Environmental Process Simulation Center
The Environmental Process Simulation Center is a teaching facility that affords students hands-on opportunities to explore bench and pilot-scale processes for water treatment, wastewater treatment, and air-pollution control. Students also gain exposure to computer-control and data-acquisition techniques through their experimentation. Industry and consulting partners provide the unit processes that are studied.
Contact: Daisuke Minakata
Location: Dow 106
Benedict Lab—Concrete Initiative Research Laboratory
Benedict Lab offers 15,000 square feet of space dedicated to cement and concrete research. The facility is organized across three floors. The lower floor provides an area for mixing fresh concrete samples, including a room specifically calibrated for ultrahigh-performance concrete; the main floor, serviced by a five-ton overhead crane, is designed for large-scale testing; and the upper floor is equipped for the preparation of concrete samples, and also houses the split Hopkins bar for dynamic material characterization. The lab is staffed by technicians certified in concrete and aggregate, by the American Concrete Institute and the Michigan Concrete Paving Association, respectively, and has received a Pursuing Cement and Concrete Reference Laboratory certification. Testing services include slump of hydraulic-cement concrete (ASTM C143-00); and density (unit weight), yield, and air content (gravimetric) of concrete.
Contacts: Theresa Ahlborn, Lawrence Sutter
Locations: Minerals and Materials U112, U001 (Ahlborn), U002, &003 (Sutter)
Labs | Location | Contact |
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Environmental Engineering Sciences Teaching Laboratory | Dow 110 | David Perram |
Controlled Environment Chambers | Dow 810, 817 | Diasuke Minakata, Noel Urban |
Surface Water Quality Field Preparation Laboratory | Dow 816 | Noel Urban |
Materials Research Laboratory | Dow 822 | Qingli Dai |
Inorganic Analytical Laboratory | Dow 826 | Noel Urban |
Human-Centered Design Laboratory | Dow 827 | Daisuke Minakata |
Wastewater Research Facility | Dow 833 | Daisuke Minakata |
Environmental Chemistry Research Laboratory | Dow 835 | Judith Perlinger |
Physical-Chemical Treatment Processes Laboratory | Dow 838 | Jennifer Becker |
Biogeoenvironmental Engineering Lab | Dow 839 | Eric Seagren |
Organic Xenobiotic Laboratory | Dow 845 | Judith Perlinger |
Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory | Dow 850 | Jennifer Becker |
Surface Water Quality Sediment Laboratory | Dow 858 | Cory McDonald |
Surface Water Quality Kinetics Laboratory | Dow 860 | Jennifer Becker |
Louis Verrette Construction Materials Laboratory | Dillman B005 | Stan Vitton |
Ronald Krump Geotechnical Dynamics Laboratory | Dillman B010B | Stan Vitton |
Bechthold/Thompson Asphaltic Pavement Laboratory | Dillman B004 | Zhanping You |
Lee and Arleta Bernson Student Success Center | Dillman 102 | Julie Ross |
Peter Grant Timber Engineering Laboratory | Dillman 108 | Jake Hiller |
Transportation Enterprise Design Studio | Dillman 109 | Andrew Swartz |
Hydromechanics Laboratory | Dillman 110 | Brian Barkdoll |
Asphaltic Materials Research Laboratory | Dillman 314 | Zhanping You |