In a separate laboratory, eight additional computers are equipped as CAD workstations with digitizers and plotters. A transmission Polariscope and related equipment are available to investigate in a wide variety of two dimensional photo-elastic models. This laboratory contains equipment for making the significant quality control and identification tests on asphalt cements, cutback asphalts, and asphalt emulsions. Equipment for the design, mixing, compaction, and testing of asphalt concrete paving mixtures by the Marshall and other methods is included. A curing room, mixing equipment, air entraining measuring apparatus, scales, and other minor equipment are provided in this laboratory.
Testing is accomplished using materials laboratory equipment.
Equipment is provided for a wide variety of experiments and tests involving the flow of water over weirs or through pipes, meters, orifices, or a Parshall flume. Bacteriological examinations may also be made for wastewater analysis, biochemical oxygen demand, and solids content. The equipment includes incubators, a muffle furnace, pH meters, dissolved oxygen probes, electrophotometic devices, an autoclave, a constant temperature refrigerator, a drying oven, a water still, a fume hood, a microscope, and essential minor tools and equipment. This equipment includes planimeters, transits, levels, theodolites, level rods, chains, tapes, total stations and data collectors. Two humanity or social science electives, one technical elective, and one civil engineering design elective are required.