Upcoming Training Schedule

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