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Walter E. Blessey
Hall
Building 11
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118
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Laboratory Facilities
Our undergraduate and graduate students have access to modern teaching and research
facilities located in Blessey Hall, the Mechanical Engineering Building, and the
Israel Environmental Sciences Building.
The hydraulics labratory is located on the first floor of Blessey Hall
and is used for teaching undergraduate hydraulics and research pertaining to water
quality in simulated drinking water distribution systems. The sediment transport
laboratory is used for research on sediment transport, resuspension and sedimentation.
Lab instruments include a particle image velocimeter, high speed digital imaging,
particle counting and size distributions, and fluorometry. The biotreatment laboratory
includes a constant temperature room and gas chromatographs.
The Department also enjoys the use of state-of-the-art research facilities in the
new Israel Environmental Sciences Building for undergraduate and graduate
research. The laboratory contains new gas and liquid chromatography instruments,
a surface tensiometer, a viscometer, oven and muffle furnaces, analytical balances,
and various field sampling equipment and instruments for environmental research.
The newly renovated geoenvironmental laboratory is used for teaching and research
in soil mechanics and environmental engineering. Hardware and instrumentation include
pumps, grinders, mixers, load cells, pH meters, balances, spectrophotometers, BOD
incubator, water purification, and other standard lab equipment and supplies. The
materials testing laboratory includes universal, compression, and impact testing
machines as well as surveying equipment.
The Department boasts a wide variety of computing, printing and plotting equipment.
Software for numerical modeling, computer-aided design, statistical analysis, geographical
information systems, water and air quality monitoring, natural hazard loss estimation,
and structural analysis are provided and maintained in the laboratory. The Department
also maintains extensive personal computers, and faculty and students have access
to a complex of UNIX servers through Tulane's Technology Infrastructure Services. |
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