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Facilities in the Department:
The department has well equipped laboratories
with modern instruments, developed with the financial assistance from the
State, and the Central Governments. The different laboratories are:
Basic Material Testing Laboratory
This laboratory has facilities for testing engineering materials. It has a 100 T UTM in addition to many state-of-the-art testing devices. The lab is extensively serving the needs of material testing for ongoing projects in Hassan and neighboring districts.
Geo-technical Engineering Laboratory
This laboratory houses the equipment's for
soil testing. The laboratory is used in the testing of soil samples for many
projects including Hassan-Bangalore Railway line project. A research work on
stabilized clay is being carried out in this laboratory.
Environmental Engineering Laboratory
This lab is equipped with sophisticated
facilities for training students in water quality studies and management. Some
of the facilities available include Gas Chromatograph, Ion Selective Electrode
Meter, Data logging Spectrophotometer (HACH) and Microbiological investigation
facilities. The laboratory is extensively used in several water quality
monitoring projects with special emphasis on FLUORIDE problem in drinking
water.
Cement Concrete and Highway Materials Testing
Laboratory
This laboratory has facilities for testing
cement, aggregates and asphalt. It has a 50 T loading frame with digital
devices for measuring strains and deformations. Concrete mix design, Material
testing and Non-destructive testing of concrete are the facilities which are
being utilised by construction organizations like PWD, Railways etc. through
the Consultancy cell.
Fluid Mechanics Laboratory
This laboratory is equipped with the modern
instruments and is used for training students and to carry out many project
works.
Survey Laboratory
This laboratory has modern equipments which
are extensively used for training. It has facilities to undertake Land survey,
Repair of survey instruments and Training of surveyors. Total stations are
being used extensively for all survey works .
Annual Survey Camp ( Extensive) will be
held for 2 weeks for pre final year students.
Computer Aided Design Center
The center has the modern computers of latest
configurations. The center is actively used for the research work in
Computer-aided analysis and design of structures.
1. Communication Laboratory:
A Communication Lab is developed to
understand the concepts of Analog and Digital Communication Systems
practically. This lab is equipped with various trainer kits of Communication
System with their trans/receivers to learn the basic principles and issues involved
in communication systems.
2. Communication Network & Transmission Lines Laboratory
This lab consists of Transmission Line
Trainer Kits with CRO, Signal Generator, Power supply; DMM to learn the
concepts networks, filters and transmission lines leads to understanding of
line communication, audio and video communication and micro wave communication.
3.
Digital Electronics Laboratory
Digital Lab is developed to test the functionality of various
combinational and sequential circuits. This lab is equipped with the trainer
kits of basic logic gates, flip-flops, counters and shift registers and data
converters.
4.
Digital Signal processing Laboratory
DSP lab is equipped with the DSP simulation software (Matlab) and the trainer
kits which help in understanding the concepts of signal processing in various
electronic systems.
5.
EDC Laboratory
EDC lab is developed to do design and analysis of different electronic
circuits. This lab consists of various trainer kits using which the students
can verify the performance of the basic electronic circuits such as
rectifiers feedback amplifiers, oscillators and operational amplifiers.
6.
Microprocessor, Microcontroller &Embedded System Laboratory
Embedded system Lab is developed to learn the various methods of designing and
developing the embedded systems. Microprocessors and microcontrollers are the
back bones of any embedded system. Hence, this lab is well equipped with the
Advanced Microprocessor & Microcontroller Kits along with their interfacing
cards.
7.
Microwave Engineering Laboratory
This lab consists of Microwave Test Benches like; Klystron Model,
Gunn diode Model.
8.
Project Laboratory
A well-advanced Project Lab is developed so that the students get acquainted
with different aspects of manufacture, design and analysis of different
electronic projects. This lab is equipped with Circuit simulation software and
with the facility of PCB layout designing and testing.
9.
Simulation Laboratory
This lab consists of 30 Personal Computers with necessary software’s required
for EC course. This lab is equipped with latest Pentium dual core Computers
with LCD Monitor and all Computers have licensed Software such as MATLAB,
Xilinx, and Proteus etc.
10.
VLSI Design Laboratory
This lab consists of 30 Personal Computers with latest Pentium IV Computers
with LCD Monitor. All Computers have softwares such as XILINX 9.1i registered
version and MICROWIND registered
version. VLSI Design Trainer kits for CPLD & FPGA, Verilog and VHDL tools
from Xilinx to write HDL code for digital circuits, Backend tools from
Microwind for placement, routing, layout and layout verification and export to
GDSII format.
11.
Antenna lab
Antenna lab is equipped with the antenna trainer kit which helps in understanding
the concepts of signal processing in various antenna systems and their
radiation patterns. This lab allows students to see visually how the most
common real world antenna design functions.
Lab Infrastructure Facilities
The department has following art laboratories catering to UG students:
Basic Workshop
Bench vices, Circular saw machine, Workbenches, Bench drilling machine, Bench grinder, Bench vices, Power hacksaw machine, Arc welding machine, Gas welding machine, Shearing machine, Circular cutting machine.
Foundry & Forging Lab
Universal Sand Testing Machine, Sand rammer, Beam balance, Permeability tester, Sieve analyser, Clay content tester, Moisture content testing machine, Ovens, Furnace, Different types of dies, Moulding boxes
Material Testing Lab
Brinell, Vickers, Rockwell hardness testers, Creep tester, Cupping tester, Impact tester, Rotary fatigue tester, Torsion tester, Universal testing Machines (manual and computer operated), Wear tester, Microhardness tester, Microscope.
Metrology & Measurements Lab
Calibration of thermo couple, Dial audio Oscillator, Five channel digital pressure indicator, Frequency, Audio Oscillator, Indicator, Load Cell, LVDT Amplifier, Gear tooth VernierCaliper.
Machine shop
Lathes, Milling Machines, Drilling Machines, Grinding Machines, Bench grinder, Polishing Machine, Shaping Machine, Surface Grinder.
Heat Transfer Lab
Forced convection apparatus, Pin fin apparatus, Free or Natural convection apparatus, Parallel flow & Counter flow heat exchangers, Thermal conductivity apparatus, Stefan Boltzman apparatus, Emissivity apparatus, Equipment for critical heat flux measurement, Vapour compression refrigeration apparatus, Air conditioning apparatus.
Energy conversion Engineering Lab
Air compressor, Blower, Bomb Calorimeter, Boys Calorimeter, Cloud and pour point apparatus, Abel Pensky flash and fire point apparatus, Pensky Martin flash and fire point apparatus, Redwood viscometer, Say bolt viscometer, Torsion viscometer, , Dead weight pressure gauge, Kirloskar air cooled and water cooled diesel engines, Petrol Engine, , Variable compression engine, Twin cylinder diesel engine (Morse test), Planimeter.
Fluid Machinery Lab
Francis turbine test rig, Kaplan turbine test rig, Pelton wheel test rig, Impact of jet on vane test rig, Friction in pipes test rig, Single stage centrifugal pump test rig, Multi stage centrifugal pump test rig, V-notch, Venturimeter, Orificemeter.
CAD & CAM/Automation Lab
CNC Turn Master, Flexible Manufacturing system, Computers, Softwares (ANSYS, Unigraphics, Inventor 9 with MDT, AutoCAD R-2005, Composite structure solver, Pamcrash solver).