Design Lab

133 Lehman Building

Contact Person: Jim Ladesic

Description

This laboratory is located on the first floor of the Lehman Building and occupies 2400 square feet. It has a double door entrance from an interior hallway, and a single door opening to the exterior of the building. The room is partly set up with desks and whiteboard for design lectures and presentations. The rest of the room is partitioned into four design team work areas with tables and computer terminals. The basic floor plan is shown to the right.

Equipment

Computer and peripherals
- Eight IBM Intellistations.
- Twelve 1.4 GHz Dell 330's.
- One Apple full page scanner.
- One Lexmark laser printer.
- One Hewlett-Packard E-size plotter.
- One Hewlett-Packard D-size plotter.
- One Hewlett-Packard Deskjet color printer.
Software:
- CATIA
- Varimetrix 6.1 3-D solid modeling and computer aided manufacturing system.
- Post Works CAM post processor to program Komo CNC milling machine.
- Cadkey 7 CAD system.
- PMARC C.F.D. package.
- Nastran for Windows finite element structural analysis software.
- Working Model dynamics modeling.
- Public Domain Aeronautical Software (NASA) aerodynamics panel method analysis.
- RDS Student (Raymer) aircraft design software.
- Microsoft Office.
- Lotus Smartsuite.
- MathCad 5 equation solver.
- Hardware
- Several dozen representative pieces of aircraft structure.

Utilization

This laboratory is used entirely for undergraduate instruction. The lecture portions of AE420-Airplane Preliminary Design and AE421-Airplane Detail Design are held in this room. When classes are not being conducted, the lab is used by teams of Aerospace Engineering students to work on their design projects.