UAH's Aerophysics Research Center (ARC), at the U.S. Army's Redstone
Arsenal, houses three "soft" launch, two-stage light gas gun systems and
extensive support facilities. These include instrumentation and data-
gathering equipment and laboratories, test chambers, and model and
target fabrication shops.
UAH's Center for Applied Optics advances optical science and engineering
research and development in support of high technology educational,
industrial and government interests and requirements. The center
includes eleven faculty and staff, with 23 affiliated faculty and staff
from UAH's academic departments. The center includes CAD and
optomechanical design facilities, as well as diamond turning, optical
fabrication, metrology, holography, testing and prototyping of
state-of-the-art optical components and systems.
UAH's Center for Microgravity and Materials Research (CMMR) seeks to
provide theoretical and experimental underpinning for the optimal use of
low-gravity conditions for materials processing and more fundamental
physico-chemical investigations.
UAH's Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) is
dedicated to fostering excellence in research and graduate education in
the study of plasmas and atmospheres in the solar system and
astrophysical environments.
Consortium for Materials Development in Space
UAH's Consortium for Materials Development in Space (CMDS) is a NASA
Commercial Space Center. The CMDS sponsors industry-supported
projects in materials development that show commercial potential.
Activities focus on developing specific materials, addressing generic
processes or equipment for product development, and pursuing space
investigations that generate knowledge of value in Earth-based
processes.
UAH's Earth System Science Laboratory (ESSL) was created to encourage
interdisciplinary study of the Earth as an integrated system across
traditional boundaries.
UAH's Information Technology and Systems Laboratory was established to
address large-scale data and information problems. The laboratory
performs research in several information technology areas, including
design, development and management of large scientific databases and
knowledge bases; developing state-of-the-art distributed information
management systems providing access to multi-level data in support of
NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System; developing
advanced searching techniques, such as content-based data mining
technology to permit the discovery of scientifically-significant
phenomena within large data holdings; and developing security-oriented
inference detection techniques.
UAH's Laboratory for Integrated Computing and Optoelectronic Systems (LICOS)
conducts research in the general areas of computer, communictations and
sensor components and systems, including microelectronic and
optoelectronic devices and system simulation, design, fabrication and
testing.
The Laboratory for Materials and Surface Sciences is a
multidisciplinary, interdepartmental center embracing faculty and
research staff from several academic programs, including chemistry,
physics, electrical and computer engineering, chemical and materials
engineering, and soon to add biological sciences. This is complemented
by about $2.5 million of equipment for materials characterization. This
includes the atomic force microscopy lab, which has three atomic force
microscopes.
Based in a "core facility" adjacent to the UAH campus, the National
Space Science and Technology Center (NSSTC) will be a partnership
between NASA and the Space Science and Technology Alliance (SSTA).
UAH's Propulsion Research Center serves the propulsion community through
propulsion-related research, and encourages the implementation of
propulsion-related studies at both the graduate and undergraduate
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