Facilities
One of the strengths of the Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering program at Penn State is our unbeatable student laboratory facilities. In fact, Penn State's IME department, located in Leonhard Building, has more laboratory space dedicated to student instruction and research than any other IE program in the U.S. Penn State IE student have hands-on access to leading-edge equipment and software not available in other programs. As part of their course work, they could find themselves:
- Measuring human respiration and heart rate as work progresses
- Pouring molten aluminum
- Machining hardened steel
- Developing and manufacturing a product—starting with computer-aided design
- Programming a robot
- Writing computer programs for analysis, data collection, and control of manufacturing system
Teaching Laboratories
Benjamin W. Niebel Work Design Laboratory
Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing (CAD/CAM) Laboratory
Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Robotics Laboratory
Electronics Assembly Laboratory
Factory for Advanced Manufacturing Education (FAME) Laboratory
PC Laboratory
PC Classroom
Precision and Quality Measurements Laboratory
Research Laboratories
Applied Optimization Laboratory
Applied Statistics Laboratory
Center for Intelligent Information Processing (CIIP)
Center for Manufacturing Enterprise Integration (CMEI)
Distributed Intelligent Systems and Controls: Research, Education, and Technology (DISCRETE) Laboratory
Laboratory for Intelligent Systems and Quality (LISQ)
Machining Research Lab
Process Mechanics/Workholding Research Lab
Reverse Engineering Lab
Virtual Tools and Robotics (VTR) Lab