Mechanical engineering laboratories provide hands-on application of classroom learning. Working with faculty in a lab setting enhances student understanding of theory and practice.
SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s lab equipment includes:
- Instron multi-purpose testing machine
- Bending moment and deflection of beams apparatus
- Electronic strain measurement equipment
- Static equilibrium devices
- Dynamics test stands: centrifugal force, ballistic projectiles, linear momentum, conservation of potential energy, acceleration, forces of gravity
- Machine shop for prototyping
- Computer Numeric Control (CNC), CNC machining center, CNC turret lathe
- Rapid prototyping
- Heat exchangers – conduction, convection, and radiation heat transfer units
- Heat pipes and pumps, solar energy systems
- Subsonic wind tunnels, reaction and impulse turbines
