Facilities
Facility for Advanced Science and Technology Research (FASTeR)
The Facility for Advanced Science and Technology Research (FASTeR) offers a wide range of services to faculty, staff, and students at Fayetteville State University and external agencies in the southeastern North Carolina region and beyond. Our Facility is committed to supporting cutting-edge research, transformative hands-on education, and technical development at FSU. The FASTeR Analytical Facility will provide state-of-the-art materials processing and characterization capabilities and professional service for faculty, staff, and students at Fayetteville State University and external agencies in the southeastern North Carolina region and beyond, to support cutting-edge research, transformative hands-on education, and technical development.
Prototyping, Validation and Verification Laboratory
A newly established laboratory allows inventors and innovators a chance to demonstrate the feasibility of innovative ideas on a small scale, prove the feasibility and potentially validate the innovation by building a prototype. Building the capabilities for prototyping at the FSU’s Prototyping laboratory is new as of Spring 2015, and is an ongoing activity.
Present prototyping activities include:
The Interdisciplinary Materials Research and Education Laboratory (IMREL)
IMREL was established as a platform to collaboratively conduct interdisciplinary materials research and education at FSU, funded by the National Science Foundation. It houses state-of-the-art research infrastructure, with faculty members from three STEM departments in multi-disciplines, including materials science, physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics and computer science. Part of the infrastructure was supported by the U.S. Army Research Office, Department of Defense.
The Southeastern North Carolina Regional Microanalytical and Imaging Consortium (SENCR-MIC)
The SENCR-MIC at Fayetteville State University is an open platform to conduct sample structural characterizations, funded by the U.S. Army Research Office. It represents critically needed research infrastructure in the southeastern North Carolina region.