Circuits Lab
Classroom/Laboratory where electronic circuits instruction and experiments take place and Mechanics & Materials combined courses are taught. Staffed by trained student assistants during evening hours to allow work on experiments when faculty instructors are not present. Equipment includes:

• National Instruments hardware for data acquisition
• Laboratory power supplies, function generators, and oscilloscopes
• Fume hoods
• Strain gauge readers
• Thermocouple welders
• Fixtures for strain measurements
• Assorted mechanical hardware and electrical components to support student prototyping
• Soldering stations equipped with fume extractors and using lead-free solder
• LPFK circuit board prototyping machine

Engineering Analysis Lab
Laboratory space to support engineering mechanics sequence (Statics, Dynamics, Engineering Materials, and Fluids/Thermal Fluids). Equipment available includes:

• National Instruments hardware for data acquisition
• Laboratory power supplies, function generators, and oscilloscopes
• Load frames for static analysis
• Fume hoods
• Strain gauge readers
• Assorted mechanical hardware and electrical components to support student prototyping
• Hydraulic benches and pumps
• Flowmeters, pressure gauges, and transducers
• Two Instron tensile testing machines
• Two Rockwell hardness testers
• TestResourses fatigue testing machine
• Tormach CNC 4 axis vertical machining center
• Festo process control rig

Thermal Fluids Lab
The Advanced Thermal Fluids Laboratory, a facility jointly used by the Departments of Engineering and ISAT, is equipped with a closed circuit water tunnel, a subsonic wind tunnel,  and a sophisticated laser-based system designed to capture planar velocity distributions of a flow field, and a 3-D printer for building models. The Advanced Thermal Fluids Laboratory was designed to enable cross-disciplinary research and educational projects from many disciplines (for example engineering, ISAT, physics, biology, geology, and applied mathematics) and is a facility that can be used by faculty and students at JMU and neighboring academic institutions as well as business partners.

Our research labs include

• Sustainable Engineering Research Lab
• Human-Computer Interaction + Design Lab
• Additive Manufacturing Process and Properties Lab
• Systems Exploration and Analysis Lab
• Madison Academic Brewery

All engineering faculty conduct research, so you are welcome to reach out to any of them to inquire about future opportunities.

Digital Manufacturing Lab
Laboratory space equipped with high-power computers for generating three-dimensional digital models, also capable of performing finite element analysis, flow simulations, and other computer-based analysis. Additionally, this lab is equipped with numerous 3-D printers that can produce physical objects directly from digital models. 3-D printers include:

• Stratasys Elite
• Objet 30 Pro
• MakerBot Replicator 2
• Z-Print 450
• UP! 3D

Fabrication Lab
The Fabrication Lab is a shop for all Engineering students to work on their individual and group assignments. The lab is staffed by trained student assistants throughout the year to ensure safety and help less experienced students use tools safely. Machine and hand tools include

• Industrial grade horizontal band saw, floor-mounted drill presses, floor-mounted belt/disc sanders, and power miter saw
• Hand drills, jigsaws, Sawsalls, miter saws, combination squares, levels, protractors, wrenches, screwdrivers, tap and die sets, clamps, calipers, and more.

Machine Shop
Our fully equipped machine shop has a full-time staff machinist and trained student assistants on duty to assist with the safe operation of industrial-grade tools.  Advanced training is available for students who participate in the apprenticeship program. Equipment includes

• Five full-size knee mills
• Four industrial grade lathes
• Floor mounted drill presses
• Vertical band saws
• Horizontal band saws
• Measurement and inspection equipment
• Box and Pan break, sheet metal shear, and slip rolls

First-Year Design Studio
A flexible project space for first-year projects, strategically located adjacent to engineering faculty offices to support casual faculty-student interactions as early as the first year.

Sophomore Design Studio
A large, flexible project space for the construction of assignments in ENGR 231/232. Storage cabinets assigned to design teams are equipped with tools for projects. 

Junior/Senior Design Studio
The Design Studio is a full classroom equipped for low-risk experiments and housing cabinets for Capstone teams.