The Machine Shop, Electronics Shop, and Laboratory Staff at the Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering are dedicated to providing support services to faculty, staff and students for a broad range experimental research activities and laboratory education. In this page you will be able to find links to documents and forms covering a range of laboratory related activities
Laboratory Support & Safety Information
All AOE personnel (faculty, staff, graduate students, wage employees and undergraduate researchers) are required to have core safety training from Virginia Tech Enviromental Health and Safety (EHS). To obtain you must register on the EHS Training webpage, enroll in and then pass the 6 required classes. These classes are:
- Electrical Awareness
- HazCom Right to Know
- Fire Extinguisher
- PPE Awareness
- Lockout-Tagout
- General Laboratory Safety
Before personnel can begin work in any AOE Experimental Workspace they must have the explicit permission of the faculty or staff member responsible for that space (see table below), be listed in the Safety Management System site for that space, and have met all the safety form and additional training requirements for that space.
Each experimental workspace must have a current safety form that can be found on the door to the space. The form includes documentation specific hazards that users need to be aware of, training that is required before they begin work in that space, the chemicals present in the lab and the location of their safety data sheets, and any rigs within the space that have their own safety requirements (and form).
Copies of the safety forms for all AOE experimental workspaces, and experimental rigs are also linked in the following table. At the bottom of this page a second table is provided with links to documents or webpages with other relevent safety information.
Experimental Workspaces and Safety Forms
A full copy of each safety form listed below should be prominently posted next to the facility listed
| Location | Lab/workspace safety form | Responsible faculty/staff | Safety forms for experimental rigs |
| Mitchell Hall | Stability Wind Tunnel | William Devenport, 1-4456,devenport@vt.edu | Stability Wind Tunnel Test Section
Particle Image Velocimetry System |
| VTSS 133 | Assured Vehicle Autonomy (AVA) Lab | Mathieu Joerger, 1-6707, joerger@vt.edu | |
| VTSS 145 | Intelligent Design Optimization (IDOpt) Lab | Darshan Sarojini, 1-6707, sdarshan@vt.edu | |
| VTSS 150 | Cavitation Lab | Olivier Coutier-Delgosha, 1-3168, ocoutier@vt.edu | Cavitation Rig 1
Cavitation Rig 2
Single Bubble Generation |
| VTSS 150 | Marine Robotics Lab | Mingi Jeong, 1-7061, mingijeong@vt.edu | |
| VTSS 158 | Experimental Aeroacoustics Lab | William Devenport, 1-4456,devenport@vt.edu | Anechoic Wall-Jet Wind Tunnel
ONR Rotor Rigs
Anechoic Open Jet Tunnel |
| VTSS 158 | Unsteady Fluid Mechanics and Acoustics (UFMA) Laboratory | Justin Jaworski, 1-1977, jaworski@vt.edu | |
| VTSS 235 | Model Building Center | Michael Philen, 1-2548, mphilen@vt.edu | |
| VTSS 235 | Intelligent Multiscale Mechanics for Predictive Advanced Computational Technology (IMMPACT) | Sourav Saha, 1-3372, souravsaha@vt.edu | |
| VTSS 237 | Autonomous Aerospace Systems (A2Sys) Lab | Ella Atkins, 1-5940, ematkins@vt.edu | |
| VTSS 239 | Space Communications, Optics, Payloads, and Engineering Lab (SCOPE) | Samantha Parry Kenyon, 1-5963, spkenyon@vt.edu | |
| VTSS 239 | Space Systems Lab | Bradley Denby, 1-2618, bdenby@vt.edu | |
| VTSS 245 | Shared UAV Motion Tracking Lab | Mathieu Joerger, 1-6707, joerger@vt.edu | |
| Surge 118A and 109A | Electronics Teaching Lab and Support Shop | John Burleson, 1-4430, jburles@vt.edu | |
| Surge 118E | Aerospace Structures and Materials Lab | Michael Philen, 1-2548, mphilen@vt.edu | Instron Impact System
Instron Uniaxial Testing Frame |
| RB2 100 | Aerospace Structures and Materials Lab (Composites and Materials)
| Gary Seidel, 1-9897, gary.seidel@vt.edu | Scanning Electron Microscope
Charpy Impact Frame
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| RB2 100 | Solid Rocket Propulsion Lab | Greg Young, 1-5222, gyoung1199@vt.edu | |
| RB2 100 | Materials for High-Temperature and Corrosive Environment Laboratory | Yao Fu, 1-8722, yaof@vt.edu | ATS creep machine
Instron Fatigue machine
Tabletop drill and lathe
Bridgman furnace
Polisher
Cortest_SSRT
Thermofisher Furnace |
| RB2 101 | Vortical Flow Lab | Todd Lowe, 1-7650, kelowe@vt.edu | Portable Laser Doppler Velocimetry System |
| Norris 5 | Hydro-Elasticity Lab | Christine Gilbert, 1-9428, cikeda@vt.edu | Tow Tank Carriage
Tow Tank VPMM
Water Tank
Slamming Tank |
| Goodwin Hall 140 | Showcase Undergraduate Lab | Aurelien Borgoltz, 1-1959, aborgolt@vt.edu | Open Jet Wind Tunnel
3D printer
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| AEDL | AOE Machine Shop | James Lambert, 1-6752, jalamber@vt.edu | |
| Kentland Farm, Whitehorne Rd. | Kentland Experimental Aerial Systems Laboratory | Craig Woolsey, 1-8817, cwoolsey@vt.edu | |
