Appendix C - List of major instructional and laboratory equipment
Undergraduate Laboratories
Individual experimental units (rigs)
1- Immobilized enzyme conversion of glucose to fructose
2- Mixing dynamics
3- Crystallization
4- Process control
5- Mixing visualization
6- Fixed and Fluidized Beds
7- Data acquisition with LabVIEW
8- Fluid friction in pipes
9- Vortex tube thermodynamics
10- Gas membrane separations
11- PCR amplification of DNA
12- Catalytic hydrolysis of esters
13- Fuel cell
14- Electrophoresis for analysis/characterization of DNA and proteins
15- Heat exchanger
16- Evaporator
Laboratory multimedia station
Gas chromatograph (2), liquid chromatograph (1), ion chromatograph (1)
UV/visible spectrophotometers
Refractometers
Individual data acquisition systems for 8 experiments
Computational Facilities
Dell SC1420 Power Edge File Servers (2)
Lenovo Pentium IV 3000J Series Server (1)
Pentium IV computers (26) - connected to workstation and the IIT computer network by Ethernet
Multimedia system to provide data visualization and high-quality presentations - Canon Realis
SX50 projector
Apple Macintosh PCs (4)
Printers: Cannon IPF 7000 poster printer (1) & high-speed HP network printer (1).
State-of-the-art engineering licensed software: includes HYSYS, MatLab, LabView,
ChemCad, FemLab, and FORTRAN
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Conference room (1) equipped with a 50” plasma projection screen and computer
Two Pentium IV laptops, two LCD projectors, a DVD/VCR system, and a SmartBoard
interactive projection system - for instructional purposes in traditional ChE classrooms
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