The Department of Physics provides both undergraduate and graduate students with many opportunities for research.
The department’s research is focused in several sub-fields of physics. These include:
| Geophysics | Computational Physics | Physics Education |
| Nonlinear Optics | Space Physics | Environmental Physics |
| Industrial Physics | Condense Matter Physics | Material Physics |
| Nanotechnology | Photonics | Embedded Systems |
| Instrumentation | Machine Vision | Image/Signal Processing |