The School of Engineering uses a center-based model as shown in this figure. This approach permits maximum interaction among faculty and students in an interdisciplinary framework.
Each department in the KU School of Engineering has access to modern, fully equipped facilities and laboratories. The University's West Campus, in Lawrence, contains the Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis, a multi-university NSF Engineering Research Center, the Space Technology Center, a focal point of NASA-sponsored research; the Energy Research Center, the Center for Excellence in Computer Aided Systems Engineering; the Radar Systems and Remote Sensing Laboratory; the Telecommunications and Information Sciences Laboratory; the Kurata Thermodynamics Laboratory; and the Flight Research Laboratory.
Research facilities on the main campus include the Transportation Research Institute, Infrastructure Research Institute, a variety of computer-integrated manufacturing and computer-aided engineering facilities, Biomechanics Engineering Laboratory, Design Technologies Lab, Tertiary Oil Recovery Project, and the Intelligent Systems and Automation Laboratory.
