Engine Dyno Laboratory

This facility is located at the south end of the Metallurgy building, on the lower level, and is used in the Mechanical Engineering Laboratory sequence. There are two parts:

An engine room containing a water-brake dynamometer, an 8-cylinder, fuel injected, naturally aspirated, computer-controlled Ford engine and various transducers;

A control room containing dynamometer control hardware, data acquisition equipment and data display hardware.

The dynamometer permits measurement of engine output torque and power. The associated transducers are used to measure air flow, fuel flow, pressure in a cylinder, engine speed, and CO and hydrocarbon emissions. An array of computers and data acquisition systems are used to record data.