Advanced Sustainable Materials & Manufacturing

The Lab for Education and Application Prototypes is a partnership between WPI and Quinsigamond Community College. LEAP @ WPI/QCC houses equipment and facilities needed to prototype integrated photonics devices and develop the workforce that will manufacture them.

WPI’s 20,300-square-foot Advanced Manufacturing Center at 15 Sagamore Road is home to modern laboratories where researchers are working on additive manufacturing, clean battery production, industrial drying technologies, and more. 

Labs focused on metal processing are housed in the Washburn Shops, with resources that enable researchers to explore the design, characterization, and processing of new materials.

The Materials Characterization Lab provides instruments for electron microscopy (SEM, TEM), x-ray diffraction, optical microscopy (conventional and inverted), physical property determination (hardness and micro indentation hardness), and materials processing (specimen preparation, heat treatment, metal evaporation and sputtering). 

The Integrative Materials Design Center offers access to specimen preparation and characterization tools, cutters, polishers, optical microscopes, and more for the design of high-performance and sustainable materials.

The Lab for Education and Application Prototypes is a partnership between WPI and Quinsigamond Community College. LEAP @ WPI/QCC houses equipment and facilities needed to prototype integrated photonics devices and develop the workforce that will manufacture them.