The Industrial Engineering Department offers students the opportunity to receive hands on experience to practice the concepts and techniques learned in the classroom. In order to fulfill this commitment, our laboratories have been designed to cover major areas of Industrial Engineering. In our laboratory facilities there is an investment of over $0.5 million in state of the art technology. This investment provides our students with an excellent opportunity to acquire current knowledge and expertise that industry demands.

a. Industrial Robotics
In this laboratory students are able to carry out practices related to robot programming and equipment interfacing. Among the equipment available we have five Seiko industrial robots, and one PUMA 500 series, one PUMA 200 series, two Pegasus, and several Microbot.

b. Operations Management
The operations management laboratory consists of a Novell 3.12 network with twenty (20) Intel Pentium III personal computers for student use. This network offers the student the opportunity to access specialized software to tackle industrial engineering problems. This laboratory has the equipment and software required to develop the system analysis, solutions development, and decision-making skills in our students. The hardware avail-able in this laboratory includes twenty personal computers, and a laser printer. The software in the network includes Computer Aided Design, Statgraphics Plus for Windows, Witness Simulation software, Factory CAD and Factory Flow, Microsoft Project, Power Point, Microsoft Word, Excel, Backsoft, Lindo, 4M-U, Metadesign, Disaster Finite Scheduling software, Storm, Theory of Constraints Simulators, and other relevant software.

c. Human Factors and Methods Engineering
This laboratory was designed to provide the students with the opportunity to carry out practical experiments concerning motion and time studies, noise and illumination, work-station design, methods improvement, performance rating, and other areas of human performance at work. The laboratory includes adjustable workstations, ergonomic equipment, soundproof cabins, sound level meters, light meters, vision testers, and traditional motion and time study equipment.

d. Instrumentation and Control
This laboratory was designed to allow IE students the opportunity to work with current automation and control technology. In this lab they get to know and use current technology in the fields of pneumatic, industrial sensing devices, and programmable logic controllers. Through a series of well designed lab practices, students get to know the technology and step through the automation process, from basic applications to systems integration.

e. Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Manufacturing Processes Laboratory
The laboratory provides the means for understanding classical machining processes. It includes three CNC machines including two CNC lathes and one CNC Milling machine. The equipment presents two levels of automation: single tool and multiple tool (tool changer) machines. Students learn hands-on how to program and operate CNC machines from basic cutting operations to more complex block operations.

f. Computer Systems and Network Laboratory
This laboratory consists of a collection of computers and devices connected by communication channels in the limited geographical area of the Industrial Engineering department, Local Area Network (LAN). It includes a Server connected with various workstation computers. The network has a HUB to connect the substation computers. The networking cabling used in this laboratory includes the last technology on wiring, those are unshielded twister pair (UTP), coaxial or optic fiber, RJ 45 connectors and jags. Specialized tools are used to prepare the wiring. Windows 2000 for server and Windows 2000 Professional software are used to handle this Local Area Network. This laboratory constitutes a real network environment for our students, providing the opportunity to work in the network architectures, operations system set up, network printing, client/server environment, administration and support, managing data performance and security.