Catalog Navigator : Industrial and Systems Engineering

Advanced Simulation Laboratory. This laboratory is intended to serve student term projects in the areas of simulation, design, statistical modeling, and machine learning. With access to large screens, fast computers, and different media tools, the students are able to analyze and simulate large volumes of data and build models using R, Phyton, MATLAB, ARENA, LINDO, and other commercial tools. The lab also includes 3-D modeling tools such as Solid-Works and FactoryTalk for student projects. There is also a PLC server that can be connected to remote devices and robots for real-time motion and supervisory controls, and for cyber-physical systems controls. This PLC is usually used in two or three student design projects every year.

Automation Laboratory. The laboratory is equipped with two CNC milling machines, a CNC lathe, an automated storage and retrieval system, and testing equipment and devices that support undergraduate courses (e.g., Manufacturing Processes and Design I and II). There are also two ROS stations for robot-to-robot communication and control applications. This lab is also home to a number of machines and systems that were developed in the prior student design projects (including two autonomous tennis ball collectors, a soccer ball collector). This equipment is used for departmental tours and for lecturing Design I classes. The laboratory has a prototype sheet-folding machine capable of folding creative patterns for different applications.

Automation and Mechatronics Laboratory. This laboratory provides students with hands on experience in motion and supervisory controls. With WiFi connection to the ISE remote PLC and a host of PLCs and instructional kits (with motors, sensors, I/O boards) in the lab where students are able to work on hands-on projects that involve control of devices, motors, actuators, and higher level supervisory controls. This lab is used primarily for the Automation and Systems Design course and lab. The lab also includes a small-scale physical simulation of IOT sensors and devices for student projects.

Design Laboratory. The Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) has shared space for ISE and mechanical and aerospace engineering (MAE) design projects. The shared space is intended to promote interdisciplinary design activities and will include primary tools that can be used for system assembly and testing, with remote access to other department resources. This lab is located in the Richard Weeks Hall building (second floor).

Energy Laboratory. This lab has been developed to allow students to have hands-on experience on how Industrial & Systems Engineering concepts and methods in data analytics, reliability engineering, and efficiency/productivity analysis can be used to improve the operation of energy systems. The laboratory has a wide array of energy-related equipment, ranging from renewable energy sensors (solar pyranometers, sun tracker, sky imager, etc.), a solar generation array, battery testing equipment, and a visual/thermal inspection drone Building energy simulation software is also available for educational and research activities.

Manufacturing Processes Laboratory. Basic machine tools such as turning, milling, drilling, grinding, and measuring machines are available to help the student become familiar with metal-processing operations. In the academic year 2016-2017, the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering acquired two CNC machines: conversational milling and turning machines. It also acquired an array of 3-D printing machines that are frequently used in undergraduate courses and design projects. The equipment is also used to perform laboratory experiments in heat treatment, chip formation, tool life, cutting forces, temperature, chip metallurgy, and power consumption.

Quality and Reliability Engineering Laboratory. This laboratory allows students to have hands-on experience in actual methods of quality control and reliability engineering. A variety of software for control charts, sampling plans, and design of experiments is available. The laboratory has a wide array of metrology equipment such as digital calipers and micrometers, roundness measuring equipment, surface profilometers, and a coordinate measuring machine. It also has various materials testing equipment such as voltage stressing equipment and measuring microscopes. LABVIEW, Minitab, and STATGRAPHICS software are available for student use.