Facilities and Labs

General Electrical Engineering Laboratory

Our general electrical engineering laboratory is designed to accommodate several basic laboratories including circuit lab, electronics I and II labs., circuits and systems lab, and advanced electronics laboratory. There are twelve stations, which are equipped with analog oscilloscope, portable digital scope, and modular TM503 Tektronix box that houses up to three different functional modules. Normally, TM503 equipped with a triple variable power supply, a function generator, and a digital multi-meter. However, there are other modules such as pulse generator, counter, and etc. that can be incorporated for specific set of experiments.

Each electrical and computer engineering sophomore will receive a tool set to keep that compliments general-purpose instruments of each station. The tool set includes handheld DMM, 4-strip breadboard, several scope and instrument cables, needle nose, wire stripper, wire cutter, different color wires, and a whole array of other parts and equipments.

The Laboratory is accessible 24 hours a day and 7 days a week through keypad lock. Inside the lab students have access to all the parts and Ic’s that they need for their experiments and projects.

Energy Conversion Laboratory

The energy conversion laboratory experience involves the assembly, testing and measurement of characteristics of different types of motors, generators, and transformers.

The energy conversion laboratory equipment consists of four workstations. Each workstation contains an instrumentation control panel, a driver motor, a controllable/measurable torque load, a tachometer, and various parts for motor and generator assembly. The following laboratory experiments are performed:

• The Series-Wound DC Motor
• The Shunt-Wound DC Motor
• The Compound-Wound DC Motor
• The Universal Motor
• The Synchronous Motor
• The Synchronous Generator (Alternator)
• Transformer Tests
• The Squirrel-Cage Induction Motor
• The Repulsion Motor
• Automatic Control Motors

Lab Instructor: Irwin Goldberg, Ph.D., P. E.
Professor of Engineering

Research Laboratory

The research lab is used by our undergraduate and graduate students for their academic related activities such as research, projects, etc. This lab consists of both UNIX and windows work stations and servers. We predominantly use the Solaris version of UNIX installed on ULTRA 60s, ULTRA 10s, ULTRA 1s and SUN BLADEs. The main software used on these computers are: MATLAB and 22 of its modules, Electronic Workbench, Altera, C/C++/JAVA/FORTRAN Compilers, graphics and CAD/CAM, etc. The lab is maintained by two students under the supervision of a faculty member.

Industrial Automation and Control Laboratory

The learning objective of the industrial automation and control lab is for students to learn about logic controls and automation devices. In This lab we have Fischertechnik hardware kits with Fipro and LogixPro software.

Robatics Laboratory

At the robotics lab, students learn robot anatomy, programming, and interfacing with other automation devices.

Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing (CAD/CAM) Laboratory

The CAD and CAM labs equipment includes computer numerical control (CNC) machineries, coordinate measuring machine (CMM), programmable logic controller (PLC), and networked SolidWorks CAD system. The main activities in this lab include:

• Hands-on project-based designs
• Inspection of manufactured components to a very high degree of precision for robust design and quality control purposes
• Integration of automated manufacturing

Bioengineering Laboratory

On-going funded undergraduate research takes place in the bioengineering laboratory. Instrumentation for the bioengineered hip stems were developed in this laboratory.

Control System & Data Acquisition Laboratory

This lab has been designed to give the undergraduate students an extra edge in their field of study and help them understand engineering topics such as feedback control, data acquisition, digital control etc. It also serves as a gateway to carry out research activities, for graduate students and faculties. The various equipment installed, helps the students get a real time experience and provide them with the vision to find solutions for practical problems.

The highlight of the lab is the various special equipment such as the DC motor trainer kit, HVAC temperature trainer kit and Magnetic levitation system, which help the students in understanding important concepts of control systems and data acquisition