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Special Materials Laboratory

Special Materials Lab

This is a shared lab between Professor Jackie Li of Mechanical Engineering and Professor Toby Cumberbatch of the Electrical Engineering department. For the mechanical engineering department, the major goal of the lab is to provide students opportunities having first hands-on and research experiences on advanced materials such as ferroelectric materials and shape memory alloys.

Facilities

  • Carver Hydraulic Press machine
  • Thermolyne High Temperature Furnace
  • Thermolyne Durable Benchtop Muffle
  • NESLAB Non-refrigerated Digital Bath
  • MTI 2000 Fotonic Sensor
  • HP 4294A Impedance Analyzer

Current Project

  • Experimental testing of electro-mechanical coupling behavior of PZT