Washington and Lee University
Offices, laboratories, and classrooms for physics and engineering are located in Howe Hall, in the science center 
complex. In addition to general laboratories for introductory courses, there are teaching laboratories dedicated to electronics, digital data acquisition, nuclear physics, fluid mechanics, solid mechanics, and optics. Other spaces are dedicated to faculty research, a seminar room, and office space for senior majors and students participating in department research.
Computer network access is available on campus through wired and wireless connections, facilitating cooperative work between faculty and students. Instructional technology is available in every classroom, and within the science center there are both university computing labs open to all students, and departmental computer labs for the use of students majoring in the specific department. In addition, a classroom with over 20 high performance computers allows specialized instruction in Computer Aided Design and Drafting (CADD) and other high end applications.
“The Inferno,” a centralized Beowulf cluster computing system, provides high-performance computing for many of the science departments at Washington and Lee. The system supports both teaching and research activities and is used by both faculty and students for a wide range of problems. Some of these include large-scale computations in areas such as bioinformatics and biomedical engineering, and research and development of parallel algorithms.
Teaching and research equipment includes elementary particle counting and analyzing electronics, an optical table with extensive accessories, a wind tunnel, and a solid mechanics load frame. Other research equipment includes a scanning electron microscope, magnetic resonance apparatus, ion and dye lasers, scanning calorimeters, and thermo-mechanical analyzers.