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CIRCUITS I LABORATORY:  The purpose of the Circuits I Laboratory is to:

• Introduce the student to the use of electrical test equipment, familiarize with the safety requirements, and laboratory procedures.
• Provide the student laboratory experiences that serve as a bridge between theory and practice.
• Provide experiences in the use of computer for circuit analysis, data acquisition and data analysis.
• Provide experiences in data analysis, written communication and teamwork.

DIGITAL LOGIC DESIGN LABORATORY: The objective of the Digital Logic Design Laboratory is to

• provide the student experiences, in the design, to setup and use the digital laboratory equipment to conduct experiments, collect and analyze data.
• Present technical reports using modern tools and gain experiences while working as member of a team.
• Gain experiences in the design of combinatorial and sequential logic circuits, counters, and microprocessor architecture and programming.

ELECTRONICS LABORATORY: The objective of the Electronics Laboratory is to

• Provide the student competency in analyzing circuits that include applications of Op-Amps, transistors and diodes, and to design single and multi-stage amplifier circuits, and filters.
• The student should also learn to use software packages such as PSpice for analysis and design, present results of analysis in written reports using modern tools, and participate as a member of a team.

CONTROL SYSTEMS LABORATORY: The objective of the Control Systems Laboratory is to

• provide experiences in analyzing and designing open loop and closed loop position and velocity control systems.
• Allow students to conduct tests and design projects related to servo motor control.

ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS DESIGN LABORATORY: The objective of the Electrical Systems Design Laboratory is to

• provide the student team design experiences.
• Students working in teams of two to three students will design complex electrical and electronic systems from the areas of communication systems, power systems, control systems and digital systems.
• Students also gain experiences in oral and written communication using modern tools and discuss impact of their design on society while considering ethics, safety, standards and constraints in their designs.

INTELLIGENT SIGNAL PROCESSING LABORATORY: The objective of the Intelligent Signal Processing Laboratory and Biomedical Engineering is to

• Provide the faculty and students a computer and instrumentation facility for research in the areas of Intelligent Signal Processing, Image Processing and Biomedical Engineering applications.
• Conduct research is in the areas of Neuro network applications to signal processing, Health Monitoring , predictive and preventive maintenance, nonlinear signal analysis using chaos analysis, wavelets and traditional signal processing and image processing techniques and recently added Biomedical engineering.
• Graduate and undergraduate students gain research experiences and develop Special Topics and Capstone Design Projects.
• Students also gain experiences in presentation of their projects and design project reports.
  
  

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESEARCH LABORATORY: The objective of the Renewable Energy Research Laboratory is to

• Provide research facility for research in Wind Power and Control and Communication requirements for Smooth Interface between utility and the Wind Power conversion System.
• Provide facility for videoconferencing and Unix workstations.

INTELLIGENT CONTROL SYSTEMS LABORATORY: The objective of the Intelligent Control Systems Laboratory is to provide research facility for research in Intelligent Controllers and Robot Applications to predictive maintenance and biological systems and telepresence.

CYBERSECURITY LABORATORY (CSL): The Cybersecurity Laboratory (CSL) is directed by Dr. Kamrul Hasan and serves as a multidisciplinary research and visualization facility dedicated to advancing secure, trustworthy, and privacy-preserving cyber systems. CSL maintains active collaborations with government agencies, academic institutions, and industry partners to develop next-generation security mechanisms that emphasize reliability, explainability, and user-centric design.

CSL’s research vision is to transform cyber defense from a largely reactive and heuristic practice into a verifiable, enforceable, quantifiable, and automated discipline. To this end, the laboratory integrates theoretical foundations, system-level engineering, and experimental validation across multiple cybersecurity domains. The CSL team comprises Tennessee State University faculty, graduate researchers, and external collaborators with expertise spanning data security and privacy, secure software systems, end-system and operating-system protection, network and distributed systems security, and the protection of critical cyber-physical infrastructures.

A distinguishing feature of CSL is its Cyber-Physical Critical Infrastructure (CPCI) testbed, which enables realistic experimentation on the convergence of information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT). The testbed supports physical OT connections through programmable logic controllers (PLCs) interfaced with high-fidelity simulators, allowing researchers to model and evaluate cyber-attacks and defenses in safety-critical environments. The IT environment is fully configurable, enabling the creation of diverse attack vectors, including advanced persistent threats, living-off-the-land techniques, and cross-domain IT/OT attack scenarios.

In addition, CSL hosts a virtualized cluster server infrastructure that supports a secure, private research network for large-scale experimentation. This environment enables the deployment and evaluation of distributed security analytics, encrypted computation, zero-trust architectures, and AI/ML-driven cyber defense mechanisms under controlled and repeatable conditions.

Together, these facilities position CSL as a state-of-the-art experimental platform for research aligned with NSF priorities in secure and trustworthy cyberspace, providing the necessary infrastructure to design, implement, and rigorously validate advanced cybersecurity solutions for modern cyber-physical systems.