page_title: University of Alabama in Huntsville
section_title: Facilities
hierarchical_section_title: University of Alabama in Huntsville / Facilities
caption_attribution_description: English: The Optics Building in UAH
context_page_description: The University of Alabama in Huntsville is a public research university in Huntsville, Alabama. The university is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award baccalaureate, master's, and doctoral degrees, and comprises nine colleges: arts, humanities & social sciences; business; education; engineering; honors; nursing; professional & continuing studies; science; and graduate. The university's enrollment is approximately 10,000.
  UAH is one of three members of the University of Alabama System, which includes the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. All three institutions operate independently, with only the president of each university reporting to the Board of Trustees of the system.
context_section_description: The College of Science houses the Alabama High Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Center, which is dedicated to providing modern high field NMR capabilities to academic and corporate researchers in the state of Alabama and surrounding areas.
  UAH's Earth System Science Center is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of the Earth as an integrated system with an emphasis on space- and ground-based remote sensing data.
  UAH's Department of Biological Sciences partners with the Dauphin Island Sea Lab to offer research opportunities to UAH students through the Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium.
  UAH's Psychology Department has eight research labs: Lifelong Learning, Memory and Cognition, Personality Testing and Assessment, Privacy in Cyberspace, Psychobiology, Teamwork and Social Cognition, Employee Engagement and Productivity, and Leadership and Organizational Behavior.
  UAH's Propulsion Research Center connects the academic research community and the propulsion community through interdisciplinary collaboration in the following areas: aerospace materials and structures, computational modeling, energy and power systems, fusion propulsion and power, plasmas and combustion, propellants and energetics, and propulsion systems integration.
  UAH's College of Engineering is home to the following labs:
  Advanced Digital Hardware Design Lab
  Communication Systems Laboratory
  Controls and Dynamic Systems Lab
  Cyber Chargers Security Lab
  ECE Systems Design Lab
  Electronics Laboratory
  Integrated Biometrics Lab
  LaCASA - Computer Architecture Research Lab
  MEMS Fabrication Lab
  MHealth - Mobile Health and Wellness Monitoring Lab
  Multimedia Development Lab
  Multicore Reconfigurable and GPU
  Enabled Parallel Computing Lab
  RF Circuits and Devices Lab
  Software Safety Engineering and Security Lab
  Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Security Lab
  Linux Labs I and II
  Photonics Lab
  Optoelectronics
  Optical Hybrid Computing
  Nano-Microfabrication Laboratory
  Laser Science and Engineering Lab
  Transistor and MEMS Undergraduate Microfabrication Lab
  Ubiquitous Computing Lab
  UAH's Kinesiology Research Lab, located in the College of Education, has an underwater treadmill that enables students to conduct aquatic exercise research on adults with type 2 diabetes and lower-limb amputation.
  SWIRLL (Severe Weather Institute – Radar and Lightning Laboratories) is a core research facility dedicated to research on severe and hazardous weather, radar meteorology, lightning meteorology, lightning physics, and air quality. It comprises a research operations center with multiple workstations, a high bay used for the maintenance and fabrication of comprehensive mobile platforms and other instruments, a sounding preparation lab, and five roof platforms to support instrument testing and data collection.
  UAH's Learning and Technology Resource Center, located in the College of Nursing, offers high-tech, hands-on clinical experience thanks to its high-fidelity simulators, telehealth robots, and laboratory spaces.
  UAH's Early Learning Center, an outreach and service unit of the College of Education, provides inclusive early childhood education for children in developmentally appropriate classrooms.
caption: UAH Optics Building
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