Engineering Laboratories

Student in the Electronics Lab reaching up to adjust equipment.

Male engineering student building a model with many wires.

Two male engineering smiling while working on a model with many wires.

Students in the Electronics Lab leaning over their project and pointing to the board they are using for testing.

Engineering students working on a machine with a monitor showing waves.

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.

Two students working with their professor on a machine that creates smoke.

Male engineering student using machine that creates smoke.

Two students working on an engine machine.

Female engineering student using machine with levers

Two make engineering students putting together an engine.

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.

Plastic pieces modeling on a table with a drawing beside it.

Engineering students smiling with their phones out to take pictures of a bridge made of popsicle sticks.

Students working on a bridge made out of popsicle sticks.

Male engineering student building a bridge using popsicle sticks.

Digital drawing of a popsicle stick bridge

Student looking at his bridge spread across two tables made of popsicle sticks.

Wooden cabinets open with drawers pulled out and tools in each drawer.

Three students examining their popsicle stick bridge spread across two tables with a bucket of rockets attached to the bridge.

Students building small version bridges at wooden tables with their professor checks their work.

Female engineering student place a round bowl into a large black box-type machine.

Student building popsicle stick bridges based on their digital drawing.

A popsicle stick bridge model standing on a wooden table.

Students working on their computers to create digital models of bridges.

Maker Space: Introduction to Engineering Laboratory

Workbenches, hand tools, 3D printers, and a PCB milling machine to support team-based projects of the first program course.

Male engineering student with protective eye wear on using a milling machine.

Machine shop bench with gloves, welding mask, metal pieces, and welding tool.

Male engineering student working on a computer in the machine shop.

Machine shop tool with a rotating wheel and knobs.

Drilling machine with a gauge connected to it.

Male engineering student with his hand through an opening to point the drill onto wood in between two clamps.

A close-up view of a CNC milling machine with a cutting tool positioned above a piece of wood clamped in a metal vise on the machine bed.

Large grey Bridgeport milling-type machine

Two large milling-type machines with a tool box in a sterile white room.

Black hand drilling machine sitting on a wooden table in a machine shop.

Two engineering students welding a piece of medal with masks and jackets on for protection.

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.

Wood and other metal materials on a white shelf next to a window.

A large metal machine with a red safety box around it to protect users from materials flying at them.

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.

Professor working with student to build a model for a physics lab.

Engineering model built for a lab in the classroom.

Engineering professor teaching a physics lab in the classroom.

Two male engineering students working on a physics lab together in the classroom.

Students working on a physics lab building a model on a table.

Three male engineering students working on a physics lab in the classroom together.

Male engineering student working on a physics lab.

Male engineering student wearing a Northwestern hat and working on a physics lab.

Engineering students working on a lab together.

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.

Engineering student presenting his research with a poster board.

Arm attached to wires and it is set on a wooden table for an electronics lab.

Male student wearing UNW sweatshirt in Physiological Signals Lab with electrodes connected to his arm.

Physiological Signals Laboratory

Two engineering students working with their professor in the thermo-fluids lab.

Female engineering student working on a thermo-fluids lab.

Engineering student collaborating with a professor on a thermo-fluids experiment.

female engineering student turning a knob on device with her laptop in hand.

Male engineering student smiling while working on a thermo-fluid lab.

Three engineering students working on a thermo-fluids lab together.

Two female engineering students working together on a thermo-fluid lab.

Student putting together a thermo-fluid machine.

Engineering thermo fluids machine with pressure gauges and tubes.

Two male engineering students working on a machine with many tubes.

Student workstation in Thermo-Fluid Lab.

Thermo fluids engineering machine sitting on a wooden table.

Engineering machine used for a physics lab with tubes and coils.

Small engineering machine with a tube for thermo fluids.

Two engineering students working together on a physics lab.

Engineering students gathered around a large white machine connected to many wires.

Engineering machine with gauges and tubes used for a physics lab.

Three engineering students working on a machine for a physics lab.

Two male engineering students working on a physics lab with a large machine in the middle of their table.

Thermo-Fluids Laboratory

Trainers for practical investigation of fluid flow, heat exchange, refrigeration cycles, piping losses, series & parallel pumping, and free & forced convection.

Three engineering students working on computers in the lab.

Engineering student presenting his research.

Empty engineering lab with wooden tables and shelves.

Senior Design Laboratory

Assigned bench space for research and engineering design for senior capstone projects.

Professor helping two engineering students working on computers.

Professor laughing with two female engineering students working on computers.

Professor helping two engineering students on a worksheet.

Two engineering students working on a worksheet and smiling.

Professor teaching an engineering class in a room full of students.

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.

Two male engineering students pointing at a machine that uses concrete.

Two female engineering students working on a machine for a soil testing lab.

Two male engineering students working on a machine together.

Engineering student putting together a machine for a soil testing lab.

Two Engineering students working on a machine that is controlled buttons.

Three engineering students working together on a machine for a soils and concrete lab.

Two female engineering students working together on a machine for a soils and concrete lab.

Engineering student controlling machine with a touchpad and buttons.

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.

Female engineering student operating a lab device, focused on conducting an experiment or test in a laboratory setting.

Female engineering student using a surveying device while receiving guidance from her professor across the room in a lab setting.

Female engineering student using a surveying device in a lab setting.

Female engineering student looking through a lense of a surveying machine.

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.