Department of Engineering

Facilities

I. Classrooms

Most Engineering classes are held in Clarence M. Knudson Hall (CMK), a building entirely devoted to Engineering. There are 5 classrooms in the building. Each classroom is network-wired to the seat, 3 of the rooms have a computer projector and there is a portable computer projector available for the other rooms. Each room has a pull-down projection screen and overhead projectors are available. "Blackboard" space is ample in each room.

The classrooms are:

CMK 101 (capacity 30)
CMK 201 (capacity 15)
CMK 205 (capacity 15)
CMK 207 (capacity 20)
CMK 309 (capacity 55)

In addition, there is a classroom in the Metallurgy building, MET 14, with a capacity of 12 students.

The Department of Engineering has priority use of these classrooms. During the current classroom shortage caused by extensive building and relocation around the University Park Campus, these classrooms are sometimes used by other departments when not required by Engineering.

II. Laboratories

The Engineering Department has 14 laboratories used for undergraduate instruction. The labs provide adequate space for the number of students enrolled in courses that require lab facilities. Multiple sections of some lab courses are required to accommodate the students.

These labs are:

CMK 100 Robotics Lab

This lab contains the equipment for the Robotics course (ENGR 3730). This facility supports the Robotics specialization.

Major equipment includes:

IBM Robotic Manipulator/Controllers
Hytrol Conveyor
IBM Control Computer and software

None of the equipment is new, but it is adequate for instructional purposes.

CMK 105/107 Physical Electronics Lab

This facility supports Physical Electronics, (ENEE 3011) and the Semiconductor specialization. Room 105 is a clean room providing students the opportunity to fabricate semiconductor materials.

Major equipment includes:

Alessi four-point probe
Kulicke and Soffa mask aligner
Exposure system
Plasmod asher
Gaertner ellipsometer

CMK 107B Materials Science Lab

This part of room 107 contains a wet hood, HP 34970A data acquisition unit and computer used for an experiment on phase diagrams in ENME 2421, Materials Science II.

CMK 111 Circuits/Electronics Lab

This lab is used mainly for instruction in the Common Curriculum, and the electronics courses in the Electrical engineering curricula (ENGR 1621, ENGR 1631; ENEE 2015, ENEE 2025, ENGR 2035, ENEE 2211). Integration and senior design students also have access to the lab.

There are 10 test stations (intended for 2-student use), each equipped with:

HP 33120A Function generator/arbitrary waveform generator
HP E3631A Triple output DC programmable power supply
HP 34970A Data Acquisition/Switch Unit (DASU)
HP 54600B Dual trace, 100 MHz oscilloscope
HP 34401A Digital multimeter
USB/GPIB interfaces
LabVIEW software for student's laptop computers
Multisim software via network connections at each lab station

All equipment has GPIB interfaces and meets current industrial standards for precision and accuracy.

In addition to the test stations there are three T-Tech circuit board prototyping machines, a Tektronix semiconductor curve tracer, and an RCL meter.

CMK 203 Optics Lab

This lab supports ENEE 3030, Optical Electronics, ENEE 3035, Photonics, and ENEE 3620, Optical Fiber Communications courses taken in the Semiconductor specialization, or as technical electives by other engineering students.

Major equipment includes:
Newport RS48-12 Table top
Newport XL4a-28 Isolation system
Newport 845 Digital shutter system
NEWPORT 505 Laser diode driver
NEWPORT 1830C optical power meter
Newport 5030 laser driver
Newport 3240 temperature controller
THORLABS LDC500 laser diode controller
Fiber optic video inspection system X400-ST
HP54600B & HP54601A oscilloscope
Power supplies, computers and printers

CMK 207/209 Project Lab

This lab supports ENGR 1611, Engineering Concepts I, in the Autumn Quarter and is used as a project lab for ENGR 2610, 2620, Integration I, II, and ENGR 3320, 3330, Senior Design Project II, III in the Winter and Spring Quarters.

Equipment available for Concepts I includes:

17 Time-a-matic water timers
6 2-stroke IC engines
11 Brigg and Stratton 4-stroke IC engines

These are used for reverse engineering dissection.

There are lockable cabinets available for storage of project work in ENGR 2610, 2620 (Engineering Integration I, II), and ENGR 3310, 3320, 3330 (Senior Design Project I, II, III). Supplies and equipment must be checked out from the appropriate lab to be used here.

CMK 211 Communications Lab

This lab supports ENEE 3141, Digital Communications, ENEE 3150, Communications Laboratory and ENEE 3660, Communications Systems Design, taken by Electrical Engineering students in the Communications specialization.

Major equipment includes:

2 HP 8590A spectrum analyzers (10 kHz to 1.5 GHz)
2 Phillips PM3323 500/MS/s digital oscilloscopes
2 Fluke 6062A RF generators (100 kHz to 2.1 GHz)
3 Phillips PM51359 function generators (0.1 MHz to 10 MHz)
2 Fluke 8050 digital multimeters
2 Tektronix power supplies
1 HP 200 AB Audio Generator
1 HP 400E AC Voltmeter
1 Cushman CE-24A frequency selective level meter
1 Wavetek 132 VCG/noise generator
4 IBM PCs P3/700 MHz
2 SUN Ultra10 computers
1 HP Laser 1000 series printer

CMK 213 Signal Processing Lab

This lab supports technical electives in Computer Engineering (Embedded Systems, HDL Modeling and Synthesis and Computer Networks).

Major equipment includes:

4 IBM Aptiva computers
4 Dell Optiplex computers
DSP software
5 Fluke 7260 Counter Timers
3 PM 5139 Function Generators
2 PM 3335 Dual Channel Oscilloscopes
1 HP8554B Spectrum Analyzer

CMK 301 Digital Design and Microprocessors Lab

This lab supports ENCE 2101 in the Common Curriculum, and upper-level Computer Engineering courses. There are 8 test stations (intended for 2-student use), each equipped with the following:

HP E3630A Triple output DC power supply
HP 33120A Function generator/arbitrary waveform generator
HP 54600B oscilloscope
Fluke 8050 digital multimeter
Global Specialties Model 503 proto-board workstation

The lab also has two 34 Channel, 500 MHz Agilent Logic Analyzers and a PROCOM Chip Master 5000 Device Programmer.

CMK 305 Unix Computer Lab

The UNIX lab supports computational requirements for all engineering disciplines.

Included in the lab are:

Two E250 Sun Enterprise servers;
Six Sun Ultra 10 workstations;
One Sun Ultra 60 workstation.

MET 28 Center for Design, Manufacturing and Fabrication

This facility is used in Engineering Concepts, Integration and Senior Design courses (ENGR 1611, 1621, 2610, 2620, 3313, 3323, 3330), and part of the laboratory component of ENME 2421 (Materials Science II.).

Equipment includes:

4 Minitek computer controlled lathes
4 Minitek computer controlled milling machines
1 Rockwell 4JR hardness tester
1 Instron universal tester
1 Lincoln Electric Weld Pak100
1 Miller gas welder
1 Rapid prototyping machine
2 8-inch polishing wheels
1 Zeiss microscope
1 ultrasonic cleaner

In addition there is a Logan 1825 lathe, a Bridgeport milling machine, a drill press, a band saw, a radial saw, and associated necessary machine tools, such as drills, saws, etc.

MET 112 Mechanical Engineering Lab

The Mechanical Engineering Laboratory contains 16 experimental set-ups for the study of heat transfer (3), mechanical oscillations, open and closed loop control, fluid mechanics (2), strain in beams, measurement techniques, and other topics (6). No more than 8 experimental set-ups are active at any one time; most fit on a table top. There is sufficient space and adequate lighting, electrical power, compressed air, and water to support current enrollments.

Equipment includes:

3 HP 33120A Function generator/arbitrary waveform generator
3 HP E3631A Triple output DC programmable power supply
3 HP 34970A Data Acquisition/Switch Unit (DASU)
2 HP 54600B Dual trace, 100 MHz oscilloscope
HP 34401A Digital multimeters
USB/GPIB interfaces
LabVIEW software for student's laptop computers

Transducers include variable reluctance pressure sensors, an angular encoder, temperature sensors, strain gages, laminar flow elements, a Venturi meter, orifices, a flow nozzle, and a hot-film anemometer.

MET 114 Scanning Electron Microscope Lab

This is mainly a research facility, but students taking MTSC 3430 and MTSC 3440 as technical electives use the equipment in connection with these courses. Major equipment in MET 114 includes a JEOL Model 5800-LV Scanning Electron Microscope with state-of-the-art detectors and software.

MET 119 X-Ray Diffraction Labs

This is mainly a research facility, but students taking MTSC 3430 and MTSC 3440 as technical electives use the equipment in connection with these courses. MET 119 contains a Siemens D-500 x-ray diffraction system with suitable capabilities and software.

MET 113 Dynamometer Lab

This facility is located at the south end of the Metallurgy building, on the lower level, and is used in the Mechanical Engineering Laboratory sequence. There are two parts:

An engine room containing a water brake dynamometer, an 8-cylinder, fuel injected, naturally aspirated, computer-controlled Ford engine and various transducers;

A control room containing dynamometer control hardware, data acquisition equipment and data display hardware.

The dynamometer permits measurement of engine output torque and power. The associated transducers are used to measure air flow, fuel flow, pressure in a cylinder, engine speed, and CO and hydrocarbon emissions. An array of computers and data acquisition systems are used to record data.

MET 113 Mechanical Engineering Testing Facility

This is mainly a research facility but students taking ENGR 1621, Engineering Concepts II, use the wind tunnel for design of an anemometer, and students in ENGR 3310, 3320, 3330, Senior Design Project I, II, III may use the testing equipment for testing of their projects.

Equipment includes: