Upcoming Training Schedule

EQUIPMENT NAMEDATE & TIMELOCATION
Inverted Microscope               January 23, 2025 at 9am        157 Love build.
DSC Analysis instrument        January 23, 2025 at 12pm      348 Bunger Henry build.
   

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