Laboratories at SFU Engineering
Imagine, Invent, Inspire…
We offer leading-edge research labs along with supervision from dedicated faculty at both our SFU Burnaby and Surrey campuses. Graduate students at SFU are working on key areas of technological development as part of our multiple research labs.
Research Labs
Biomedical Engineering
- Biomedical Optics Research Group Optical Coherence Tomography (BORG)
- Centre for Integrative Bioengineering Research Laboratory - Biosensors and Medical Devices (CiBER)
- Injury Prevention and Mobility Laboratory - Biomechanics of Human Movement (IMPL)
- Medical Image Analysis Laboratory - Computational Anatomy (MIAL)
Bio/micro-Mechatronics
- Biomechatronics Systems Laboratory - Bio-MEMS and Microfluidic Devices
- Smart Sensors and Actuators Lab - Intelligent Sensor and Smart Actuation Systems
- Functional Materials Engineering Lab
Communications
- Communication Networks Laboratory (CNL)
- Multimedia Communications Laboratory
- Wireless Mobile Communications Laboratory Communications Theories and Techniques
- Underwater Research Laboratory Development of Sonar Systems
Energy Systems
- Energy Systems Lab - Sustainable Energy Systems
- Multiscale Thermofluidic Laboratory
- Renewable and Alternative Power Lab - Power Electronics
Systems and Robotics
- Autonomous and Intelligent Systems Laboratory - Autonomous Systems and Intelligent Control
- Diagnostics and Control Laboratory - Systems and Control (DCL)
- Experimental Robotics Laboratory Modelling and Control of Robotic Mechanisms (ERL)
- Intelligent Distributed Enterprise Automation Laboratory Intelligent Agent and Holonic Systems (iDEA)
- Laboratory for Robotic Vision - Computational Robotic Vision (LRV)
- Mechatronics and Robotics for Viable Applications Robotics and Biomimetics (MENVRA)
- Robotic Algorithms and Motion Planning Laboratory Development of Robotic Algorithms (RAMP Lab)
- Underwater Research Laboratory Development of Sonar Systems (URL)
Microelectronics
- Glenn Chapman Laser Laboratory - Laser Applications to Micro-scale Processing
- Image Sensor Reliability Laboratory - Defect Analysis in Digital Image Sensors (ISRL)
- Institute of Micromachine and Microfabrication Research - Micromachine and Microfabrication (IMMR)
- Integrated Multi-Transducer Systems Laboratory Micro-ElectroMechanical System
- Microinstrumentation Laboratory Microsystems for Biomedical Applications (MiL)
- Reconfigurable Computing Laboratory System Design on Heterogeneous Networks-on-Chip (RCL)
- System on Chip Laboratory VLSI Systems
Products and Systems Design
- Product Design and Optimization Lab - Product Design and Optimization