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====== Labs and Equipment ======
===== Acoustic Microscopy Lab =====

**Room 311, Earth Engineering Sciences Building** \\ 
The Acoustic Microscopy Lab houses three acoustic microscopes for teaching and research: \\ 
  - The Ultran System for acoustic microscopy of large samples and low resolution (100 micron and up), \\ 
  - The Olympus UH-3 System for acoustic microscopy of small samples and high resolution (1 micron and up), and\\ 
  - The Ultrasonic Atomic Force Microscope U-AFM for acoustic microscopy of small samples and super resolution (10 nanometers and up). \\
 These instruments are being used to investigate thin films, coatings, bio-cells, and semiconductors.\\ 
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Georgios Maillis works on nuclear acoustic resonance for the detection of fissile materials.\\ 
===== Acousto-Optics Lab =====

**Room 310, Earth Engineering Sciences Building**\\ 
The Acousto-Optics Lab features the Microscopic Electronic Speckle Pattern Interferometer (MESPI) for measuring holographically the dynamic surface deformation (0.1 micron resolution) in-situ. For example, during laser drilling and cutting surface deformation results from thermal stress. Another feature instrument is a system for the detection of cracks in locomotive wheel tires with the use of electromagnetic acoustic transducers (EMATs).\\ 
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Brad Bond works with the Microscopic Electronic Speckle Pattern Interferometery (MESPI) system.\\ 

===== Nondestructive Evaluation Teaching Lab =====

**Room 406, Earth Engineering Sciences Building**\\ 
The Nondestructive Evaluation Teaching Lab features an X-ray instrument and an acoustic emission system. These instruments are part of the lab hands-on demonstrations for the EMch/MatSci 440 course: //Survey of NDE Techniques//.