The department has modern, well-equipped laboratories that support the research and graduate study activities of the department. These laboratories include the:

In addition, to these facilities, the department actively participates in the research programs of The Calspan-University at Buffalo Research Center, The Center for Bio-medical Engineering, The Center for Advanced Photonic and Electronic Materials and The Center for Multisource Information Fusion

Assistive Device Design Laboratory

Emphasis is on actually constructing a device that has been designed for a specific disabled person to improve their quality of life and provide greater self-sufficient capability. Some devices are of general enough nature to also be of use to non-disabled persons. A major sponsor of the Laboratory, currently in its second five-year funding cycle, is The National Science Foundation, as one of about twenty awardees in the United States. Creativity and innovation are de rigueur and design and construction is expedited by computer tools and a well-staffed and equipped machine shop. Ten to twenty devices are typically designed and constructed per year with several U.S. patents awarded and foreign patents pending.

Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

The primary objective of the laboratory is to provide resources to conduct research in the field of fluid mechanics, combustion, heat and mass transfer, applied mathematics and numerical methods. The emphasis of the current research in this laboratory is on understanding physics rather than developing numerical algorithms. These activities have been sponsored by NASA, the Office of Naval Research, the National Science Foundation, the American Chemical Society, and Ford Motor Company, among others. Several areas of current investigation are: turbulent mixing, chemically reacting flows, high speed combustion and propulsion, magnetohydrodynamics and plasma physics. The numerical methodologies in use consist of spectral methods (collocation, Galerkin), varieties of finite difference, finite volume and finite element schemes, Lagrangian methods, and many hybrid methods such as spectral-finite element and spectral-finite difference schemes. The Laboratory is equipped with high-speed computer graphic systems and state-of-the-art hardware and software for "inflow visualization." Most computations require the use of off-site supercomputers.