Laboratory for Empirical Software Testing Research
Software testing is one of the principal Computer Science research areas in the School of EECS. This laboratory is devoted to the study of software testing techniques by empirical means. Research projects being pursued in this lab include the study of techniques for regression testing and for testing object-oriented and component-based software. More ...

Collaborative Research in Microelectronics (CRiME) Laboratory
The CRiME Lab has been equipped in the past year. It has equipment worth $1 million and is housed in a 1,000 square-foot facility. This laboratory is shared between five faculty working in the design of RF/analog mixed-signal communication circuits and systems. The lab has a characterization facility that consists of computer-controlled instrumentation including DC to RF cascade probe stations, device characterization equipment (semiconductor parameter analyzer), mixed-signal circuit characterization equipment (oscilloscopes, RF signal sources, data acquisition, arbitrary waveform generator, logic analyzer), RF devices and circuit characterization equipment (26 GHz spectrum analyzer, 20 GHz network analyzer), and communications test equipment capable of generating almost all digital baseband and RF modulation schemes and performing bit-error-rate and communication channel measurements.

Information Security Laboratory (ISL)
ISL is an organization of faculty and graduate student efforts among the School of EECS, and the Mathematics Department at Oregon State. The ISL performs research and development on the next generation information security technologies. Concepts, tools, and techniques are studied in diverse fields such as computer architecture, theoretical computer science, communications, modern algebra, coding theory, and cryptography. Dr. Çetin K. Koç is the founder and director of ISL.

Interactive Graphics and Vision Lab (IGVL)
The IGVL supports research related to computer graphics and vision. The lab currently consists of several high-end dual processor workstations with state-of-the-art 3D graphics acceleration hardware as well as disk arrays for efficient storage and access of video sequences. The lab is also equipped with cameras and display devices to support computer vision and projection display. The IGVL provides researchers with hardware and software to make progress in research areas including image and video editing and enhancement, special effects, 3D interactive interfaces, character animation, and 3D geometry representation.

Microwave Laboratory
Includes an extensive set of equipment for time-and frequency-domain measurement and characterization of active and passive devices and structures, including electronic packaging and interconnects. The equipment list includes several network analyzers, sampling oscilloscopes with multiple 20 GHz sampling heads, spectrum analyzers and frequency synthesizers, noise figure meter, probe station, and basic EMI measurement equipment. In addition to the measurement facilities, a microwave design software suite and electromagnetic simulators are available.

Motor Systems Resource Facility (MSRF)
Initiated in late 1993 by a consortium of sponsors to meet an identified, growing need for the industrial customer of power utilities. The focus of the facility is its testing laboratory in which electrical machines, adjustable speed drives and variable speed generators, and their related converters and controls can be evaluated. The MSRF is also equipped for power quality and system compatibility research and testing with the addition of a 120kVA fully programmable three-phase source. In addition to testing to recognized industrial standards, the facility is intended as a source of advice, information, reference and instruction in issues and equipment related to electrical machines and their operation.

Optics Laboratories
The undergraduate/graduate Optics Lab in Dearborn 300 houses six floating optical breadboard tables, complete components for physical optics, optoelectronics, and fiber optic experiments, electronic test equipment, Pentium computers interfaced for data acquisition, various laser sources including HeNe, visible and IR diode lasers, CO2 and Nd:YAG, 0.5m spectrometer, Fabry-Perot interferometer, fiber-coupled CCD spectrometer, optical spectrum analyzer and numerous photodetectors. This laboratory is used for undergraduate teaching and fiber Bragg grating sensor research.

The graduate Electro-Optics Laboratory in Owen 433 houses 2 large floating optical tables plus computer controlled systems for photoluminescence, thermoluminescence, and electroluminescence measurements from 10K to 400C. Optical excitation sources include an Ar ion laser, Xe lamp, and a N2-pumped dye laser with doubling crystal. This laboratory also houses a scanning electron microscope (SEM) that is used to examine thin-film and microfabricated structures at up to 2 million times magnification.

Laboratory for Software Engineering and End-User Programming
This research draws from the areas of programming languages, software engineering, and human-computer interaction (HCI). This group of Computer Science faculty and student researchers is working on the issues that arise when end users "program," using "languages" such as spreadsheets, web authoring languages, CAD systems, educational simulation authoring packages, and more. According to research based on U.S. government statistics, there are almost 20 times as many end-user programmers as programmers professionally trained in programming. Our project involves aspects as diverse as the HCI issues of motivating end users to address software quality control, to the program analysis that must be done to infer software quality information, to the design and implementation of new languages and environments for end-user programming.

Solid State Materials & Devices Research Laboratories
Supports the design, fabrication, characterization, and simulation of electronic, optoelectronic, microwave materials, devices, and integrated circuits. Equipment for processing include systems for RF sputtering, ion beam sputtering, thermal and electron beam evaporation, activated reactive evaporation, plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition, reactive ion etching, rapid thermal processing, wet chemical processing, and photolithography. Characterization equipment includes optical and mechanical thin film measurement systems, Auger electron spectroscopy, scanning electron spectroscopy, and measurement systems for the electrical, optoelectronic, and microwave analysis.

SWARM
The SWARM is a computer server built in the Beowulf tradition; i.e., with commodity hardware and freely available software. The development of SWARM has been funded by grants from the National Science Foundation with additional contributions from Oregon State University and Intel. The current SWARM grant supports research in machine learning, computer graphics, and intelligent information access. With more than 100 loosely-coupled CPUs, the SWARM is used to perform large-scale experimental studies. For example, in machine learning, it is applied to compare different learning algorithms and to test alternative designs for new data mining methods. In our information access work, it is applied to test different methods for indexing and retrieving documents from a large collection of scientific documents. The SWARM is also well-suited for Monte Carlo-style computations in which the same program is run many times with different random number seeds and the results are combined to obtain a solution. It is also possible to run parallel programs on the SWARM using C and the MPI (Message Passing Interface) library, though the relatively high latency and low bandwidth of the network means only relatively coarse-grained computations can achieve reasonable speedup on many processors.