Upcoming Training Schedule
EQUIPMENT NAME | DATE & TIME | LOCATION |
Allied Auto Polishing equipment | 6/15/2022 @2 pm | Room 182 Love building |
TGA | 8/2/22 @ 2pm | Room 348 Bunger-Henry |
The following equipment is available for use by the undergraduate laboratories: MSE 2021 (Materials Characterization), MSE 3021 (Materials Laboratory I) and MSE 4022 (Materials Laboratory II).
Love Building 182, Sample Preparation and Polishing Facility
- Grinding and polishing wheels
- Diamond cutter
- Band saw
- Sectioning wheel
- Inverted and StereMicroscope
Love Building 157, Characterization Lab
- Optical metallography microscopes (interfaced with computers, image analysis software)
- Leica Model DV Advanced Metallography Microscope
- Electrochemical workstations (x2 with data acquisition computers)
- Zahner Zennium
- Spectrum EIS analyzer
- Lucas Signatone electrical property measurement stand/platform (x2)
- Hardness tester, LecLM 248T
- Ceramic hotplates (x2)
- IR temperature guns (x3)
Love Building 176, The MILL - MSE’s Student-run Make-and-Measure Space
Complete instrument list and sop's here.
- ThermNiton FXL X-ray Fluorescence
- Equinox 100 X-ray Diffractometer
- Filmetrics Profilm3D Optical Profilometer
- Instron 5967 Mechanical Tester
- Avantes UV-Vis Fiber Optic Spectrometer
- Leica DVM 6 Optical Microscope
- AmScope Stereo-Optical Microscope
- Cressington Sputter Coater
- Mark-10 ESM 303 Mechanical Tester
- VWR Archimedes Balance
- Linseis Chip DSC-10 Differenital Scanning Calorimeter
- X-ray diffractometers: ThermScientific XRD bench
- LecLM 248T hardness tester
- Leica Model DV Advanced Metallography Microscope
- SEM desk type Phenom XL with Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy
- Hyrel 3D Printers (5x)
- Filabot Polymer Filament Extruder
- Budzar Granulator 274 E002 2020-2021 Self-Study Questionnaire APPENDIX D –
Bunger Henry Building 153, Mechanical Lab
- Tensile testing machine (Instron 100kN load cell)
- Charpy impact tester
- Strain gauges (extensometers) (x4)
- 3-point bend testers (x2)
- Data acquisition computer (x4)
- Low temperature box furnace (~600oC)
Bunger Henry Building 357, 341, D-101 Processing Labs
- UV-VIS spectrophotometers
- single beam (x10)
- multipurpose spectrophotometer with data acquisition computer
- Multiple imaging equipment for microscopy lab (x5)
- Brookfield Viscometers (x3)
- Archimedes set up balance (x5)
- Slip casting molds (x10)
- Box furnace
- ThermoFisher Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer (FTIR)
- Vacuum thermoformers (table-tops) (x6)
- Thermal expansion kits (x4)
- De-ionized water maker
- Metal casting furnace and rolling mill 273 E002 2020-2021 Self-Study Questionnaire
- Capillary rheometer
- Twin-screw extruder
- Single-screw extruder
- Injection molder
Bunger Henry Building 348, Polymers Lab/Thermal Analysis Lab
- Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) TA Instruments
- ThermoGravimetric Analysis (TGA) (x2) TA Instruments
- Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer (DMA) TA Instruments
- Rheology Tester TA Instruments
- Differential Thermal Analysis (DTA) TA Instruments
Paper Tricentennial Building 135
- Panalytical Empyrean XRD
- Alpha-1 XRD
- Panalytical MRD
- (Leo1530), Hitachi SU8010 FE-SEM