Labs, Centers, and Facilities

The Cloud Computing Lab serves as a research and innovation hub dedicated to advancing software development practices, cloud infrastructure design, and scalable system architectures that support education, research, and industry collaboration.

The student-run Security Operations Center (SOC) at Fairfield University is the result of the collaboration between the School of Engineering and Computing and the Security team from the ITS department. This facility provides students with a hands-on and meaningful cybersecurity experience based on software tools used in industry. All the students participating in this program help monitor the University’s network, guard against cyberattacks, and look for potentially critical vulnerabilities. In addition, students engage in regular threat-hunting exercises that mirror real-world SOC workflows, strengthening their technical and analytical skills.

The SOC also serves as a training ground where participants build valuable professional competencies while contributing directly to enhancing the security posture of the University.

The UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) Lab is a multidisciplinary research space where faculty, students, and industry sponsors collaborate on the development of autonomous and AI-enabled aerial systems operating in GPS denied environments. The lab provides hands-on experience in sensing, control, navigation, and communication integration. Its mission is to advance research, support experiential education, and innovation in next-generation unmanned flight technologies.

The goal of the Community Situated Biomechanics Lab is to develop and disseminate a new paradigm for research that simultaneously solves problems in STEM outreach and Musculoskeletal research. Our Community Situated Biomechanics Lab at Fairfield University will turn youth sport programs into a site for authentic STEM learning and prospective studies of musculoskeletal development. We will demonstrate that authentic community engagement will lead to the generation of novel, previously impossible to collect, data sets regarding musculoskeletal development, while engaging also thousands of youth in STEM learning.

The Materials Synthesis and Characterization Lab is designed to support research in the area of micro and nanomanufacturing, and materials characterization. Equipped with microscopes (optical, SEM, and AFM), mechanical (universal testing machine), thermal (conductivity, thermogravimetric analyzers), and electrical characterization equipment. The lab capabilities include electrospinning, electropolymerization, bio 3D printing, gas foaming, and ultrasonic processing

The Hypersonic Fluids Lab's purpose is to develop advanced surface sensors for measuring heat flux and shear stress, as well as off-surface fluid diagnostic techniques for flow visualization, to better interrogate high-speed fluid flows. It also aims to enable streamwise and wall-normal measurements of fluid properties within the boundary layers of flight geometries, support the development of acoustic sensors for disturbance localization, and provide undergraduate and graduate students with hands-on experience in high-speed vehicle design, instrumentation, and data acquisition.

Explore cutting-edge laser technologies in our university lab, where students gain hands-on experience in laser diagnostics and high-speed flow analysis.

The Innovation Annex is an interdisciplinary innovation and prototyping space that supports Fundamentals of Engineering, senior design, and independent research projects. It houses the Makerspace and all 3D printing equipment. The garage of the Fairfield Offroad Racing Team affiliated with Baja SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) is also located here. Student members of this club design and build a Baja Buggy—an all-terrain vehicle engineered to compete in SAE’s annual four-day competition.

Dedicated to Industrial Automation coursework and senior projects and research projects. The lab focuses on Programmable Logic Control, PLC, programming, control systems, and advanced automation applications.

The Electrical Engineering and Power Systems Lab supports electrical engineering and biomedical coursework, providing instrumentation and circuit analysis experience. The lab is equipped with Biopac Systems and Anatomage Tablets for Biomedical Engineering Labs.

The Mechanical Engineering Lab houses four major mechanical engineering experimental setups used for teaching four mechanical engineering lab courses.