Daytona Beach Campus - College of Engineering

Department of Aerospace Engineering

Facilities

This laboratory is located on the first floor of the Lehman Building. It has a total of 1008 square feet, apportioned to two rooms as shown in the floor plan below.  This laboratory is devoted to experimental studies of the sources of aircraft noise and the means of reducing the intensity of sound radiated by propellers, engine exhaust, etc. The room houses a 1200 lb force capacity shaker table (a humongous stereo speaker) for vibration tests. There is a variety of instrumentation and computer software for gathering and analyzing acoustic data. This lab operates in conjunction with the anechoic wind tunnel located in the Wind Tunnel Lab across the hall. This will be used for for testing propellers or turbines up to 18 inches in diameter and for determining engine radiated noise and engine performance characteristics. The maximum flow speed is 160 knots with 0.2% turbulence intensity level.

This facility occupies 864 square feet on the second floor of the Lehman Building. A floor plan is shown below. Access is from an exterior hallway.  This laboratory is used for civil engineering courses in airport layout and infrastructure design.

This laboratory occupies 840 square feet on the first floor of the Lehman Building. A floor plan is sketched below. Entrance is from an interior hallway (double doors at the top). The small interior room provides storage and, through it, access to the Manufacturing Laboratory (LB 182).  This facility is used in conjunction with several courses in composite materials, for student projects, and contract work with industry.

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 below.  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.

This laboratory occupies 1380 square feet on the second floor of the Lehman Building. A floor plan is shown below. Access is from an exterior hallway at the left.  This facility is used in conjunction with several electrical and electronics engineering courses.

This laboratory occupies 1440 square feet on the first floor of the Lehman Building. A floor plan is sketched below. Entrance is from an interior hallway (the double doors at the bottom), and access to an exterior loading dock is at the other end of the room.  This facility is used in conjunction with flight test courses, for graduate research projects, and for contracted work with outside agencies.

This laboratory occupies 1612 square feet on the first floor of the Lehman Building. Main entry is from an interior hallway. Other doorways lead to the Materials Testing Lab (LB 178), the Composites Lab (LB 180),  the Stereolithography Lab (LB 181), the Welding/Repair Shop (LB 183) and to storage areas. The floor plan is sketched below.  This facility is used in all Aerospace Engineering design courses to incorporate design for manufacturing, for student and graduate research projects and for contracted work with outside industry.

This laboratory occupies 1152 square feet on the first floor of the Lehman Building. Entry is from an interior hallway, and double doors at the opposite end of the room open into the Manufacturing Laboratory (LB 182). The floor plan is sketched below.  This laboratory is used for courses in materials science and strength of materials, for graduate research projects and for contracted work with industry.

This relatively small laboratory occupies 588 square feet on the first floor of the Lehman Building. Access to the laboratory is from an interior hallway. Two doorways from this room lead respectively to the adjacent Composites Laboratory and Manufacturing Laboratory. The floor plan is shown below.  Stereolithography (STL for short) means three-dimensional printing. Embry-Riddle is one of the few universities in which undergraduate students have access to an STL machine. It is shown in the photo above left, the tall box with the large glass door, at the bottom of which can be seen a black vat which contains liquid resin. This shown more clearly in the photo below. One use of the STL machine is to rapidly produce accurate scale models of engineering students design projects. Students create their designs elsewhere using computer graphics software. Their graphics files, in STL format, are transferred to the desktop computer sitting alongside the STL machine. That computer drives a laser beam which traces out the intricate details of the three-dimensional shape, layer by layer, on the surface of the liquid resin. The resin hardens where struck by the moving pinpoint of laser light, which is barely visible in the picture below.  The solid plastic model rests on a perforated platform. It is built ("printed out") from the bottom up as the vertically-moving platform slowly recedes towards the bottom of the vat. Build times require a number of hours, depending on the size and complexity of the model. STL rapid prototyping machines are now in common use in industry. ERAU students are fortunate to be able to obtain first-hand experience with this new technology.The facilities are used in a variety of courses, for student projects, and by local industry. The laboratory is a major point of interest in tours of the Lehman Center.

This laboratory occupies 2200 square feet on the first floor of the Lehman Building. Access is from an interior hallway. Other doorways lead to a student projects room (LB 183), to the Machine Shop (LB185) and the Wood Shop (LB188).  The equipment in this room is used to test structures and components typical of those found in aircraft and spacecraft. The kinds of standard tests which can be done include uniaxial tension/compression, bending, torsion, fatigue, vibration and corrosion, as well as ultrasonic and acoustic emission nondestructive testing. Specialized structures, typical of wings, fuselages and trusses, are mounted on the large blue frame visible in the above photos and are subjected to loads applied by a 10,000 lb capacity hydraulic ram. Strain gages are used to measure the stresses. This laboratory is used in a variety of courses to investigate structural behavior under static and dynamic loading and for graduate research projects and contracts with industry.

This laboratory occupies 2304 square feet on the first floor of the Lehman Building. A sketch of the floor plan is shown below. Entry is through an interior hallway (the double doors at the top), with access to an exterior loading dock at the opposite end.  This facility is used in conjunction with courses in thermodynamics, propulsion and heat transfer, for graduate student research projects, and contract work with industry.

The wind tunnel laboratory, which occupies 2304 square feet,  is located on the first floor of the Lehman Building. Its main entrance is from an interior hallway, and there is also access to a loading dock on the exterior of the building. The floor plan is shown below. The interior room 176A was originally intended to be a data acquisition room.  The wind tunnel laboratory is used for undergraduate instruction, graduate research projects and, occasionally,  for contracted wind tunnel testing by companies or individuals from outside the University. AE309-Experimental Aerodynamics, a required course in the Aerospace Engineering curriculum, makes regular use of these facilities, as does AE411-Advanced Experimental Aerodynamics.