Laboratories Resources and Support:
All the labs are equipped with P-IV Intel based personal computers, Laser Printers and Video Projectors as teaching aids. The PC’s in most of the labs are connected to the network with access to Internet as well. A coordinator (Faculty member) is assigned for each lab. The role of the coordinator is to work with the course instructor in assessing new equipment requirements for the lab. The lab development committee will collect the requirements for labs from coordinators and do the necessary budgeting and submit it to the department chairman for further processing. The lab development committee meets periodically to assess the new lab equipment requirements and follow up on the acquisition process through the University Purchasing Department. The equipments in the labs are periodically checked for working conditions and the necessary maintenance is done by lab staff where as required. There are two lab staff to carry out the necessary installation, maintenance of the lab equipments. The department is in process to add one to two more lab staff members in the face of increasing work load and increasing student population during recent years.
List of Laboratory Equipments at the department
The following is the list of laboratory equipments available in our labs
1 | DC Servo Systems for Speed and Position control studies | (06 sets) |
2 | A Digital Servo System for Speed and Position control | (01 sets) |
3 | Magnetic Levitation units | (06 sets) |
4 | Inverted Pendulum units | (06 sets) |
5 | Twin-Rotor MIMO System units | (06 sets) |
6 | Process Trainers for temperature monitoring and control | (02 sets) |
7 | Control Simulators Comdyna | (05 each) |
8 | Two-Tank units | (06 units) |
9 | Ball & Beam units | (03 units) |
10 | Ball & Hoop units | (03 units) |
11 | Sorter Conveyor workcell units | (02 units) |
12 | Vibration study and analysis simulators | (04 units) |
13 | Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) | (08 units) |
14 | Power Electronics Control kits | (01 set) |
15 | Magnetic Bearing unit | (01unit) |
16 | Flow Transmitters | (03 units) |
17 | Level Transmitters | (03 each) |
18 | Pressure Transmitters | (04 each) |
19 | Temperature Transmitters | (03 each) |
20 | Flow measuring sensor kits | (03 each) |
21 | Pressure measuring sensor kits | (03 each) |
22 | Level measuring sensor kits | (03 each) |
23 | Temperature measuring sensor kits | (03 each) |
24 | Speed measuring sensor kits | (03 each) |
25 | Vibration measuring sensor kits | (03 each) |
26 | Temperature sensors & control kits | (03 each) |
27 | Yokogawa Stardom System | (01 each) |
28 | Portable Gas Analyzer unit | (01 each) |
29 | Robot arms | (04 each) |
30 | Robot construction LEGO kits | (05 each) |
31 | Traffic Light units | (02 each) |
32 | Sorter Units | (01 each) |
33 | Washing Machine units | (02 each) |
34 | Computer controlled Engraving machines | (01 each) |
35 | Milling machine | (01 each) |
36 | Electric saw and cutter units | (01 each) |
37 | Universal Programmer unit | (01 each) |
38 | A-to-D and D-to-A Converters | (02 each) |
39 | Spectrum Analyzers | (02 each) |
40 | Oscilloscopes in labs | (25 each) |
41 | Signal Generators in labs | (15 each) |
42 | Power Supply units in labs | (15 each) |
43 | Multimeters and Soldering Stations | As needed |
On IT side, it includes a staggering number of over one hundred (100) Pentium-IV Personal Computers with installed commonly used software packages and lots of professional softwares. All labs are equipped with laser printers and five labs are also equipped with overhead video projectors for teaching and presentation purposes.
Professional software packages in use at the department
Item No. | Package Name | Functionality | License Type |
01 | Matlab | Scientific Computations & Simulation | Site license CCSE |
02 | LabVIEW | DAQ & Control Simulations | Dept. License SE |
03 | Minitab | Statistical computations | Site license ITC |
04 | Statistica | Statistical computations | Site license ITC |
05 | ARENA | Discrete Simulations | 10 users license |
06 | GAMS | Algebraic Modeling | Site license |
07 | LINDO | Optimization Modeling | Site license |
08 | LINGO | Optimization Modeling | Site license |
09 | What’s Best | Optimization Modeling | Site license |
10 | ProModel | Discrete Simulations | Student & Professor license |
11 | SAP | Database & Business Solutions | Dept. license |
12 | DynSim | Process Control Simulations | 10 users license |
13 | SmartDraw | Presentations and Charts | Dept. license |
14 | ILOG CPLEX | Optimization | 10 users license |
15 | Microsoft packages | For Word Processing, Speadsheet and Presentation & Charts etc. | Site license ITC |