Students in each course are involved in open-ended projects. A short description of each of our engineering laboratory courses follows. MECE 3445 Material Science. Because of highly specialized and costly equipment, four separate experiments are performed simultaneously over the first and second half of the semester, and groups of four students are rotated through each experiment, for a total of eight exercises over the course of the term. MECE 3360 Experimental Measurements.
Emphasis is on measurement techniques.
Students work as individuals or in pairs. All students must work on an open-ended project. MECE 4371 Thermal-Fluids Laboratory. Students are rotated through sets of experiments where the capital cost of the equipment is high. The emphasis is on fluid flow and heat transfer.