SOUTH ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER (SERC)
Building ID: 1235 | Abbreviation: SERC
255 7th Avenue
Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35401
Opened in January 2012, the South Engineering Research Center is the first building dedicated solely to the College of Engineering since H.M. Comer Hall was completed in 1960. The SERC, as it is abbreviated, sits across the new Science and Engineering Quad from Shelby Hall and the Science and Engineering Complex, as part of UA's suite of research hubs designed to encourage collaboration across scientific disciplines. The three-story building has 175,000 square feet. There are seven large multimedia classrooms that include two with 40 seats, three with 50 seats and two lecture halls seating 90 people. There are more than 40 research and instructional labs including nine flexible-use instructional labs that can seat 36 students each. There is office space for 38 faculty and staff members and about 145 graduate students along with numerous meeting and conference rooms. Five of the College's departments have office space in SERC, and faculty from the entire College use the classroom and instructional labs. The SERC includes researchers in the following areas: Structures, Automotive Combustion and Energy, Electromechanical Systems, Dynamics, Embedded Systems.