The Basic Mechanical Engineering Laboratory (MAE 157 Laboratory): Students learn about basic measurements including temperature, fluid flow, strain, humidity, become familiar with data acquisition systems, and perform experiments on engineering systems including pipe flow, aerodynamic drag, a heat exchanger, a refrigeration system, a loaded arch, and an automobile engine. The Computer-Aided Design/Manufacturing (CAD/CAM) Laboratory (MAE 194 Laboratory): This laboratory provides students and researchers with modern CAD/CAM software packages, including PRO/Engineer, I-DEAS, PATRAN, NASTRAN, etc. This lab supports our undergraduate courses: 94, 162B/C/M, 168, 184, and 185. It is also open to all of our graduate students.

The Computer-Aided Design/Manufacturing (CAD/CAM) Laboratory (MAE 184 Laboratory): The CAD laboratory is one of the key instructional labs in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. It mainly supports undergraduate CAD and design courses. It also supports student projects of professional societies and supports faculty and graduate student research.

This CAD lab holds four design laboratory courses of our Mechanical Engineering undergraduate program – MAE 94, MAE 162B, MAE 162C, and MAE 162M. Students from these classes use two CAD softwares, SolidWorks (including AutoCAD) and CosmosWorks. SolidWorks also used in our Aerospace Engineering undergraduate courses MAE 154B and MAE 157A and supports our undergraduate research project course MAE 199. In addition, CAD lab offers finite element method software, Abaqus that is used by course MAE 168 and offers C/C++ and Java for MAE 184. The lab also has Matlab that is used by MAE 154B for general computing and simulation.

The Computer Numerical Control and Application Laboratory (MAE 185 Laboratory): In this laboratory the students learn the fundamentals of numerical control (NC) technology, programming of computer numerical control (CNC) machines in NC codes and APT language and with CAD/CAM systems. Students also gain experience in NC postprocessors and distributed numerical control, operation of CNC lathe and milling machines, and programming and machining complex engineering parts.

The Electromechanical System Design Laboratory (MAE 162C Laboratory): Students learn the basics of design, development, construction, and testing of complex mechanical and electromechanical systems. Assembled machines are instrumented and monitored for operational characteristics.

The Fluid Mechanics/Aerodynamics Laboratory (MAE 157A Laboratory): The laboratory includes several air and water channels for students to investigate aerodynamics, flow instabilities and turbulence. Hot-wire anemometers, force balance and modern data acquisition systems are available for advanced signal processing.

The Robotics and Motion Control Laboratory (MAE 163C Laboratory): Students gain hands-on experience of motion control and robotics; modeling of electromechanical systems, analog PID controllers, sensors, actuators, multi-axes coordination, and robot programming.

The Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer Laboratory (MAE 131AL Laboratory): Experiments in this laboratory include forced convection over a cylinder, internal natural convection; fixed and variable conductance heatpipes; pool boiling; a cooling tower; and a perforated plate heat exchanger.