Engineering Laboratories
University of Northwestern – St. Paul Engineering Laboratories
Electronics Laboratory
Oscilloscopes, power supplies, DMMs, and function generators for eight workstations to support circuits and electronics courses. Communications trainers and computers for support of microcontrollers, biomedical instrumentation, and digital electronics.
Engine Laboratory
Instrumentation and equipment for thermodynamic cycle demonstrations, small engine tear-down and rebuilding, turbojet thrust analysis, and diesel engine power measurements using a dynamometer.
Soils and Concrete Laboratory
Instruments for determination of moisture content, specific gravity, and Atterberg limits of soils. Equipment for sieve analysis, hydrometer analysis, soil classification, proctor compaction, permeability, direct shear, consolidation and triaxial testing of soils. Concrete mixture design, setting time of concrete, slump test of concrete, air content of concrete, and compression strength of concrete.
Introduction to Engineering Laboratory
Workbenches, hand tools, 3D printers, and a PCB milling machine to support team-based projects of the first program course.
Machine Shop
Metal and woodworking tools for cutting, turning, joining, and forming various parts. Metal equipment includes vertical mills, lathes, grinders, spot welder, TIG welders, and a CNC machine. Woodworking equipment includes drill presses, multiple types of saws, and a variety of carpentry tooling.
Materials Laboratory
Universal testing machines for axial and bend testing of metallic, ceramic, polymeric and composite materials. Additional equipment for assessment of stress and strain under torsion, creep, impact and fatigue loads. Industry standard hardness testing and sample polishing equipment to examine grain structure.
Physics Laboratory
Systems for examining force and energy on motion of particles and rigid bodies. Also, equipment for the study of electromagnetism, optics, and applications of oscillatory systems.
Thermo-Fluids Laboratory
Trainers for practical investigation of fluid flow, heat exchange, refrigeration cycles, piping losses, series & parallel pumping, and free & forced convection.
Senior Design Laboratory
Assigned bench space for research and engineering design for senior capstone projects.
Simulation Laboratory
46 workstations installed with ANSYS, AutoCAD, MATLAB, SolidWorks, and other applications for numerical analysis, computer-aided design, and modeling of components, fluids, and control systems.
Surveying Laboratory
Measurements of horizontal, vertical, and slope distances as well as horizontal and vertical angles using levels and total stations. Other measurements include traverse, topographic, and construction stakeout surveying.
