Facilities

• Materials Science Lab
  
  
  The Materials Science lab of the Mechanical Engineering Department is located in room 135 at the Lucas Building. The lab facility includes a Transmission Electron Microsocpe (TEM), a Universal Testing Machine, a Rockwell hardness tester, a microhardness tester, and specimen preparation facility.
  
• Measurements Laboratory
  
  
  
  The Measurements Lab of the Mechanical Engineering Department is located in room 132 at Lucas Building. It is the laboratory for the junior class MEEN 3210 Measurements Lab class.The lab consists of the following experimental setups:

  
  IC engine experiment
  Wind tunnel experiment
  Refrigeration trainer
  Geothermal heat pump
  Counterflow heat exchanger and condenser experiment
  Pressure losses in pipes experiment
  Flow measurements experiment
  Humidity experiment
  Laminar and turbulent flow visualization experiment
  Fatigue testing experiment
  Strain gage measurement experiment
  Pressure, temperature and flow loop

   

   
• Computer Laboratory
  
  

  The Computer Lab for the Mechanical Engineering Department is located in room 1601 in the Cherry Engineering Building. The lab facility includes a Dell server, 31 Dell PCs, scanner, and two HP LaserJet Network Printers.  Mechanical Engineering (ME) students are given door code access and the lab is available 24 hours, seven days a week.  All of the computers are connected to the Lamar Academic Domain and students use their individual Lamar Electronic Account (LEA) login.  The ME computer lab gives students access to the various engineering software such as MathCAD, Matlab, ProE, Fluent, Pipe Flow, CES, & ANSYS.  Each workstation also includes Microsoft Office and internet access.  The lab is also equipped with an overhead projector for presentations and software instruction.