The department is located in the CAMP building, which houses the departmental administrative offices, and instructional and research laboratories. Among the major departmental research facilities are labs for fluid mechanics, Flexible Manufacturing System, CAD, aerosol, microgravity, composite materials, metal joining, and a class-10 cleanroom. Clarkson has a mainframe computer and several network servers. Most graduate students do their computing on workstations or microcomputers. There are many pentium-based microcomputers, SUN, and IBM RISC 6000 workstations in the department.
Students also have access to advanced graphics workstations and color printers.
The workstations, microcomputers, and mainframes are interconnected through a network in support of research activities. This network is connected to various national and international computer networks. The department also has laser printers, scanners, high-quality plotters, and digitizer facilities. A wide variety of well-funded research projects are ongoing, serving both the United States government and private industry. CAMP's primary mission is to perform innovative research on the processing of high-technology materials of interest to industry.