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Measurements Lab

Location: Engr E-37

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The Measurements Laboratory provides undergraduate and graduate students with a state-of-the-art, hands-on teaching facility necessary to instruct fundamentals of biomedical studies including wet-lab techniques, Biosignal recording and analysis, Biomedical Imaging, Bioinstrumentation, and Microscopy.

The layout of the lab includes 4 general-purpose student lab benches plus two wet-lab benches. Each student lab bench consists of Evos XL microscope, micropipette, serological pipette, Magnetic stirrer, and Vortex. The wet-lab equipment consists of RT-PCR instruments, Western Blot System, distilled water system, biosafety cabinet, CO2 incubator, chemical hood, temperature controlled centrifuge, Benchtop incubator-shaker, Nanodrop UV-vis spectrophotometer, pH meter, Balance, Automatic autoclave, Osmometer, and Refrigerate/Freezer.

Courses that utilize the lab:

  • ECE 361 Introduction to Biomedical Engineering
  • ECE 438 Introduction to Medical Instrumentation
  • ECE 460 Principles of BME
  • ECE 467 Introduction to Biomedical Imaging
  • ECE 495E Electrical Engineering Senior Design I