Department of Mechanical Engineering has a technical support team eager to help with Iowa State projects involving woodworking to integrated circuits.
Below is a list of our facilities as well as our technical support staff members and their respective skill areas in which they can provide assistance.
Boyd Lab
1260/1360 Hoover
A combination Teaching Lab and Fee for Service Shop facility that has wood working and metal working equipment. Boyd Lab supports the design and fabrication of ISU class projects, weekend Resource Hub activity and research projects. See website for details on hours, job requests, equipment, and training requirements: www.me.iastate.edu/undergraduate-programs/boyd-lab/
Boyd Lab Provides:
- Access to hand tools and power tools
- Job Requests for Mill work, Lathe work, CNC milling, Welding, Wood Working etc.
- Advice on design work, design for manufacturing, CAD questions, CAM questions, manufacturing questions, etc.
- Advice on purchasing/sourcing questions
- Advice on where to manufacture parts
Contacts:
| Expertise
Wood working, Design for Manufacture, Machining, Purchasing, 3D-Printing |
1260C Hoover
515-294-1715
craigsev@iastate.edu
Additive Manufacturing Lab
1077 Black Engineering
A combination Teaching Lab and Fee for Service 3D-printing facility. For details on job requests, equipment, and materials: www.me.iastate.edu/additive-manufacturing-lab/
Lab Provides:
- 3D – Printing
- Printed Circuit Board (PCB) manufacturing
- Advice on design work, design for manufacturing, CAD questions, CAM questions, manufacturing questions, etc.
- Advice on purchasing/sourcing questions
Engineering Measurements and Instrumentation Lab
69 Black Engineering
Lab Provides:
- Electronic Test Equipment (Oscilloscope, power supply, multimeter, function generator)
- Engineering Measurements assistance (theory and implementation)
- Data Acquisition equipment and advice
Mechanical Systems and Controls Lab located in The Mine
83 Black Engineering
Lab Provides:
- Electronic Equipment (Oscilloscope, power supply, multimeter, function generator)
- Control design assistance (theory and implementation)
Senior Design Lab located in The Mine
95E Black Engineering
Lab Provides:
- Group work stations with remote meeting capability
- Electronics Test Equipment (Oscilloscope, Digital Multimeter, DC power supply, Signal generator)
- Soldering equipment
- Hand tools (sockets, wrenches, hammers, drills, etc)
- Mini Maker Space
Contact:
| Expertise
Machining, Design for Manufacture, PCB Design and Soldering, Circuit Prototyping, 3D Printing Software: SolidWorks, MasterCAM, Matlab, C++, C#, Python, LabVIEW, KiCAD, ANSYS |
1071 Black Engineering
515-294-4306
tjames@iastate.edu
Manufacturing Labs located on first floor of Black Engineering Bldg
1070/1072/1076/1092/1098 Black
Lab Provides:
- Manual Lathe, manual Mill, CNC, Coordinate Measurement Machine (CMM)
- Aluminum Casting and Casting Simulations
- TIG, MIG and Stick welding
- Ultra sonic welding
- Submerged arc welding (SAW), Robotic welding, Welding simulator
- Plastic Injection Molder
- Tensile Tester, Charpy Tester, Bulge Tester, Surface Roughness Tester
Contacts:
| Expertise
Solidworks, Design for Manufacture, Machining, Mastercam, MagmaSoft, Casting, Material Testing, Coordinate Measurement Machine (CMM) |
1086 Black Engineering
515-294-3362
wyman@iastate.edu
Emerson Fluids Lab located in The Mine
76 Black Engineering
Lab Provides:
- Emerson Bench Fluid flow simulations
- Armfield Subsonic Air flow simulations
- Static and Dynamic Viscous Fluid simulations
- Design of Experiment simulations
- Buoyancy simulations
- Ansys Fluent modeling simulations
Heat Transfer Lab located in The Mine
87 Black Engineering
Lab Provides:
- Heat transfer simulations through Convection, Conduction, and Radiation principals
- Armfield wind tunnels Forced Convection simulations
- FLIR cameras Passive Data collection
- Thermocouple, Strain Gauge kits
- National Instruments Data Acquisition
Contact:
Expertise
Club Affiliations
|
1071 Black Engineering
515-294-5534
jlhowell@iastate.edu
Special Projects
| Advising
Graduate Research Labs, Undergraduate Design and Teaching Labs, ME490 Special Reports Expertise Electrical Engineering, Electrical Safety, Electrical Code, Instrumentation, Data Acquisition, Data Analysis, Controls, LabVIEW Programming, Equipment Design with emphasis on Longevity and Ease of Maintenance |
206 Laboratory of Mechanics
515-294-6590 ( Office )
515-291-5987 ( Work Cell )
dautremo@iastate.edu
Other Lab Facilities can be found through the Resource Hub webpage
Resource Hub Facilities
Website: http://www.resourcehub.iastate.edu/