The Wm. Michael Barnes '64 Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISEN) provides researchers access to state-of-the-art computational, experimental, and observational facilities. Our graduate and undergraduate researchers work in specialized departmental labs and leverage Texas A&M’s world-class university research infrastructure to conduct pioneering work across our core engineering disciplines.
Departmental Research Laboratories
Our faculty direct specialized laboratories focused on solving complex challenges in operations research, data science, human systems engineering, and advanced manufacturing.
Smart Manufacturing Lab
Director: Dr. Satish Bukkapatnam
Safety in Aerospace and Flight Environments (SAFE) Lab
Director: Dr. Nancy J. Currie-Gregg
Networked Multiagent Systems Lab
Director: Dr. Ceyhun Eksin
Human Factors and Cognitive Systems Lab
Director: Dr. Thomas Ferris
Applied Cognitive Ergonomics Lab
Director: Dr. Farzan Sasangohar
Manufacturing Intelligence and Nanosystem Design Lab
Dr. Shiren Wang
Human-System Interaction Lab
Dr. Maryam Zahabi
Institutional & University-Wide Facilities
In addition to departmental labs, ISEN researchers benefit from Texas A&M University’s extensive Tier-1 research ecosystem. Our students and faculty regularly utilize flagship campus centers and core facilities:
- Texas Makes: A premier Texas A&M engineering initiative uniting industry, academia, and government to advance smart manufacturing innovation, high-value material processing, and next-generation production technologies.
- Advanced Manufacturing Facility: Housed under Texas Makes, this facility provides cutting-edge hardware, precision machining, and experimental fabrication infrastructure for scalable advanced manufacturing research.
- AggieFab Nanofabrication Facility (AggieFab): A university-wide micro- and nanofabrication cleanroom facility offering state-of-the-art equipment for lithography, thin-film deposition, etching, and micro-device prototyping.
- Materials Characterization Facility (MCF): Supported by the Division of Research (VPR), TEES, and the College of Engineering, this multi-user core facility provides advanced electron, ion, and optical microscopy, as well as comprehensive surface and interfacial analysis for internal and external research partners.
- High Performance Research Computing (HPRC): Delivers supercomputing resources, massive data storage, and high-performance GPU/CPU clusters (such as Grace and Faster) for computational optimization, machine learning, and large-scale simulation modeling.
- VISION Supercomputer: Texas A&M's next-generation AI supercomputer, designed to accelerate cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data-intensive computational science across the university and The Texas A&M University System with unprecedented computing power and advanced AI capabilities.
- Texas A&M Institute of Data Science (TAMIDS): Bridges interdisciplinary computing resources, data analytics expertise, and collaborative research initiatives spanning engineering, science, and industry partners.
- Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES): A statewide engineering research agency providing specialized testing facilities, commercialization support, and industry collaboration hubs.