Engineering Materials Laboratory

The Engineering Materials (EM) Laboratory provides students with opportunities to learn important concepts in materials science through experimentation.  Students learn how to measure and modify material properties, perform activities to clarify important concepts, and select materials for product designs.  Typically the topics covered are directly relevant to manufacturing processes or product design.  The lab is utilized principally by students in Engineering Materials (MME 223).  However, the lab is available to students in other courses as well.  The laboratory equipment enables measurement of elastic and plastic, viscoelastic, viscous, thermal and fatigue properties.  Thermal processes for improving material properties can also be carried out.  Additional equipment enables the visualization of important materials science concepts.  Student learning from lab equipment enables the visualization of important materials science concepts.  Student learning from lab experiences is integrated with subsequent learning of other engineering topics such as manufacturing processes.  The lab equipment is also used in myriad research activities being undertaken by MME faculty and students.

Equipment
 

Networked Computers
Bending die set
Compaq laptop DAS station - network
Etcher
Extensometers
Fornaces
Grinder, Hand
Hardness tester, Rockwell
Height gages
Infrared pyrometer
Load cells
Melting pot
Meltal sample press
Microscope, Nikon
Density gradient columns
Punch & die set
Resin sample kit
Rheometer-Capillary type
Rolling mill
Testing machine, Baldwin
Tensile testers
Top loading balance
Torsion tester, TecQuipment
Video camera, Nikon
Weighing scales
Fatigue testing machine
Polishing equipment: belt surfacer & polisher
Thermal conductivity apparatus
Materials testing frames: Instron and MTS (axial and torsion)