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Undergraduate Materials Laboratories

The new state-of-the-art laboratories listed below are used for demonstration and projects in the various undergraduate materials courses.

See also: Manufacturing Engineering Department Maching Laboratory.

Casting and Welding Laboratories

Professor Vinod Sarin
Lab Supervisors: Earl Geary, Robert Sjostrom
730 Commonwealth Avenue, Rm 306

The Casting Laboratory is capable of melting metals and alloys up to 1200 C, for fabricating castings and investigating process technology. This lab is equipped with a state-of-the-art McENGLEVAN high temperature electric unit, and a gas-assisted melting furnace. The lab is also fully equipped with sand mixing and blending equipment and molds.

The Welding Lab contains two new TIG (MILLER) welding units and one spot welder. These resources are extensively used by students for their product design and development projects.

Metallography Laboratory

Professors Vinod Sarin and Soumendra N. Basu
Lab Supervisor: Earl Geary
730 Commonwealth Avenue, Rm 308
Phone: 617/358-1564

Fully equipped for polishing and optical microscopy, this lab contains all equipment necessary for cutting, mounting and polishing samples for optical microscopy. The lab is also equipped with several standard OLYMPUS optical microscopes, one stereo zoom microscope, and a computerized OLYMPUS inverted optical microscope.

Mechanical Testing Laboratory

Professors Vinod Sarin and Soumendra N. Basu
Lab Supervisor: Earl Geary
730 Commonwealth Avenue, Rm 308
Phone: 617/358-1564

This lab is equipped with several ROCKWELL hardness testers, a micro hardness tester, a new computer controlled INSTRON 8800, and all peripheral mechanical working and bending tools.