EME faculty and students have access to excellent experimental and computational laboratories.
The particle preparation laboratories are primarily used for mineral processing and environmental systems engineering experiments and research. The laboratories are equipped with characterization equipment used for determining physical, surface, and colloid properties of powders and research, and equipment used for crushing and grinding size separations, density-based separations, magnetic and electrical separation flotation separations, and solid-liquid separations.
Surface mining educates students in computer-aided surface mine design, calculation, and selection of appropriate surface mining systems. The professional surface mining software includes SURPAC (geological modeling and mine design), TALPAC (loader-trucks simulation), DragSim (dragline simulation), and XPAC (mine planning and scheduling). Students also have access to a rock mechanics laboratory and a ventilation laboratory.
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering facilities include production, rock, and fluid properties cement laboratories and a drilling rig simulator. We also have several research laboratories, including multi-phase fluid flow systems, a medical X-ray computerized tomography system, and a high-resolution industrial CT scanner.
The hydrology laboratory is used for research on permeability testing of rock and soil samples and strength testing of granular materials. The fluids laboratory is used for fluid flow and flame demonstration experiments.
This laboratory is used primarily for demonstrating fuel cell and hydrogen technology. Students can study Faraday's laws of electrolysis using three electrochemical systems, learn the Nernst equation in detail, and produce electrical energy.
This laboratory is predominantly used for research and teaching that is related to developing instrumentation for evaluating the effectiveness of respiratory protection and the development of surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensor systems for measuring organic vapors in breath and air. Equipment includes gas chromatographs, a digital fluorometer, respirator fit-testing equipment, a test atmosphere generation system and chamber, and electronic test equipment.