Electrical Engineering Labs

Gonzaga's Electrical Engineering instructional labs are used in multiple courses across different engineering disciplines, including Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and the Robotics concentration.

These labs bridge the gap between the theorietical concepts learned in lecture courses and the practical application needed for a career.

Many are also available to the Senior Design teams and Engineering/Computer Science Academic Clubs.

power lab

Avista T&D Power Lab

Housing power system simulation equipment worth approximately $550,000, the lab provides students a unique opportunity to study and measure performances of single- and three-phase transformers, DC generator and motor, and synchronous generator and motor. Students also experience how to send electricity generated in the lab to a utility company.
circuits

Electric Circuits Lab

Students learn the fundamental concepts of electric circuit measurements, understand the main features of power supply sources, analog and digital multimeters, and learn how to operate and use the signal generator and the oscilloscope.
Digital Systems

Digital Systems Lab

Electrical and computer engineering students gain practical experience in the use of basic hardware components, Verilog hardware description language and state-of-the-art field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Through experiments, students become familiar with gates, multiplexers, decoders, flip-flops, counters, registers and displays.
breadboard

Electronics Lab

Students build and test electronic circuits on Digilent breadboards that are connected to desktop computers, which contain embedded instruments. These instruments consist of power supplies, oscilloscopes, network analyzers, and multimeters. Students gain practical experience in building and troubleshooting electronic circuits, using appropriate instruments, and gathering and presenting the data that is generated.

Robotics Lab

Students practice the principles of robotic design and manipulation through the integration of several hardware modules accompanied by the driving software. Through a series of carefully structured lab projects, such as line-tracking, object avoidance, maze solver, and others, students will gain the skills of developing and implementing various robotic systems' concepts using state-of-the-art robotic learning kits.
electrical communications

Controls Lab

Students conduct experiments to model a physical system consisting of a moving-coil permanent-magnet DC motor and a pulse-width modulation amplifier, then build a control system with analog PID controller for the physical system. Students also conduct experiments on digital control systems to observe the system output performance.
young man at control panel

Communications Lab

Students conduct experiments to model a physical system consisting of a moving-coil permanent-magnet DC motor and a pulse-width modulation amplifier, then build a control system with analog PID controller for the physical system. Students also conduct experiments on digital control systems to observe the system output performance.

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