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Research Facilities
Advanced Optimization Laboratory
The Advanced Optimization Group aims for excellence in research in theoretical and applied aspects of optimization, both discrete and continuous. This goal is pursued by coupling the provided state-of-the-art infrastructure installed in the Advanced Optimization Laboratory with the strengths of the participating faculty and students.
Communications Research Laboratory
Faculty, researchers and support staff are working in the fields of adaptive and learning systems, antennas, electromagnetics, optoelectronics, network and computer systems, and signal processing.
Machining Systems Laboratory
The Machining Systems Laboratory is focused on the area of Machining Systems, including studies related to advanced machine tools and metal cutting and is strongly linked to industrial R&D of interest to manufacturing industries involved in machining.
McMaster Advanced Control Consortium
McMaster Advanced Control Consortium (MACC) MACC is an industrially orientated research center with the Department of Chemical Engineering at McMaster University. The center promotes and advances process control by bringing together researchers and practitioners for the investigation and application of leading-edge control technology.
McMaster Nuclear Reactor
Operating since 1959, the facilities, skills and people of the McMaster Nuclear Reactor (MNR) are used by students, faculty, small businesses and international industry leaders to fills the real need to match student learning with research and industry.
Microwave Acoustics Laboratory
The Microwave Acoustics Laboratory (MAL) undertakes research in acoustic wave devices for communications applications.
Neurocomputing for Signal Processing Laboratory
Neurocomputing for Signal Processing Laboratory researches nonlinear adaptive filtering, nonlinear dynamics of sea clutter and improved radar target detection, sensor fusion, image compression, dynamic channel allocation of resources for mobile communications, integrated receiver for mobile communications, and communications between neuronal sites in the nervous system.
Power Research Laboratory
The Power Research Laboratory facilitates experimental research and development in electric power engineering and related areas. These activities improve service to the engineering community and foster increased interactions in the general area of electric power engineering.
Robotics and Manufacturing Research Laboratory
The Robotics and Manufacturing Automation Laboratory is an extensively equipped facility for manufacturing automation research that features four industrial robots, a robotic hand, a 6-axis Force Sensor and a Computer Vision System.
Simulation Optimization Systems (SOS)
The SOS Research Laboratory paved the way to the world's first statistical modeling/yield-driven design technology used in major CAD/CAE products. Work continues on efficient techniques for large-scale optimization, active device parameter extraction, physics-based statistical device modeling and simulation, design centering and yield-driven design for GaAs MIMICs (Microwave/Millimeter-Wave Monolithic Integrated Circuits).
Software Quality Research Laboratory
The Software Quality Research Laboratory (SQRL) is a group of researchers working together to improve the quality of software products. We perform fundamental research, applied research, technology transfer, and contractual software quality assessments. We represent a broad variety of approaches but cooperate in a single unit that applies combinations of sound new ideas to practical problems.
Water Resources Environmental Information Systems Laboratory
The Water Resources Environmental Information Systems Laboratory develops
innovative tools for solving complex environmental engineering problems.
The lab focuses on the development and application of advanced state-of-the-art
computer models to be used in computational hydraulics and hydrology supporting
decision making for engineering design projects, contingency planning studies,
and regulatory compliance support.
Walter W. Smeltzer Corrosion Laboratory
The lab provides experimental research facilities for faculty, research associates and graduate students, functions as a vehicle for the promotion of corrosion knowledge among university, industry and government and provides a service to industry in corrosion consulting and the examination and testing of corrosion-related problems.
