The Undergraduate Projects and Research Laboratory, is mainly used for facilitating modeling and simulation projects-based instruction in both lower and upper division undergraduate levels. This also involves courses in the major with a significant laboratory component. The Laboratory can accommodate 24 students with laptop computers and provide 5 workstations for undergraduate labs and research. Each workstation contains a high performance computer and collaboration spaces. The lab also contains a Polycom Teleconference system to support distance learning. The lab is equipped with 3 digital projectors to support teaching.

The Medical Simulations Laboratory is mainly used to support teaching and research activities related to medical simulations for planning, training, education, analysis and visualization. It contains 15 high performance PC workstations, 4 haptic devices, three 3D scanners, two 3D printers, 4 reach-in displays, 3 LCD TVs, 3 game consoles from Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo. The laboratory is also equipped with a large selection of software such as Autodesk Maya, Google SketchUp, Microsoft XNA Game Studio, Unity Game Engine, and ArcGIS.

The Applied M&S Research Laboratory is the third laboratory area. This graduate research laboratory contains PC workstations and spaces for 10 graduate students and also supports faculty/VMASC collaborative research activities. Several research topics are conducted in this laboratory including high performance computing, cyber security, simulation architectures, transportation systems, military M&S, digital manufacturing, and enterprise decision support. Visualization of these is also a significant part of these areas.

The Collaborative Autonomous Systems Laboratory supports instructional and multidisciplinary research activities related to autonomous systems. This forth laboratory area is shared with the mechanical and aerospace department. CMSE maintains 4 PC workstations and 10 various types of robotic systems. The lab contains an area dedicated to cyber security research as related to collaborative autonomous systems.

The CAVE (Cave Automated Virtual Environment) Virtual Reality laboratory area contains several 3D visualization systems. The CAVE is a high-resolution projection-screen virtual reality system. The screens are arranged in a 10 foot cube with computer-generated images projected on three walls and a floor. The CAVE lab also contains a 3 meter Vision Dome projection system and an Immersa-Desk virtual reality display. Two 3D printers are also placed in the CAVE Lab.

The Advanced Engineering Environments (AEE) laboratory serves as a focal point for the diverse research activities pertaining to Collaborative distributed Engineering Knowledge discovery and exploitation, intelligent synthesis, and advanced learning technologies, and their application to complex engineering systems. These activities include the synergistic coupling of modeling, visual simulations, intelligent agents, multimedia and synthetic environments, human-computer interactions, computational intelligence, computational, information and collaboration technologies in the multidisciplinary analysis, sensitivity studies, optimization, design and operation of complex engineering systems. The laboratory is located at the Old Dominion University Peninsula Higher Education Center in Hampton, Virginia and contains networked advanced 3D display and projection equipment (for collaborative distributed visualization research), virtual holography tablets, and 12 computing workstations and a variety of 3D display and projection equipment. The facility is supported by BCET in equipment and maintenance.

For more information, please visit the Advanced Engineering Environments Laboratory website.