of pattern recognition, estimation theory, and statistical and topological data analysis in order to solve problems in the areas of wearable health and environmental monitoring, robotics and computer vision.

Advanced Materials Research Laboratory (AMRL)

Professor Afsaneh Rabiei’s research group covers materials’ manufacturing, characterization, and failure analysis from nano-scale to micro and macro scale to address the needs of biomedical, mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering.

Analytical Instrumentation Facility (AIF)

A shared instrumentation facility for advanced materials characterization and imaging.

Chemical Protection and Man-in-Simulant Test Lab

The Chemical Protection Laboratory utilizes state-of-the-art equipment to analyze materials and ensemble systems for penetration, permeation, and infiltration resistance of potentially toxic chemical liquids and gases. Innovative equipment is used to study protection properties from fabric swatch to garment ensembles with both manikin and human subject protocols.

Constructed Facilities Lab (CFL)

The Constructed Facilities Lab (CFL) performs advanced research and development of construction materials, structural systems, and processes that enhance the sustainability and economy of civil infrastructure.

Control and Optimization for Renewables and Energy Efficiency (CORE) Lab

The CORE lab specializes in the application of advanced optimization and control algorithms to emerging problems in renewable energy and energy efficiency. 

Corrosion and Advanced Materials Laboratory (CAML)

CAML studies the relationships in metallic materials, passivity, corrosion initiation and propagation mechanisms, and surface electrochemistry. The lab’s research is applied to developing new metallic materials, corrosion characterization techniques, and material processing technologies.

Engineering Mechanics and Space Systems Lab (EMSSL)

EMSSL focuses on applying the engineering principle of dynamics to a variety of transportation vehicles, including those used in underwater and space exploration.

Integrated Circuits and Systems Lab

Hosted in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Integrated Circuits and Systems Lab (iNcs2) researches radio frequency and millimeter-wave circuits and systems for wireless communications, imaging, and radar applications. 

Intelligent Structures and Systems Research Lab (ISSRL)

iSSRL focuses on enabling novel dynamic and mechatronic systems for energy, aerospace, actuation, and control applications.

Language Training Centers

The Language Training Center (LTC) at NC State University is a Department of Defense initiative aimed at improving the language skills, regional expertise and intercultural communication skills of military personnel and providing venues of collaboration between DOD units and institutions of higher learning. The LTC is funded by the National Security Education Program, through the Defense Language National Security Education Office. 

Movement Biomechanics Laboratory (MoBL)

MoBL improves the function and treatment of neuromusculoskeletal injury in the upper limbs through an improved understanding of musculoskeletal structure-function relationships.

Nanofabrication Facility (NNF)

A shared facility for nanofabrication instrumentation including all standard thin film processing tools serving a variety of disciplines.

Self-Driving Fluidic Lab

Multidisciplinary research group primarily focused on studies of autonomous flow chemistry strategies to accelerate the discovery, development, and manufacturing of advanced materials and molecules. Self-driving fluidic labs can accelerate efforts toward meeting a rapidly growing global energy demand while preserving the environment. This lab studies the fundamentals of process intensification using microreaction engineering concepts and principles of “smart” manufacturing.

Wolfpack Security and Privacy Research Lab (WSPR)

The WSPR Laboratory models, designs, builds, and validates technology that protects users, systems, and networks. They work on all areas of cybersecurity, from designing new cryptographic constructs to ensure protected execution of code to empirical studies on how software is secured by developers; from finding flaws in existing operating systems to building systems resilient from known attacks; from detecting malicious activity such as malware and denial of service attacks to building networks and mechanisms to prevent abuse.

Vector Borne Disease

The focus of the Vector Borne Disease Lab at NC State is research to benefit animal health. It is our intention to provide quality answers to diagnostic questions. The assays, antigens and controls used are developed and validated as a component of our research. We modify methods or reagents as needed to achieve the best analysis possible without reliance on any proprietary methods or reagents.