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Every day, UAB engineers are engaging in research that is shaping the world we live in. In the School of Engineering’s laboratories, world-renowned faculty work alongside engineering students to tackle everyday challenges in areas such as telecommunication, power systems, or highway safety and transportation.

Other labs focus on creating a better future through research into tissue engineering, composite materials, and sustainable smart cities, to name just a few.

The School of Engineering is also home to several research centers, where engineers of different disciplines, as well as scientists from across campus, converge on collaborative projects and interdisciplinary research. Examples of research include:


EITD Research Group

Hardware designed and built in the Engineering Technology and Applications Development (EITD) research group is in constant use on the International Space Station. In recent years, the EITD has had as many as 17 payloads in orbit at any given time as part of a $500 million contract with NASA.


BME

Engineers in the Department of Biomedical Engineering collaborate with clinicians and other engineers to develop cardiac tissue that is expected to change the way heart attacks are treated. For the past three years, the department has ranked in the top five nationally in funding received from the National Institutes of Health.


MPAD Center

At the Materials Processing and Applications Development (MPAD) Center, researchers develop the technology that goes into everything from buses and tanks to buildings to electronics and medical devices.


Additionally, at the Sustainable Smart Cities Research Center, engineers are examining all aspects of urban life in an effort to develop the systems that will solve the significant challenges that will face future generations. In the Integrated Systems Center, electrical engineers are looking at areas of convergence where Big Data and complementary systems will help shape our understanding of the next generation of communication and scientific inquiry.

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