Research Cores
What we offer
We recognize that projects differ widely in scope, budget, and period of performance. Therefore, we customize our offerings to meet your needs. To achieve this, we apply standard best practices in the engineering discipline as a framework. Drawn from a combination of the ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems Standard and the INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook, we emphasize establishing and maintaining common expectations. Following this approach ensures that project requirements developed collectively at the start of the project guide its scope, resulting in efficient and satisfactory outcomes.
If we don’t have it available or have access to it at FAU, we can find it for you and arrange for almost anything your project needs. Just ask!
Common services offered
- Project planning and management
- Engineering design
- Equipment specification, recommendations and acquisition
- Fabrication and assembly management
- Test planning, execution, data management and reporting
- Desktop modeling and simulation
- Laboratory management
- Equipment rental
- Equipment operation
- Regulatory support
Access to research tools
Instrumentation
- 75, 300, 600 KHz RDI Workhorse ADCPs
- 6 MHz Nortek Velocimeter
- 150 kHz RDI Ocean Surveyor small-vessel transect ADCP
- SeaBird 9 plus CTD with several sensors and more than 2000 meters of coaxial electro-mechanical cable
- Benthos acoustic modems and releases
- LinkQuest acoustic modem pair
- Biosonics split-beam acoustic system (120 kHz/38 kHz)
- XBT Launcher
- Various mooring floatation systems
Software Licenses and Expertise
- Mathworks MatLab, Simulink, xPC Target
- Solidworks
- OrcaFlex
Vessels and Vehicles
- R/V Ocean Power
- R/V Lee
- 2008 GMC 3500HD long bed dual 4x4 truck
- Off-road 6,000 lb. forklift