Research Labs
Advanced Mechatronics
The Advanced Mechatronics Laboratory consists of a diverse group of faculty, post-doctoral students, staff, graduate students and undergraduate students from Carnegie Mellon University. The Laboratory's affiliations within Carnegie Mellon University include ECE, the Robotics Institute, the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems, and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Research within the Advanced Mechatronics Laboratory focuses on the idea of Rapidly Deployable Intelligent Systems. The main threads of this research are composition, collaboration, task management, and adaptation.
Advanced Multimedia Processing
The word "multimedia" is more than the simple combination of text, audio, images, graphics and video. The interaction among these media, and their interaction with humans, networks, and storage media, are what really make multimedia research exciting. The Advanced Multimedia Processing (AMP) Lab, has wide interests in various techniques for multimedia applications. Several projects at the AMP lab have contributed to international standards such as ITU-T H.263 and ISO MPEG-4. Others will lead to advanced research that goes beyond the existing standards.
Computer Architecture
The Computer Architecture Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon (CALCM) is composed of ten participating faculty and approximately 40 graduate students from the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science.
CALCM was founded in 2001 to bring together researchers at Carnegie Mellon interested in computer architecture from several related and connected disciplines to bridge and complement the research strengths in computer systems at Carnegie Mellon. CALCM researchers lead the academic and research communities with interdisciplinary projects ranging from programming paradigms and architectures for massively-parallel single-chip systems, circuit- and technology-aware chip architectures for technologies at nanoscale CMOS level and beyond, and fully-synthesizable integrated hardware and software solutions for signal processing applications.
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Integrated System Testing
The Carnegie Mellon Laboratory for Integrated Systems Test (CM-LIST) is developing design- and process-specific test methodologies to maximize knowledge extraction from the silicon product for meeting and maintaining yield and quality objectives.
Microelectromechanical Systems
As information systems increasingly leave fixed locations and appear in our pockets and palms, they are getting closer to the physical world, creating new opportunities for perceiving and controlling our machines, structures and environments.
To exploit these opportunities, information systems will need to sense and act as well as compute. Thus, the primary research thrust of the MEMS group is toward highly integrated microsystems that interact with the environment and push the boundaries of electrical-mechanical functional integration.
The MEMS Laboratory, housed in the ECE Department, brings together researchers from Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology, the Robotics Institute and the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems. The MEMS Lab is engaged in research on sensor and actuator systems with performance derived from mechanical features measured in microns and components numbering from a few to millions.
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Nanofabrication Facility
A premier research laboratory in the College of Engineering, the Carnegie Mellon Nanofabrication Facility (CMNF) is one of the most well equipped university based facilities for data storage thin film and device development in the United States. The facility includes a 4,000 square foot cleanroom, three thin film labs, and a photo reduction darkroom. The Nanofab Facility is managed by the Data Storage Systems Center (DSSC) and occupies space in the ECE Department in Hamerschlag Hall and in the College of Engineering building, Roberts Hall.