Upcoming Training Schedule

EQUIPMENT NAMEDATE & TIMELOCATION
Rheometer instrument                    April 08, 2025 at 9am 348 Bunger Henry build.
 Metallography      April 09, 2025 at 11:30am             182 Love build.
 XRD instrument April 11, 2025 at 12pm     130 Nano Technology Build.
TG Analysis instrument     April 14, 2025 at 2:30 pm              348 Bunger Henry build.

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The following equipment is available for use by the undergraduate laboratories:

  • MSE 2021 (Materials Characterization)
  • MSE 3021 (Materials Laboratory I)
  • 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