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Mechanical Engineering : Facilities Basic Measurements Laboratory Bogard Hall 118 This laboratory contains six student stations for the acquistion and analysis of experimental data. Each student station consists of a Gateway 2000 486/33C personal computer interfaced with a Keithley 500 data acquisition and control system, and Hewlett Packard Deskjet 600 (Color Cartridges avaiable). Software for data acquistion programming, data reduction, curve fitting, graph plotting and statistical analysis is provided for each student station. A variety of transducers for sensing physical parameters is provided. A monitor projector allows the monitor display from one of the student stations to be projected on a large screen at the front of the room. This laboratory is also used as a general-purpose computing laboratory. In addition to the software directly related to measurement and data analysis, the computers are equipped with word processor, spreadsheet, graphics, programming language and engineering computation software. Dynamic System Lab Under the direction of Drs. Dale O. Anderson and Melvin R. Corley, this teaching and research lab is devoted to dynamic systems, vibrations, and automatic controls. The lab is equipped with two Ono-Sokki dual-channel Fourier analyzers, accelerometers and impulse hammers with signal conditioning, an MB-Dynamics 50 pound electrodynamic shaker and power amplifier, Hewlett-Packard waveform generators and frequency meters, two hydraulic servo workbenches, three electric servo control workbenches, and numerous custom built spring-mass-damper and pendulum demonstration systems. This lab supports courses in dynamic systems, vibrations, and automatic controls. It also supports research in vibration isolation, machine condition monitoring, structural modal analysis, and automatic control systems. Microcomputer Laboratory Bogard Hall 322 Prior to Fall 1994, this lab had been maintained jointly by the ME/IE department and the college exclusively for Engineering 151 (Engineering Graphics). As of the fall quarter of the 1994-95 term, the college no longer requires Engineering 151 as a part of the common freshman year. The ME/IE department has equipped the lab with eleven 486-66 Gateway 2000 personal computers. Software installed on the computers includes MS-Windows for workgroups, WPWin in 6.0 or Word 6, CADKEY 7, AutoCad R12, TK Solver, MathCad 5 and MS Excel. The lab is currently connected to the campus network (INTERNET) and can accommodate 25 student stattions. Access is by numeric keypad. Thermofluids Lab The Thermofluids Laboratory has the capability of supporting graduate research, sponsored programs, and senior thermal design projects in the areas of conduction, heat transfer, forced and natural convection, and heat exchangers. A special tube bank apparatus is available for research involving flow visualization and combined forced/natural convection in tube banks. Automated data acquisition systems are available, along with programmable controllers, for heat transfer research and instruction at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The laboratory has the equipment for generation of liquid nitrogen for cryogenic heat transfer research, in addition to the instrumentation and equipment needed for heat transfer in the above- ambient temperature range. 
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