Research Labs
The Energy Harvesting and Renewable Energies Laboratory (EHREL) at Electric Power and Power Electronics Center (EPPEC) provide sophisticated instrumentation, test equipment, microprocessor hardware and software development, and a comprehensive collection of commercial software packages. Major equipment in these laboratories include: Desktop computers for the experimental test-beds, Full packages of Matlab/Simulink, PSIM, Saber, ADVISOR, Dymola, Ansoft software, High-power low-voltage and high-power high-voltage power supplies, 100MHZ LeCroy LA302 analog storage oscilloscopes, Digital oscilloscope (LeCroy LT364L, 500MHZ, 500MS/1M/4CH, 1GS/2M/2CH) with PMA1 power measure analysis software, AM503B amplifier, AM503S current probes, digital and analog measurement devices. In addition, the power group computer laboratory equipped with 25 computers and three other computer laboratories with a minimum of 21 PC workstations.

Teaching Labs
Most of the world developed countries heavily rely on the petroleum as the key energy resource to generate electricity and provide transportation needs. The demand to petroleum in the world's developing nations has been increased over the past century and most likely will continue in future. There is consent among specialists that the global supply of petroleum is diminishing. As a result, energy harvesting from renewable energies such as wind, solar, ocean tides, batteries, fuel cells, active human power, passive human power, incident radiation, acoustic noise, vibration, temperature variation, and air flow are being considered as alternative energy sources.

Power Electronic and motor drive are inevitable parts of renewable energy systems. Therefore, the state-of-the-art courses and teaching laboratories at EHREL are focused mainly on introducing principle concepts of their operation. Facilities of teaching laboratory are advanced specialized experimental teaching setups for undergraduate renewable energies, power electronic, motor drives programs. Therefore, this laboratory is one of the best-equipped and most advanced labs for undergraduate teaching purposes in the nation. Our teaching laboratories are appropriate for junior- or senior-level undergraduate electrical engineering and computer engineering students.

Wind Test Facilities
There are various wind tunnels located in the mechanical, materials and aerospace engineering department. The Andrew Fejer Tunnel is a closed-circuit, low-speed facility, driven by an axial-vane fan powered by a 40 hp synchronous motor. The wind-tunnel test section is 0.61m x 0.61m in cross section and 3.1 m. in length. Flow velocities up to 40 m/s can be reached by adjusting an H2-vector drive controller, which controls the fan rotational speed. Screens, honeycombs, and a contraction region upstream of the test section yield a turbulence level of 0.03% at the maximum velocity. Controlled oscillation of a shutter mechanism, mounted at the downstream end of the test section, can produce an unsteady flow component. A controlled, unsteady pitch and plunge motion can also be imparted to a model positioned in the flow.

The Mark V. Morkovin closed-return wind tunnel is of the closed-return type and is capable of running at speeds up to 35 m/s while maintaining turbulence-intensity levels below 0.1 % in the high-speed test section. A 4:1 contraction leads to the 0.91 m-high x 0.61 m-wide x 6 m-long test section. The test boundary layer develops along a mirror-finish aluminum flat plate which is placed 0.3 m above the test section floor, leaving a 0.61 m x 0.61 m flow area on top of the plate. Transition to turbulence is triggered using a flush-mounted 24-grit 0.2-m long sandpaper strip, located about 0.15 m downstream of the leading edge of the flat plate. The streamwise pressure gradient in the test section can be controlled by adjusting the movable test-section ceiling to accommodate the growth of boundary layers. The low-speed test section of the wind tunnel is designed to allow for simulation of atmospheric boundary layer. This allows environmental type of research; e.g., wind effects on sky scrapers and buildings, to be investigated using scaled-down models of the structures of interest.