Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Teaching Laboratories

There are six teaching laboratories used by students in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Programs.   These laboratories are equipped with the latest “standard” electrical test and measurement instrumentation including multimeters, function generators, DC power supplies and digital oscilloscopes.  Each laboratory station has a computer running LabVIEW software.   Each laboratory also houses unique equipment used to support the learning goals in various courses. 

The Instrumentation Laboratory – EN 395
In this laboratory, students learn best practices associated with electrical measurement methods and modern measurement tools.  This laboratory also has a number of dynamometers, motors and drive systems used to measure the performance of fractional horsepower electric motors.

The Analog Electronics Laboratory – EN 391
Analog circuit design and test is the focus of this laboratory – including transistor amplifiers, both small signal and large signal amplifiers; as well as operational amplifier characteristics and op-amp applications focusing on control.  GPIB communication for equipment control is also available in the laboratory as well as a spectrum analyzer for high frequency testing.

The Digital Electronics Laboratory – EN 365
This laboratory houses the equipment needed to design, build and test digital circuits -  combinational and sequential logic circuits using discrete components as well as programmable logic devices.  Microprocessor programming is also a heavy focus in this laboratory.

The Computer Engineering Laboratory – EN 388
The types of experiments conducted in this facility include designing, implementing, and tested embedded systems.  Pocket PCs are used as the current target device for these experiments.  In addition, Digital Signal Processing hardware is available for student projects and coursework.

The Project “Open” Laboratory – EN 379
This lab is used by students to work on projects for classes and for senior design outside of “normal” laboratory class times.  This room is supervised by graduate teaching assistants and is open every day of the week, including evenings and Saturday.  The project laboratory is equipped with two stations representative of each of the laboratories described above.

The Microwave/RF Laboratory – EN 369
Equipped for high frequency experiments, students use this laboratory to support their work in the electromagnetic fields classes, the antenna theory and design course as well as wireless communication.