Facilities
Automotive Engineering Lab
The auxillary space in the basement of the parking garage is the primary workspace for large automotive projects, such as thet Formula SAE race car, SAE mini-baja car, and the zero-emissions Lightweight Urban Vehicle.
Burkes Design Lab
The Burkes Design Laboratory is used by students completing their year-long senior design capstone project for team meetings, planning, brainstorming sessions, design work, and other team needs.
Classrooms
All of the classrooms in Jobst Hall are equiped with traditional blackboards and modern computer projectors and screens.
Computer Labs
The PC lab is a desktop publishing and numerical analysis lab intended for undergraduate and graduate students’ use.
Fluid Mechanics Lab
The facilities in the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory includes a subsonic wind tunnel, a supersonic wind tunnel, and an open-channel flow water table, along with various smaller experiments, instrumentation, and equipment for the study of basic hydrualics, aerodynamics, hydro turbines, pipe flow, flow rate measurements, jet forces, and hydrostatics.
Instrumentation And Measurements Lab
Jobst 121 houses the instrumentation and measurements laboratories, used primarily for ME 303 and ME 403 laboratory courses.
Machine Shop
Jobst 120 is the primary machine shop for the Mechanical Engineering department and also serves the needs of the College of Engineering and Technology.
Materials Testing And Modeling Lab
The lab was established to serve educational and academic research needs as well as collaborative research and service in the area of materials testing, characterization and development of materials constitutive modeling.
Projects Lab
This is flexible space that contains areas for working on large projects such as the Formula Car, desktop workspace for smaller projects, and cubicles for team meetings and conference calls.
Robotics Lab
The laboratory is used to teach the students robotics and mechatronics.
Systems Optimization And Analysis Research (SOAR) Lab
The lab houses a variety of research projects used by both undergraduate and graduate students.
Thermodynamics And Heat Transfer Lab
Jobst 116 houses laboratories for the study of thermodynamics and heat transfer.