Advanced Instrumentation Development Center (AIDC)

About the AIDC

The AIDC’s mission as a specialized hub of technical facilities is to facilitate cross-cutting ideation and innovation; and serve as a resource for engineering expertise, a physical space (or destination) for education and training programs, and a center for community-building efforts, connecting researchers and staff across campus. We work to enable novel and cross-cutting ideation and fabrication activities across a variety of initiatives, including those in quantum science,
planetary solutions, and beyond. Our mission stands at the nexus between hardware, computing, and data science.

The AIDC's daughter cores include:

• Advanced Prototyping Center
• Gibbs Machine Shop
• Research Support Shop
• Teaching Shop
• Electronics Development and Data Acquisition Core

We offer:

• Prototyping capabilities
• R&D and assembly spaces for instrumentation projects
• Interaction, seminar, and workshop spaces
• Outreach space and programs
• Program/project management
• In-house programming

Available to Yale researchers & external researchers

• Physical science resources
• Shops