Human Factors Materials Computing
Human Factors
Speech Pathology and Audiology
- Research Laboratories
- Fully-equipped language development
- Infant development
- Speech perception and production
- Palatometry
- Neurophysiology
- Pediatric audiology
- Voice science
- Auditory physiology
- Hearing aids/amplification
- Psychoacoustic laboratories
- Swallowing
- Tele health in both speech and audiology
- Five audiological test suites
- Three audiological research suites
- Eight therapy rooms with a digital video/sound system for supervision in addition to the one-way mirrors
Exercise Physiology
- Anthropometric Lab
- Behavioral Science Lab
- Equipped to perform a wide array of measures including, but not limited to; exercise tests, anthropometric measures, and assessments of relative reinforcing (motivating) value
- Biochemistry Lab
- Applied & Environmental Physiology Lab
- Motor Control Lab
- Strength Lab
- Exercise Testing Lab
- Vascular Health Lab
- Rapid prototyping, process improvement, quality and safety management systems, and time-based and lean manufacturing
Materials
Chemistry and Biochemistry Departments
- NMR Spectroscopy:
- Varian Inova 500
- Bruker DMX 400 with solid state capabilities
- Bruker AMX 300
- Mass Spectroscopy:
- Bruker Esquire ESI/MS/HPLC
- ThermoFinnigan GC/MS (EI/CI)
- Voyager DE MALDI-TOF spectrometer
- Thermal Analysis:
- TGA, TMA, DSC
- Titration Calorimetry
- X-Ray
- Siemens D5000 Powder Diffractometer
- Bruker AXS platform single crystal X-ray diffractometer
- Upgraded with an APEX II CCD detector
- Graphite monochromatized Mo K a radiation (1 = 0.7107 A)
- Equipped with an Oxford 700 Series Cryostream low temperature device (operates at 100 K)
- Lattice determination, data collection, structure refinement, scaling, and data reduction are carried out using Apex2 v1.0-27
- Machine Shop
- Cutting, drilling, milling, and lathing services
- Advanced Recombinant DNA Laboratory
- Centrifuges (Beckman L8-55M, Sorval RC-5B, and a Beckman Airfuge)
- Perkin Elmer GeneAmp 9600 PCR system
- UV Stratalinker 2400
- DNA sequencing system
- Proteomics Core Facility
- Cary 300 Series II Spectrophotometer
- Pre-monochromator – Extends the working range of the Cary 300 past 5 absorbance units by lowering the stray light.
- Sealed optics – prevents exposure to corrosive environments.
- Variable slits – allow optimum control over data resolution. The spectral bandwidth can be set to 0.2 nm.
- Phase locked wavelength drive – prevents peak shifts and peak suppression at high scan speeds.
- Double choppers – ensure that the sample and reference beam strike the detector at the same point.
- The large sample compartment – gives you more flexibility in sample size.
- Centralized accessory control – all accessories are centrally controlled by the Accessory Controller.
- Cary 300 Accessories
- The SPS-5 together with the Routine Sampler Accessory perform high throughput liquid handling. Routine sample analysis is automated, reducing error and analysis time
- Minimum sample volume 320μL
- Flow cell volume 80μL
- Wavelength range – 190-900nm
- Temperature range – 5-~100ºC
- Peltier Temperature Control Accessory unit with provisions for six samples and six reference cuvettes
- Staggered cell positions
- Peltier heating/cooling
- Built-in temperature probe for monitoring cell block temperatures
- Electromagnetic stirring
- Cell lifter
- Ciphergen Protein Biology System IIc SELDI TOF MS
- Beckman Coulter ProteomeLab PF2D
- High loading capacity without band distortion
- Improved detection of low-abundance species
- Membrane or hydrophobic proteins detection
- Enhanced reproducibility
- Contamination-free liquid flow path
- Automation
- Beckman Coulter Biomek 2000 Laboratory Automation Workstation
- Controlled by a PC using the Windows XP-based BioWorks™ Operating System
- Labconoco CentriVap Concentrator/Cold Trap
- Eppendorf 5415D Centrifuge
- Thermolyne DRI-BATH
- ZOOM IPG Runner System and various gel electrophoresis equipment
Liquid Crystal Institute/Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program
- Liquid Crystal Device Prototype Facility
- Glass cleaning: ultrasonic, UV/ozone, plasma
- Photolithography / patterning: pattern generation in positive resist (S1800 series) to 3 microns or less; etching processes for ITO, chrome, aluminum, SiO2, nickel, gold, and others; laser repair
- Wet coatings: spincoating, roller coating (not standard)
- Vacuum deposition: RF and DC sputter coating of SiO2, nickel, and other
- films; e-beam evaporation; ion-assisted e-beam evaporation; thermal evaporation
- Alignment layers: various polyimide materials; SiOx oblique evaporation
- Cell assembly: XY dispenser for gasket seal; wet or dry spacer application; post spacers
- Glass scribing: manual and programmable glass scribers, for single or laminated substrates, with camera alignment
- Cell filling: vacuum filling, end sealing
- Characterization: Spectroscopic ellipsometry for thin film characterization; SEM; profilometry
- Environmental testing: temp and humidity chamber, programmable
- Organic Synthesis Facility
- Provides researchers with liquid crystalline materials that are not commercially available
- Purify impure single liquid crystals
- Formulate mixtures when an exact composition is provided
- Expertise in deuterated materials, esters, cyanobiphenyls, ferroelectrics, diacetylenes, lipid salts, etc
- Characterization Facility
- Determine material properties of bulk liquid crystals, properties of the liquid crystal/substrate interface, and properties of the substrate
- Measurements that can be obtained by this facility
- Bulk Material Properties
- Dielectric Properties
- Frank Elastic Constants
- Indices of Refraction
- Diamagnetic Anisotropy
- Liquid Crystal/Substrate Properties
- Pretilt Angle
- Polar Anchoring Coefficient
- Substrate Properties
- Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)
- Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
- Transmission Electron Microscopy Facility
- Available techniques:
- Traditional TEM, high resolution TEM (HRTEM), scanning TEM (STEM), cryo-TEM, electron diffraction techniques, energy-filtered TEM (EFTEM), electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), and energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (EDS)
- Instruments:
- 200 kV microscope (Tecnai G2 F20), manufactured by FEI, provides superb performance of a 0.24 nm point-to-point resolution and a 0.15 nm information limit for TEM mode and a 0.2 nm spot size for STEM mode
- Microscope features:
- Advanced digitally controlled operating system
- Schottky field emission gun
- Integrated scanning TEM (STEM) system
- Integrated low-dose mode
- Attachments and accessories:
- Twin-blade anti-contaminator
- 4k*4k UltraScan CCD camera
- FEI Vitrobot
- Cryo holder
- Integrated Gatan Tridiem imaging filter
- EDAX SUTW (super ultra-thin window) x-ray spectrometer
- Radiation effects on solar cells and semiconductor materials
- Study of metallic and ceramic materials using x-ray photo-electron spectroscopy and Auger electron microscopy
Computing and Simulation
- Internet Engineering and Teaching Laboratory (IETL)
- Distributed Steering, Computation and Visualization Laboratory (DiSCoV)
- The Software Development Laboratory (SDML)
- Source-Code Analysis, Transformation, and Differencing
- Software Traceability
- Reverse Engineering and Reengineering
- Program Comprehension and Understanding
- Emprical Software Engineering and Mining Software Repositories
- Software Visualization to Support Understanding of Large Software Systems
- Networking and Media Communication Research (MediaNet) Laboratory
- VLSI Design Laboratory
- Bioinformatics and BioComputing Laboratory
- Parallel and Associative Computing Lab