Instructional and Research Laboratories

 

 

CIRCUITS I INSTRUCTIONAL LABORATORY

The objectives of the Circuits I Laboratory are to:

  • Introduce the students to the use of electrical test equipment, familiarize with the safety requirements, and laboratory procedures.
  • Provide the students with 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.

 

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DIGITAL LOGIC DESIGN INSTRUCTIONAL LABORATORY

The objectives of the Digital Logic Design Laboratory are to:

  • Provide the student experiences, in the design, to setup and use of the digital laboratory equipment to conduct experiments, collect and analyze data.
  • Prepare 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.

 

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ELECTRONICS INSTRUCTIONAL LABORATORY

The objectives of the Electronics Laboratory are to:

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

 

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EMBEDDED SYSTEMS INSTRUCTIONAL LABORATORY

The objectives of the Embedded Systems Laboratory are to:

  • Provide students with hands-on experiences in the analysis, design, programming, and testing of embedded and real-time systems using microcontrollers and embedded processors.
  • Familiarize students with embedded hardware and software development tools, including integrated development environments, debuggers, and laboratory instrumentation.
  • Develop competency in interfacing microcontrollers with sensors, actuators, displays, communication modules, and data acquisition systems.
  • Reinforce hardware–software integration concepts through laboratory experiments and design-oriented projects.
  • Develop skills in teamwork, technical documentation, and oral and written communication using modern engineering tools.

 

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CONTROL SYSTEMS INSTRUCTIONAL LABORATORY

The objectives of the Control Systems Laboratory are to:

  • Provide students with hands-on experiences in analyzing, modeling, and designing open-loop and closed-loop control systems.
  • Introduce students to time-domain and frequency-domain analysis techniques for position, speed, and process control systems.
  • Allow students to conduct laboratory experiments and design projects involving servo motors, sensors, actuators, and feedback control.
  • Reinforce theoretical concepts through simulation, experimentation, and performance evaluation of control systems.
  • Develop skills in teamwork, data analysis, technical reporting, and the use of modern control and simulation tools.

 

ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS DESIGN INSTRUCTIONAL LABORATORY

The purposes of the Electrical Systems Design Laboratory are to:

  • Provide the students with team design experiences.
  • Students working in teams of two to three students will design complex electrical and electronic engineering systems from the areas of communication systems, power systems, control systems, digital logic, and embedded systems.
  • Students also gain experiences in oral and written communication skills using modern tools and discuss global impact of their designs on economics and society while considering ethics, safety, codes and standards, and other constraints in their designs.

 

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RENEWABLE ENERGY RESEARCH LABORATORY

The objectives of the Renewable Energy Research Laboratory are to:

• Facilitate student engagement in research projects, including thesis work and capstone design.
• Conduct cutting-edge research on different energy generation, energy storage, microgrids, and intelligent power systems.
• Develop innovative technologies that address real-world challenges in smart grids, electric vehicles, power system cybersecurity, 5G communication, and AI/ML applications for energy systems.
• Provide research opportunities and mentorship for graduate and undergraduate students to gain hands-on experience in advanced energy systems and related tools.
• Collaboration on funded projects spanning power systems, communications, and resilience.

 

AUTONOMOUS AND INTELLIGENT CYBER PHYSICAL SYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY

The AI-CPS Lab is used for research activities related to the study of CPS which tightly integrates technologies in wireless communications, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), control, and cybersecurity. It is located in Room 13 of the Research and Sponsored Programs (RSP) building with over 600 square feet of laboratory space. The purpose of the AI-CPS Lab is to:

  • stimulate and direct the development of frameworks and tools that taking into account the practical and realistic behavior of a complex real-world CPS, 
  • provide a hardware testbed that allow faculty and students to test the practical applicability of the techniques developed,
  • catalyze interdisciplinary efforts to deal with highly complicated systems and problems, and 
  • enable research-based education and outreach activities.

 

INTELLIGENT CONTROL SYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY

The objective of the Intelligent Control Systems Laboratory is to provide research facility for graduate and undergraduate students’ research in intelligent control systems, robotics and autonomous systems, and applications of AI/ML to systems diagnostics, prognostics and to predictive maintenance of engineering systems.

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CYBERSECURITY RESEARCH LABORATORY

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.

 





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