Facilities and Labs
The Applied Engineering Technology Management department at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville gives students hands-on experience with processes and materials that are important in today's manufacturing and construction fields. Our facilities have everything you need to learn the intricacies of construction, industrial controls, or manufacturing.
Automation and Electronics
Metals Labs
The lab is equipped so students can perform the following types of casting operations:
- green sand molding
- petro-bond sand molding
- permanent molding
- lost wax molding
- lost foam molding
Students are able to pour:
- aluminum
- cast iron
- cast steel
Plastics Lab
Many consumer and industrial products are made of plastic and working with plastic is a valuable skill.
The plastics lab includes injection molders, blow formers, vacuum formers, and more.
Robotics
FANUC robots are in the top three robotics companies worldwide. Our labs have three industry-standard FANUC robots, two of the LR Mate range and one M. These are interfaced with conveyors and vision systems. In addition to the physical robots, we also use offline robotics programming, using the industry-standard ROBOGUIDE software package. As technology merges across all sectors, we utilize the FANUC robots to not only cover robotics but also automation, vision, and manufacturing. In addition to practice in robot programming and troubleshooting, this lab is also used in interfacing sensors and actuators in automation. FANUC Robotics ROBOGUIDE simulation software and teach pendants available for students to learn how to program real-life programming and robotics implementation skills. This lab is a springboard for our graduates, as manufacturing engineering and automation managers, our graduates are familiar with the full spectrum of tasks that of an operator, technician, engineer or programmer needed to set up, program, troubleshoot and maintain robots.
Robotics and Controls Lab
Robotics are present in an ever-growing percentage of factories. We provide experience in our Robotics and Control lab with an x-axis robot, and a work cell.