Facilities
The newly renovated Russ Research Opportunity Center is a collaborative research building that lives in the Russ College of Engineering and Technology and allows students and faculty to engage in research and utilize dynamic spaces close to campus. It will serve as a new space for research and collaboration, both within Russ College and across multiple disciplinaries. Russ Research Opportunity Center to create collaborative campus research
The Russ College operates state-of-the-art research and training facilities in several locations just off campus. Ten miles away at the Ohio University Airport, the Francis B. Fuller Aviation Training Center
serves as the training ground for aviation students, and the Avionics Engineering Center
in the McFarland Avionics Avionics Engineering Center Building
at the airport is part of the only avionics facility of its kind in the U.S.
On the west side of Athens, the Institute for Corrosion and Multiphase Technology
operates the largest laboratory in the world for simulating and testing multiphase flow regimes and complex corrosion environments. Nearby, the Institute for Sustainable Energy and the Environment
houses groundbreaking research in alternative fuels, waste remediation, and sustainable materials. Pioneering research into algae as fuel feedstock is the main focus of the Biofuels Research Lab
in the Ridges buildings on south campus. In Lancaster, the Ohio Research Institute for Transportation and the Environment
researchers use the $2.5M Accelerated Pavement Load Facility and the National Asphalt Laboratory to test pavement materials and construction under controlled conditions.
The Digital Enterprise Collaboratory
(The DEC) is a physical-virtual site for conducting digital engineering research, education and training. The DEC supports digital transformation efforts by allowing industry, academia, and government teams to easily collaborate through a turnkey facility with access to state-of-the-art digital engineering hardware, software, and videoconferencing capabilities.
Equipment
From our fleet of glass-panel instructional aircraft to our $1.67 million transmission electron microscope for investigating nanomaterials for alternative energy studies, the Russ College offers research equipment that is state-of-the-art. Each of our departments, laboratories, research centers and institutes maintains an array of means for investigating ways to create for good in each field. Whether you want to build more durable highways with the help of our 30-foot mobile Civil Infrastructure Lab or ensure environmental safety with oil pipeline corrosion prevention systems developed in our $5 million multi-phase flow rigs , we provide the tools you need to engineer a better future.