Laboratories

The Department of Mechanical Engineering manages more than 50,000 square feet of modern research and teaching facilities in the Black Engineering Building, Hoover Hall, Howe Hall, and the Nuclear Engineering Laboratory on the Iowa State campus. Our buildings contain classrooms, computer clusters, instructional and research laboratories, offices, and a student lounge.

Our facilities include laboratories for research and development in controls, robotics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, unsteady viscous flows, fluidized bed heat and mass transfer, combustion, laser applications, advanced materials, computer-aided manufacturing, thermal/environmental studies, and tribology.

Acoustics Laboratory
Biodiesel Laboratory
Biomass Cookstoves Laboratory
Biomass Fuels Research Laboratory
Combustion and Gasification Laboratory
Controls Research Laboratory
Engine Research Laboratory
Experimental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory
Heat Transfer and Refrigeration Laboratory
Laboratory for Advanced Robotics and Computer Control
Laser and Nanoscale Processing Laboratory
Multiphase Flow Computational Laboratory
Nanoscale Tribology and Mechanics Laboratory
Powders Technology and Combustion Laboratory
Scanning Probe Microscope Laboratory
Experimental Multiphase Flow Laboratory
Tribology Laboratory
Vibration and Noise Control Laboratory

The university provides an exceptional computing environment for faculty, staff, graduate students, and undergraduate students.

Mechanical engineering faculty and student researchers collaborate with colleagues across campus, leveraging major research instrumentation that is available for interdisciplinary work.

Ames Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy
W.M. Keck Laboratory for High-Throughput Atom-Scale Analysis
Roy J. Carver Laboratory for Ultra-high Resolution Biological Microscopy
Atom Probe Microscope Laboratory
Microelectronics Research Center