Hands-on engineering and IT learning in industry-ready spaces.
Learning engineering and IT at UTS is never just theory. Our facilities are designed to put you in studios, labs and project spaces that feel more like the workplaces than a classroom. You’ll design, build, and test with the same tools used in industry, work in multidisciplinary teams, and tackle real projects with our partners. It’s an environment designed to grow your skills, confidence, and career readiness from day one.
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IT facilities
Cybersecurity Precinct
The Cybersecurity Precinct is where students and researchers build digital resilience in a world of rapidly evolving threats. This next-generation space provides realistic training and simulation environments that mirror real-world attack scenarios, empowering users to test responses, strengthen capability, and co-design solutions that safeguard critical systems. Whether you’re upskilling, collaborating or exploring advanced security challenges, this purpose-built precinct is ready to support your cybersecurity goals.
Games Studio
The Games Studio is a collaborative space where students and academics work together to shape the future of gaming technologies. Here, you can explore and create solutions that go beyond entertainment—developing serious games for education and training, advancing augmented reality experiences, designing intelligent game AI, and crafting interactive storytelling. The studio also supports research into collaborative virtual environments and next-generation game design, giving you the tools and expertise to turn creative ideas into impactful innovations.
Internetworking Laboratory
As a Cisco Networking Academy, we provide access to five cutting-edge internetworking laboratories equipped with the latest Cisco Systems hardware. These labs are designed to give you hands-on experience in configuring and managing complex networks in environments that mirror real-world challenges. Each workstation supports multiple virtual machines through a Xen-based virtualisation infrastructure, allowing you to experiment with guest operating systems and advanced networking tasks with full administrative control. Whether you’re building foundational skills or tackling specialised projects, these labs offer the tools and flexibility to prepare you for industry-ready roles.
Graphics and Game Design Laboratory
The Graphics and Game Design Laboratory gives you a creative and technically advanced environment to bring ideas to life through design, animation, and interactive storytelling. Equipped with industry-standard tools such as GameMaker Studio, Unity3D, and Houdini Apprentice, this space is designed for students and collaborators who want to explore computer graphics and game development in depth. Here, you can experiment with cutting-edge software, prototype interactive experiences, and develop skills that prepare you for the future of digital media and gaming innovation.
Software Development Studio
Our Software Development Studio offers an interdisciplinary space where students collaborate on real-world industry projects in a professional, project-driven environment. This dynamic studio is designed to help you elevate your software development skills, gain practical experience, and work as part of teams that mirror industry practice. Here, you can tackle complex challenges, apply cutting-edge methodologies, and build a portfolio that prepares you for the next step in your career.
Engineering facilities
Power Systems Laboratory
The Power Systems Laboratory gives students hands-on access to industry-standard tools for exploring real-world electrical power systems. With 12 dedicated workstations, this space lets students experiment with single-and three-phase supplies, motor construction, and power system protection. They learn how power generation works, understand load sharing, and measure motor performance, building a solid foundation in practical power engineering principles that prepare them for professional challenges.
Control Laboratory
The Control Laboratory gives you hands-on access to advanced tools for designing and testing control systems in environments that mirror real-world challenges. With 12 specialised stations equipped with scale models of industrial systems, including gantry cranes, this space allows students to model, design, and implement controllers with confidence. They gain practical experience in both analog and digital control methods, building skills that prepare them for complex engineering applications.
Signals Laboratory
The Signals Laboratory gives you hands-on access to advanced tools for electrical signal measurement and processing in environments that reflect real-world challenges. With 16 dedicated stations equipped with oscilloscopes, waveform generators, power supplies, and multimeters, this space lets you work with telecommunications trainers and data acquisition systems to complete tasks such as analogue modulation and signal feedback control. Designed for later stages of study, the lab helps you build practical expertise that prepares you for complex engineering applications.
Junior Circuits Laboratory
The Junior Circuits Laboratory is a foundational space featuring 50 stations for first-year Electrical, Mechanical, Mechatronics, and ICT students. Each workstation is equipped with essential industry tools such as digital storage oscilloscopes and function generators, enabling students to build and test low-voltage circuits as they develop core engineering skills.
Embedded Software Laboratory
The Embedded Software Laboratory focuses on microcontroller programming and gives students hands-on access to flexible microcontroller boards, PCs with compiler software, and testing equipment. This space is designed to help students program, test, and refine their microcontroller-based projects, gaining practical experience in embedded systems development that prepares them for real-world applications.
Embedded Projects Laboratory
The Embedded Projects Laboratory is where advanced ideas come to life. Designed for hands-on work in analogue and digital electronics, including capstone projects, this space offers state-of-the-art facilities for circuit board assembly and project development. With a focus on supporting small groups, it provides students with uninterrupted time and resources for tackling complex, long-term engineering challenges—helping you move from concept to fully realised solutions.
Environmental Engineering Biological Process Research Laboratory
This lab is designed for safe, hands-on research with microorganisms, genetically modified organisms and low-risk aerosols. While it’s a core hub for our postgraduate community, final-year biomedical and environmental engineering students also step in to tackle their honours projects and gain real experience working alongside active research teams. The lab is equipped with the essential tools of biological science, from autoclaves and fume hoods to incubators and advanced microscopes, providing learners with everything they need to explore environmental and biological processes with confidence and curiosity.
Manufacturing and Materials Laboratory
Our upgraded Manufacturing and Materials Laboratory is designed with tools to create, test, and prototype with confidence. The space supports advanced materials testing, machining, and additive manufacturing, enabling rapid iteration and sustainable design. Whether you’re working on aerospace components, biomedical devices, or industrial applications, you can collaborate with experts to explore new materials and production techniques and bring your ideas to life.
Infrastructure Robotics Laboratory
The Infrastructure Robotics Laboratory leads innovation in robotics for the inspection and maintenance of civil structures. This space is designed to reduce risks for workers by enabling remote data collection and maintenance in hazardous environments. Its research strengths include advanced sensor development, data fusion, machine learning, and robotics—bridging fundamental research challenges with real-world industry needs to deliver safer, smarter solutions.
The Intelligent Robotics Laboratory
This laboratory develops robots that work safely alongside humans, supporting them in a wide range of tasks. These systems are designed to understand and respond to human intentions, creating seamless and intuitive collaboration. The goal is to reduce both the mental and physical load on workers while keeping humans firmly in control, with robots providing essential, intelligent assistance.
Human Robot Interaction Laboratory
The Human–Robot Interaction Laboratory is at the forefront of social robotics, advancing research that brings robots beyond industrial environments and into everyday life. This space explores how people engage with robots, with the goal of making robotic systems more intuitive, approachable, and trusted. By bridging the gap between emerging robotics technologies and public acceptance, the lab helps shape solutions that feel natural and safe for human interaction.
Dynamics and Mechanics of Solids Laboratory
The Dynamics & Mechanics of Solids Laboratory is a hands-on teaching and research space where students learn how forces, stresses and motion shape real-world structures and machines. The lab supports second and third-year mechanics and dynamics units, honours projects and postgraduate research, from tensile testing and beam bending to vibration and modal analysis. Students gain practical experience with industry-grade test rigs, instrumentation and data acquisition systems while working directly with academic staff and research teams.
Mechanical Design Studio
A hands-on, team-based studio where final-year (and advanced) UTS engineering students tackle real-world design challenges, from concept to prototype. Students use mechanical, manufacturing and control theory plus modern design practices to deliver functional devices or systems, often for industrial or research clients.