Industrial Engineering Laboratories

Lab Name

Ergonomics and Metrology Lab

Lab Code

E&M

Courses Taught in the Lab

IEN 341, IEN 342, IEN 431, IEN 432, IEN 441

Major Equipment & Facilities

1.      Portable roughness checker: Measures Surface roughness

2.      Form and surface measurement system: Measures form and surface finish simultaneously

3.      Baseline 300lb: Measures grip strength

4.      Cardio fitness treadmill: Monitors ground reaction forces

5.      Bicycle Ergo-meter: Measures energy expenditures at different activity levels

6.      Human Bone Skeleton: For anthropometry and ergonomics

7.      Push/pull force gauge and accessories: Measures compression and tension

8.      Skinfold caliper: Measures skinfold thickness

9.      Complete posture evaluation set / Baseline Posture. Grid: Used for more précised posture appraisal

10.   Blood pressure monitor: Measures and Records BP and Pulse

11.   Pencil Maze test: Tour Puzzles help students to become problem solvers

12.   Maze, Pyramid Puzzle: Help students to become problem solvers

13.   Mirror tracer test: Help students to become problem solvers

14.   Corner Wiggly Block test: Help students to become problem solvers

15.   Grooved Pegboard test: Help students to become problem solvers

16.   Purdue Pegboard test: Help students to become problem solvers

17.   Digital Wrist Blood Pressure meter: Monitors BP on the move

Skills Acquired in the Lab

1.      Familiarity with the functioning and operation of the lab equipment and its uses in real world.

2.      Ability to understand the basic principles of Time & Motion study.

3.      Understanding

4.      Operate effectively with teamwork in carrying out laboratory experiments.

5.      Learn how to conduct and report experiments in a proper manner.

6.      Understanding the importance and necessity of safety measures in the laboratory.

7.      Analysis of experimental results and their interpretation.

Lab Name

Active Learning Lab

Lab Code

AC

Courses Taught in the Lab

IEN 201, IEN 202, IEN 481, IEN 482

Major Equipment & Facilities

1.      25 desktop computers

2.      Lab internal network

3.      Internet access

4.      Tables for students to work in groups

Skills Acquired in the Lab

1.      Ability to work in group activities; brainstorming, small group discussions, think-pair-share, student debate, learning cell, class game, and case base research.

2.      Skills required to function effectively on multi-disciplinary teams.

3.      Learn how to conduct and report experiments in a proper manner.

4.      Learn how to manage group and work coherently to deliver course requirements as group.

5.      Data acquisition and analysis skills.

6.      Engineering design skills for prototype building and testing.

7.      Ability of students to present professionally.

8.      Ability of students to use various problem solving techniques.

Lab Name

Computer Lab

Lab Code

CL206

Courses Taught in the Lab

IEN 322, IEN 323, IEN 421, IEN 422, IEN 424, IEN 431, IEN 432, IEN456

Major Equipment & Facilities

1.      25 desktop computers

2.      Lab internal network

3.      Internet access

4.      Installed software ( Office, SPSS, Minitab, Visual Studio)

Skills Acquired in the Lab

1.      Ability and knowledge to work on windows and Microsoft Office.

2.      Familiarity in network sharing.

3.      Ability to define, analyze and solve engineering and stochastic problems.

4.      Knowledge of fundamentals of programming.

5.      Ability to identify computer algorithm, flow charts and programs.

6.      Knowledge of basic Arena, SPSS, Minitab, and Visual Studio commands.

Lab Name

Computer Integrated Manufacturing Lab

Lab Code

CIM

Courses Taught in the Lab

IEN 361, IEN 362, IEN 363, IEN 461, IEN 463

Major Equipment & Facilities

1.      Pallet Transfer System: has the task to transport workpieces, raw material and semi-finished material from storage (AS/RS) to the processing stations like CNC or assembly stations and back to the AS/RS.

2.      Automatic Storage / Retrieval System AS/RS: has the task to store all materials of the CIM plant, which are raw material, purchased parts, produced workpieces, and final products.

3.      Flexible Robot Assembly Cell: the cell have the ability to assemble products, consisting of several components, by utilizing a full industrial, high precision and high performance industrial robot guided by a vision system ensure assembly and handling quality and to find positions and orientations. The cell gives the students an opportunity for practicing assembly tasks applied within industrial environments, starting by simple pickup of product components and placing them on the pallet and ending by assembling the product in the correct orientation of its various elements which cover several levels of complexity.

4.      Flexible Robot Feeder with linear axis: have the task to manage the material flow in the CIM system that consists of 2 CNC-machines and the robot mounted on a linear slide base.

5.      Quality Inspection Unit: This unit must have the capability of providing the students with an overview about fully-automated quality inspection processes utilized currently within the industrial environment.

6.      Milling CNC Machine with Various Controls: 3 axis CNC vertical machining center for industrial CNC programming and operating training, fully enclosed machine, PC controlled, interchangeable controls for CNC training on the most common, various, industrial standard control units on one machine.

7.      Turning CNC Machine with Various Controls: CNC slant bed turning machine with driven tools for industrial CNC programming and operating training. Fully enclosed machine, chip tray, PC controlled, interchangeable controls for CNC training on the most common, various, industrial standard control units on one machine.

8.      Set of workpieces for CIM System: Workpieces forming the final product of the CIM system should not be less than six different types where at least 10 units of each type are expected to be supplied.

9.      CIM Lab Programming Software (25 users and Related Accessories)

10.   PLC Programming Software

11.   Virtual Factory Environment and Automation software

12.   Robot programming and simulation software

13.   Interactive Robot simulation software

14.   CNC Machine control software

15.   Offline machine keyboards for programming and simulation

16.   CAD/CAM Software with necessary postprocessors for CNC machine control

17.   (25) Teacher and students PC including LCD

(1)   Laboratory printer

(2)   Projector and panel

18.   (25) Ethernet Cables

(3)   Router

19.   (2) Network switches 16 port

Skills Acquired in the Lab

1.      Familiarity with the functioning and operation of the lab equipment and its uses in real world.

2.      Ability to learn the basic concepts in various topics including production automation, mathematical modeling of production, industrial robots applications and programming, NC programming and machining, computer integrated manufacturing systems, and flexible manufacturing systems.

3.     Study robotics and CNC machining and manual programming in the lecture part of the course before using these skills in the laboratory.

4.     Operate effectively with teamwork in carrying out laboratory experiments.

5.     Understand fundamentals of automated production using robotics, computers, and CNC machines.

6.     Learn how to conduct and report experiments in a proper manner.

7.     Understanding the importance and necessity of safety measures in the laboratory.

8.     Analysis of experimental results and their interpretation.