It is the job of the engineer to assemble these systems, to get them working, and to modify them when requirements change. This requires sound knowledge of electronic instrumentation. The Instrumentation Lab, housed in Randolph 217A, is where electronic instrumentation is taught.
Students work singly or in pairs at one of the four stations.
Computer software, specially written in house, is used to guide students at their own pace through a series of exercises designed to give them experience of using instrumentation in laboratory-type situations. At other times of the year computers used in the instrumentation laboratory are made available to design students as part of the Senior Design Laboratory which shares the same space.