Integrated Science and Engineering Center (ISEC)

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A fortunate collision of ideas

In ISEC, students and faculty from many disciplines collaborate, innovate and exchange ideas. Lean into your passion for research and reasoning in well-equipped labs and classrooms devoted to biological sciences, chemistry, physics and astronomy, mechanical engineering, and electrical, computer and biomedical engineering.

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Do cutting-edge work on the particle accelerator or in our molecular biology suites. Attend a weekly chemistry seminar series. Or chat among yourselves in comfortable lounges and other inviting gathering spaces.

This complex features the glass-walled Ainlay Hall, home to labs and classrooms for biology, chemistry, physics, computer science, and mechanical engineering. Union is known for world class instrumentation and NSF-funded research on par with top research institutions. Specialized tools available for student use include a tandem Pelletron accelerator, located in the Ion-Beam Analysis Lab, as well as a 400 MHz nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, micro CT scanner and other sophisticated instrumentation, and a thermal science and fluid mechanics lab

Students and faculty working around the particle accelerator in the basement of ISEC.

In an anatomy classroom, students are gathered around a table, diligently studying with an anatomical model.

Globes lined up in one of the classrooms in the ISEC building.

A student writes chemical equations on a partition glass wall in ISEC as another student looks on.