State of the art facilities were incorporated into
the civil engineering department facilities when Fawick
Hall was renovated. If you are an alumnus, you would be absolutely
amazed at the improvements! If you are a proposective student, we
invite you to compare our facilities with any undergraduate civil
engineering department in the country. The sections below
summarize the facilities available for our students.
Computer Laboratory
This computer lab is designated for civil engineering
students only. All of the PCs are networked and wired to the Internet.
New computers are installed each year to keep up with current
technology. The lab also has scanners, printers and a very nice
Hewlett Packard inkjet plotter for large-scale drawings. Current
software includes Eaglepoint, AutoCAD 2004, Intell-CAD, WinPAS,
Winstabl, MS Office, Giant, TR55 and Visual Analysis.
Surveying Laboratory
Surveying is fundamental for civil engineering design
and construction. TSU civil engineering students obtain hands-on
training in basic theory and the use of surveying equipment. Surveying
laboratory instruments include the following: Topcon and Pentax
Total Stations with HP Data Collectors, Laserplane Electronic
Level, Nikon Digital Theodolite, Topcon Automatic Levels, Garmin
Handheld GPS Receivers.
Environmental Engineering Laboratory
In this laboratory, students apply principles of chemistry
to solve engineering problems such as treating drinking water,
air, wastewater, and contaminated soil. The environmental engineering
laboratory is well equipped with standard instrumentation (i.e.
digital scales, standard drying ovens, laminar flow hoods, bionocular
microscope, gang stirrer, constant temperature bath, dessicators,
and incubator) and state-of-the art equipment (i.e. atomic absorption
spectrometer, reverse osmosis and ion exchange water system, particulate
matter air sampler, chemical oxygen demand reactor, programmable
high temperature furnace, UV/vis spectrophotometer, pH/ISE meter,
turbidity meter, dissolved oxygen meter, and sound pressure level
meter).
Materials Engineering Laboratory
Most civil engineering projects are constructed of concrete,
steel, asphalt, wood and/or polymers. In this lab, students focus
on concrete and asphalt. Steel testing is performed in the mechanical
engineering lab. Overall, the major equipment in this lab includes
the following: Tecquipment HI-Tech Test Stand with Beam and Frame
Experiments, Riehle Bros 300,000-lb. Compression Machine, Plain
Concrete Beam Tester, Rotap Auto Sieve Shaker, Gilson Mechanical
Testing Screen, Scott Engineering Science Corporation Polariscope
and Test Stands, and BLH and SR-4 Strain Indicator, etc.
Soil Mechanics Laboratory
Almost every project that civil engineers design are
built on the ground, under the ground or with the ground! Therefore
students learn the fundamental engineering properties of soil
in the soil mechanics laboratories. The major equipment in this
laboratory includes the following: Consolidometers, Triaxial Test
Machine and CBR Machine, TESTlab Corp. Unconfined Compression
Machine, Wykeham Ferrence Direct Shear Apparatus, Proctor Test
Apparata, Atterberg Test Apparata, Sieve sets, Hydrometer Analysis
sets, DCP test equipment, Constant head permeameters and Data
acquisition. In 1995 the civil engineering department was awarded
a National Science Foundation ILI award for new and innovative
lab equipment in the Soils Mechanics Laboratory.
Hydraulics Laboratory
Students learn the principals of water resources engineering
in the hydraulics laboratory. They also learn how to stay
dry during the experiments! Major equipment includes the following:
Tecquipment Hydraulic Bench with Orifice and Jet Impact Apparata,
12-ft Hydraulic Flume with Weirs, Spillways and other Accessories,
Technovate Pipe Network complete with Pump, Tank, Manometer, and
a Computer Integrated Automatic Data Acquisition System.
