The Mechanical Engineering Metrology Lab is located in room B1178 ME Building (1513 University Ave.), and contains 3 instruments that are available on a fee/hour basis for users at UW-Madison, other non-profits, and for-profit users.

This site details the various pieces of equipment, what they can do, how to get trained to use them, and how to register in the software system that is used by the College of Engineering for managing registration, login, and billing for usage. There are also hand tools for metrology in the space, but these are not for use on a fee-basis. They are available for courses to use for educational purposes.

Equipment Status

Lab Supervisor

Frank Pfefferkorn
Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
frank.pfefferkorn@wisc.edu

 

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Industrial Micro-CT

  • Operational with limited image quality. The X-ray detector has a line of bad pixels. Approximately 10% of the detector pixels are bad.
  • Connected to FOM

3D Optical Metrology System

  • Fully operational
  • Not yet connected to FOM system

Coordinate Measuring Machine

  • Fully operational
  • Not yet connected to FOM system

FOM is the UW-Madison Facility Online Manager software used to schedule time on instruments in user facilities, track usage, and prepare billing statements for hours of use.