Materials Processing & Testing Labs Print

All undergraduate MEES students gain hands on experience on testing solid and fluid materials as they matriculate through our curriculum. The Material Processing and Testing Labs and the Thermal Fluids Labs are two such examples.

 

 

Through the junior level Materials Lab course (MEGR 3152) our MEES Undergraduates gain practice in a variety of concepts critical to using solid materials for a range of engineering applications. For instance, students learn the concepts of hardening via thermal cycling; metal polishing and hardness testing, concepts of metallography including etching; the power of scanning electron microscopy, etc…


This JEOL JSM 6480 Scanning Electron Microscope has the ability to reach magnifications of up to 30,000.The MTS System 810 is used for evaluating materials under dynamic and static tensile and compressive loads. It is capable of applying loads of 20 kips

JEOL JSM 6480 Scanning Electron Microscope

MTS System

This Olympus BX51 upright microsope with Colorview camera is used to optically view the surface quality of a range of materials – including polished metals. The ECOMET 3 is a water polishing wheel commonly used to polish metals using water flow and friction.

ECOMET 3 Water Polishing Wheel

Olympus BX_ MIcroscope

 
 

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