ME Research Equipment and Facilties
The Mechanical Engineering Department is one of the largest programs on campus and has well-equipped laboratories. Several faculty members within the department are associated with Computational Mechanics Laboratory (CML), where high-end workstations are available for pursuing research and design in modeling.
Several faculty members are associated with the Center of Excellence for Advanced Manufacturing and Production (CAMP), where research in advanced manufacturing, advanced composites, and advanced design methodologies is conducted.
The department has a strong relationship with the Advanced Material Processing (AMP) center, the Additive Manufacturing Laboratory (AML), and the Composite and Polymer Engineering (CAPE) Laboratory.
Other labs include the Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer Lab, Adaptive Dynamics Lab, Neural Networks and Controls Lab, Experimental Stress Analysis Lab, and Micromechanics Lab. The campus fosters interdisciplinary research, and state-of-the-art equipment available in the department or on campus, such as
- an electron microscope, atomic force microscope
- x-ray diffractometer
- Raman spectrometer
- laser Vibration Pattern Imager
- FADAL VMC40 Vertical Machining Center
- Bridgeport Romi CNC lathe
- Coordinate Measuring Machine
- Injection Molding Machine
- IBM 7540 Industrial Robot
Graduate research facilities and laboratories also include the following:
- advanced workstation computer facilities
- equipment for modern digital controls
- machine vision and image analysis
- structural dynamics
- computational solid mechanics
- computational fluid mechanics and heat transfer codes
- Mach 3 wind tunnel
Please visit the following department website if you want to know more about the equipment and facilities in detail:
http://mech.sdsmt.edu/MEweb/laboratories.htm