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SMART
INFRASTRUCTURE
LABORATORY
Using the fully-sensored 160,000 square
feet of Goodwin Hall as
a test-bed, the SMART
Infrastructure Lab is a
multidisciplinary masterpiece. Director and
Assistant Professor
Pablo Tarazaga enjoys
partnerships with faculty from a variety of
engineering, science,
music, visual arts, and
education disciplines.
Creating terrabytes of
data daily, the facility
is providing a wealth
of knowledge on the
power of Big Data and
creating smarter infrastructure.
SPINNERET BASED TUNABLE ENGINEERING PARAMETERS LABORATORY
The STEP Lab was founded by Associate Professor Amrinder Nain in 2009 to manufacture
mechanistically tunable polymeric nanofibers using a non-electrospinning technology. The lab
takes an interdisciplinary approach to research by working with multiple departments and institutes within the university. Current research includes studies of cancer cell protrusion, single
and collective cell migration, and formation of cancer leader cells.
RAILWAY TECHNOLOGIES LABORATORY
Designed to explore and implement technologies enabling U.S. railroad companies be more
efficient and competitive in their operations, the RTL was established in 2004 as an Association of American Railroads affiliated laboratory. Today, the laboratory allows state-of-the-art
research in rail vehicle dynamics, railway component design and development, and analytical
evaluation of various systems for rail applications.