Research Facilities
Northeastern University is a comprehensive urban research university with cutting-edge laboratory and research facilities. In addition to our research centers and institutes and university resources for collaborations and initiatives with the Center for Research Innovation, below are other research facility highlights. View the faculty directory for more information on faculty-specific research labs.
EXP
EXP is Northeastern University’s new eight-story, 357,000-square-foot facility that will further the horizons of science, engineering, teaching, and creating. Opened in fall 2023, it offers eight floors of occupiable space, including a top-floor executive area; a floor primarily dedicated to computational research, or research that uses computing systems to apply mathematical models for solving problems; four floors of teaching and academic research labs; 15,000 square feet of makerspace throughout the building; a cafe and “Ideation” space overlooking a ground-floor robotics area, and much more. The following College of Engineering-led research institutes and centers are located in EXP, including the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things, Institute for Experiential Robotics, and Institute for NanoSystems Innovation. View the EXP facility.
Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex (ISEC)
ISEC is a six-story, 223,000 square foot facility is designed to spur research innovation and collaboration, and is home to the several engineering disciplines and research areas including bioengineering, robotics and wireless communications. ISEC video.
Egan Engineering/Science Research Center
Egan Engineering/Science Research Center is a state-of-the-art research facility that houses more than a dozen laboratories for engineering, physics, chemistry and computer science. The Egan Research Center allows for close collaboration among experimentalists, theoreticians, and fabrication experts where researchers can share laboratories for expensive or heavy equipment that can be important for material characterization and related research on this project. The center is a model of technological sophistication that significantly promotes and advances interdisciplinary research.
Northeastern University Innovation Campus
The 14-acre Innovation Campus in Burlington, Massachusetts, supports research breakthroughs and entrepreneurship, companies, startups, federal agencies, and universities convene. View Innovation Campus facilities.
Massachusetts Green High-Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC)
The MGHPCC supports the growing research computing needs of five of the most research-intensive universities in Massachusetts: Northeastern University, Boston University, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Massachusetts. Located in Holyoke MA, the MGHPCC provides world-class computational infrastructure, indispensible in the increasingly sensor and data-rich environments of modern science and engineering discovery. MGHPCC is powered by a combination of green and cost-competitive energy, making it a cost-effective and environmentally sound facility.