Kenneth Roe Laboratory for Mechanical Engineering Design

The Kenneth A. Roe Senior Design Laboratory provides workspace and support (instrumentation, tools, etc.) for the design, construction, and testing of capstone-design projects in Mechanical Engineering. The laboratory serves as a base for all the senior design teams. It has workbenches for at least ten design teams to build and assemble prototypes. Major machining work needed in fabricating prototypes is carried out in the Institute's Machine Shop, and in the Learning Factory on the first floor of DMI. Large-scale prototypes such as the SAE race car are assembled and tested in other spaces, for example, at the riverside laboratory. Prototype analysis and performance simulation are carried out in Arthur W. Fielding Computer Laboratory.