MSE Laboratory Materials Science and Engineering Laboratories and Facilities Laboratory capabilities in the area of material analysis provide a comprehensive array of equipment. Labs are outfitted with equipment and software to design, produce and test a wide range of materials. Customary facilities include for metallographic studies, mechanical testing, heat treating furnaces, variety of microscopes, metal fabrication and casting, and plastics processing.
Special laboratories support such areas as materials testing and automated manufacturing systems.
Michigan both harvests wood and uses it for fabrication. Our department has an advanced facility for wood products manufacturing . The Physics department has a Van de Graaff accelerator available for materials research. The computer facilities in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences are rich, diverse, and constantly maintained and upgraded. Materials Institute for Innovation and Enterprise has equipment for measurement of mechanical, thermal, and physical properties of non-metallic materials.