ANSYS is a major vendor of software for engineering analysis. ANSYS offers students a license to use their products. To use this software you need to agree to their license terms and download the software from an ANSYS web page

The Mechanical Engineering Lab Team, MELT, are Mechanical Engineering students who have sufficient training in manufacturing processes that they are allowed to instruct and supervise other students.

Dr. Etesami has written a textbook on geometric tolerancing called Design for Fit: Applications of Geometric Tolerancing to Machine Design.

Go to the web site for D4F to download the book along with Excel macros and a slide presentation given to the Oregon Section of the ASME.

Portland has some excellent local sources of new and used electronic components and equipment. We list a few of those resources here.

Portland has many excellent hardware stores. I'm partial to the smaller neighborhood stores because these often have a large assortment of fasteners that you can buy in small quantities.

Here is a list of hardware stores close to the PSU campus.

The MME Department Machine shop and the ECE Department Electronics Prototyping lab are important resources for fabrication of parts and prototypes.

• MME Machine shop
• Portland State Electronic Prototyping Lab

Lab Assignments for Capstone Teams

Student teams are assigned a workbench in one of the three Capstone labs: EB 410, EB 430 and EB 480.