Students learn the principles of creating two-dimensional drawings using Computer Aided Drafting software. Lab is equipped with 20 computer workstations networked to printers and plotters and an instructor workstation connected to a LCD projection system. Software used includes AutoCAD 2008, Microstation V8, and Electronics Workbench.

Students learn basic gas and arc welding. Lab is equipped with a small foundry for making aluminum or brass castings. Equipment includes: Eight stations of oxy/acetylene, four arc welding stations, six MIG and three TIG stations and three Plasma Cutters. Sand casting equipment includes furnace and crucibles suitable for pouring aluminum or brass.

      In the CNC Machining Lab students are introduced to basic G/M code. They move from relatively unsophisticated machines to high speed machining centers with modern controls and make use of CAD/CAM packages including: TekSoft Pro CAD (10 seats), Mastercam X2 (20 seats), Virtual Gibbs (2 seats), and Feature Mill (1 seat). A machining center, a die sinking EDM, and a wire-EDM enables students to learn mold making principles. Equipment includes: Cincinnati Milacron VMC and Turning center with A2100 control. Heidenhain controlled Bridgeport Interact mill, Centroid controlled mill, two EZ Trac controlled Bridgeports, two Harrison Alpha lathes with manual, teach and G/M code modes of operation. Charmilles Fobofil 240, Wire EDM, AGIE Mondo Die sinking EDM, Emco bench top CNC mill and lathe and an H&EM Automated Band Saw.

      In this lab, students learn basic testing methods as they relate to concrete, soil, and asphalt materials. Lab is equipped with a variety of equipment used to make and test concrete properties. The lab also contains equipment used in testing soil and asphalt properties.

      This lab is used to instruct students the use of Construction Design and Scheduling software and GIS/GPS Mapping software. Lab is equipped 20 computer workstations and drawing tables networked to a Robotel video distribution system and printers and plotters. Software used in this lab includes Primavera SureTrak Project Manager, AutoCAD 2008, Microstation V8, GEOPAK, and the ArcInfo GIS/GPS Suite.

      This lab is used to locate a continuously operated CORS GPS Base Station. Global positioning data collected will be used as an instructional resource in survey related classes and posted on the Internet. The GPS data collected in this lab will also be available to municipalities, planners, surveyors, developers, and public at-large for GPS/GIS related applications.

      Students build hydraulic and pneumatic systems using valves, pressure/flow controllers, cylinders, pumps, motors and gages. They can then adjust various parameters and measure the results. Equipment includes four Amatrol hydraulic/pneumatic lab benches, two Vega hydraulic/pneumatic test benches, turbo fan with manometers, viscosity tester and gage calibrator.

      In the Manufacturing Lab students get hands-on experience using manual machine tools and precision measurement. The Manufacturing Lab is equipped with six vertical knee mills, seven engine lathes, two surface grinders and various ancillary equipment such as drill presses, bench grinders, etc. The tool room is stocked with precision measuring equipment including micrometers, inside micrometers, calipers, height gages, dial indicators, gage blocks, sine bars, scales, protractors, surface plates and other standard measuring and layout equipment. In addition to learning basic operations of machines, students use this shop to work on various projects. Emphasis is placed on safety and quality of workmanship.

      This lab is used to design, develop, process, and manufacture PC-boards for prototype equipment such as variable power supply, audio amplifiers, signal decoders and other similar projects. In this lab, students design and build their own chassis and fabricate cabinets for these projects. The lab consists of circuit board design CAD package, photographic processing equipment, Kepro chemical etching and mechanical engraving (milling) equipment, and Pace surface mount soldering equipment to assemble and disassemble PC boards.

      Students learn NDT procedures for locating and characterizing subsurface and surface flaws, delamination, inclusions, etc. Lab equipment includes: Staveley Sonic 1000S Ultrasound, Eddy Current, Dye penetrant and magnetic particle.

      Students gain hands on experience testing plastics, adhesives, ferrous and non-ferrous metals with various heat treatments. Students prepare metallurgical samples and examine grain structure. Lab equipment includes: Baldwin, Tinius Olsen and Instron Universal tensile and compression testers, Brinell and Rockwell hardness testers. Impact testers and Buehler metallurgical sample preparation stations, torsion tester and heat treating furnace. Plastics testing equipment includes stiffness tester, melt flow index, impact tester, heat distortion tester and a moisture analyzer.

      In the Plastics Processing Laboratory students acquire the basic skills necessary for the primary manufacturing processes of plastics products. Special emphasis is placed on injection molding and blow molding. The lab is equipped with a 45-ton injection-molding machine and a Vacuum Forming Machine. A blow molding machine and rotational molding machine is currently being purchase.

      This lab is furnished with ten (10) SLC 505 Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) and 20 micro-logic controllers. These controllers are used in the industry for controlling multiple operations and sampling of products in an assembly line and/or in a chemical process. The lab will also include two SCARA (Selectively Compliant Articulating Robot Arms) robots. These, Adept Cobra SCARAs with vision systems, are used for assembly, packaging, or quality inspection on a product line. The PLCs in this lab are also used to teach control and manipulation of robotic arms.

      Students learn the principles of metrology, data collection and precision measurement. Lab equipment includes: Helmel Computer controlled CMM with Geomet software, Mitutoyo Coordinate Measuring Machine with Motorized Head, Starrett Optical Comparator, Starrett hand held data collection units with electronic gaging, sine bars, gage blocks, surface plates and miscellaneous precision measuring equipment.

      Students learn the procedures to design solid model drawings to be used for manufacturing parts with rapid prototype equipment. Lab is equipped with 20 high performance computer workstations networked to a Robotel video distribution system including printers and plotters. In addition the lab contains:

FDM - (Fused Deposition Modeling) We are currently running a Stratasys FDM 2000, capable of a 10"x10"x10" build envelope at .007" layers.

MJM - (Multi-Jet Modeling) We are currently running a 3D Systems Thermojet Printer, capable of a 10"x8"x8" build envelope at 300x400x600 DPI accuracy and .0015" layers.

3DP - (3 Dimensional Printing) We are currently running a Z Corp Z510 Color 3D printer, capable of a 10"x14"x10" build envelope at .0035" layers and 24-bit color.

3D Scanner - We currently have available our Minolta VIVID 700 non-contact 3D digitizer with computer controlled turntable(45/60 degree increments).

All of our RP machines are run by our state-of-the-art Dell Precision 650 workstation; Dual 2.8GHz Xeon CPUs, 4GB DDR RAM, 5x 36GB SCSI HD RAID5, Quadro4 900XGL 128MB video card, and 19" monitor. Software includes Windows 2000 Pro SP4 on NTFS, Insight, Vivid, Rapidform, Raindrop GeoMagic Studio & Qualify.

      The Telecommunications Lab will be equipped with T-1 Span Simulator; T-Bird Tester; 1 Optical Time Domain Reflectrometer (OTDR); 2-Stations T-1 telephone system comprising to internal switches; Fiber-Optics installation related tools and equipment, 1 (Wireless) RF - Spectrum Analyzer, 8 stations of hands-on Telecommunications Trainers for Com Techs , System Techs and Installers, 5 stations of Telecommunications Instructional Modeling Systems (TIMS) for lab demonstrations, and making complex demodulations / decoding experiments; 5 stations of NIDA Computer-Assisted Instruction Telecommunications program; and one Telecom Wiring Closet. In addition this lab will also include 5 stations of wireless telecommunications networking system. One fixed and one portable (receive only) earth satellite station.

E155B - CNC Programming Lab

      15 – Dell Precision 360 Workstations with 2.8 GHz Pentium IV CPU, 1024MB RAM, 80GB ATA100 hard drive, ZIP 250 drive, 128MB nVidia Quadro FX500 AGP video card, and 19” LCD flat panels, with Windows XP Pro SP2 on NTFS, Office 2003, AutoCAD 2008, Catia V5R16, Insight 4.1, Interactive C 4, Inventor 2008, MasterCAM X2, Meta Cut Utilities 2.1, Microstation v8, Plastics Training, ProEngineer 2001/Wildfire, Prolite, RoboCell, SimuTech 5, SolidWorks 2006, TK Solver 4, UniGraphics NX3, and Visual Studio 6.0.

      Printers available: All computers have network available “A” size laser printer.

E285 - PLC Lab

      13 – Dell Precision 360 Workstations with 2.8 GHz Pentium IV CPU, 1024MB RAM, 80GB ATA100 hard drive, 128MB nVidia Quadro FX1000 AGP video card, and 17” LCD flat panels, with Windows XP Pro SP2 on NTFS, Office 2003, AutoCAD 2008, Catia V5R16, Insight 4.1, Interactive C 4, Inventor 2008, MasterCAM X2, Microstation v8, ProEngineer 2001/Wildfire, RSLogics 500, SolidWorks 2006, UniGraphics NX3, and Visual Studio 6.0.

      Printers available: All computers have network available “A” size laser printer.

E276/277 - ETC Homework Lab

      8 – Dell Precision 390 Workstations with dual 3GHz Pentium IV CPUs, 2GB RAM, 80GB SATA100 hard drive, 512MB QuadroFX 4500 PCI-X graphics card, and 19” LCD flat panels, with Windows XP Pro SP2 on NTFS, MS Office 2003, AutoCAD 2008, BASIC Stamp 2.2.6, Catia V5R16, ETCAI, Inventor 2008, MasterCAM X2, Microstation v8, MoldFlow Advisor7.3/Insight6.0, MultiSim 9, ProE Wildfire 3.0, Pspice 9.1, SolidWorks 2006 SP4.1, Stratasys Insight 4.2, UniGraphics NX3.

      Printers available: All computers have network available “A,B” size laser printer, “A,B” size color printer, and “A-D” size color inkjet plotter.

E277 - Solids Modeling

      21 – Dell Precision 380 Workstations with dual 3GHz Pentium IV CPUs, 2GB RAM, 80GB SATA100 hard drive, 512MB QuadroFX 4500 PCI-X graphics card, and 19” LCD flat panels, *(Lab includes Robotel video distribution system), with Windows XP Pro SP2 on NTFS, MS Office 2003, ArcGIS Desktop IrcInfo 9.2, AutoCAD 2008, BASIC Stamp 2.2.6, Catia V5R16, ETCAI, Geomatics Office 1.5, Inventor 2008, MasterCAM X2, Microstation v8, MoldFlow Advisor7.3/Insight6.0, MultiSim 9, ProE Wildfire 3.0, Pspice 9.1, SolidWorks 2006 SP4.1, Stratasys Insight 4.2, SureTrak 2.0, UniGraphics NX3.

      Printers available: All computers have network available “A,B” size laser printer, “A,B” size color printer, and “A-D” size color inkjet plotter.

E278 – Advanced CAD Lab

      21 – Dell Precision 390 Workstations with dual 3GHz Pentium IV CPUs, 2GB RAM, 80GB SATA100 hard drive, 512MB QuadroFX 4500 PCI-X graphics card, and 19” LCD flat panels, *(Lab includes Robotel video distribution system, LCD Projector, and 2 - 27” ceiling mounted monitors), with Windows XP Pro SP2 on NTFS, MS Office 2003, AutoCAD 2008, BASIC Stamp 2.2.6, Catia V5R16, ETCAI, Inventor 2008, MasterCAM X2, Microstation v8, MoldFlow Advisor7.3/Insight6.0, MultiSim 9, ProE Wildfire 3.0, Pspice 9.1, SolidWorks 2006 SP4.1, Stratasys Insight 4.2, UniGraphics NX3.

      Printers available: All computers have network available “A” size laser printer.

E283 – Construction Design and Mapping Lab

      21 – Dell Precision 370 Workstations with 3.4GHz Pentium IV CPU, 512MB RAM, 80GB SATA hard drive, 128MB nVidia Quadro FX1300 AGP video card, and 19” LCD flat panels, *(Lab includes Robotel video distribution system and LCD projector), with Windows XP Pro SP2 on NTFS, MS Office 2003, AutoCAD 2008, BASIC Stamp 2.2.6, Catia V5R16, ETCAI, Inventor 2008, MasterCAM X2, Microstation v8, MoldFlow Advisor7.3/Insight6.0, MultiSim 9, ProE Wildfire 3.0, Pspice 9.1, SolidWorks 2006 SP4.1, Stratasys Insight 4.2, UniGraphics NX3.

      Printers available: All computers have network available “A,B” size laser printer and “A-D” size color inkjet plotter.

E284 – Rapid Prototyping Lab

      19 – Dell Precision 370 Workstations with 3.4GHz Pentium IV CPU, 512MB RAM, 80GB SATA hard drive, 128MB nVidia Quadro FX1300 AGP video card, 19” LCD flat panels, *(Lab includes LCD projector), with Windows XP Pro SP2 on NTFS, MS Office 2003, AutoCAD 2008, BASIC Stamp 2.2.6, Catia V5R16, ETCAI, Inventor 2008, MasterCAM X2, Microstation v8, MoldFlow Advisor7.3/Insight6.0, MultiSim 9, ProE Wildfire 3.0, Pspice 9.1, SolidWorks 2006 SP4.1, Stratasys Insight 4.2, UniGraphics NX3.

      Printers Available: All computers have network available “A” size laser printer.

E286 – PC Repair and Programming Lab

      13 – Dell Optiplex PC with 2.8GHz Pentium IV CPU, 1024MB RAM, 80GB ATA100 hard drive, 128MB ATI Radeon X300 AGP video card, and 17” LCD flat panels, with Windows 2000/XP Pro on NTFS, BASIC Stamp 2.2.6, Visual Studio .Net 2003.

      Printers available: All computers have network available “A” size laser printer.