Mechanical engineering  students have access to a wide range of laboratory facilities and computing equipment. Laboratories exist for the study of acoustics and vibrations, biomechanics, computer-aided automation, computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer, controls, HVAC, IC engines, life-cycle engineering, and metrology. Computational equipment includes a departmental laboratory with 13 networked PC’s, and College of Engineering laboratories with 20 Linux-based workstations linked together with access to the Internet, and over 130 PCs available for student use. The campus network allows access to the University's Sun compute server and the Alabama Supercomputer Network which houses a CRAY C90.