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Laboratory Summary
The Instrumentation and Control Department has well equipped laboratories, such as Sensors and Transducers Laboratory, Process Instrumentation, Biomedical Instrumentation, Electronics Instrumentation, Delta V DCS System and Signal Processing Laboratory.
Laboratory Details
| Sr. No. | Laboratory Name | Lab Incharge |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Process Instrumentation Lab | Dr. Vaishali M. Upadhye |
| 2. | Automation Centre | Prof.Manisha Narwane |
| 3. | Embedded System Design Lab | Dr. Atul Joshi |
| 4. | Digital Signal Processing Lab | Dr. Swati P. Madhe |
| 5. | Electronic Instrumentation Lab | Prof.Pratima Kulkarni |
| 6. | Analytical Instrumentation Lab and Dark Room | Prof. Sheetal Katwe |
| 7. | Biomedical Instrumentation Lab | Dr. Nivedita M Daimiwal |
| 8. | Project Engineering and Management Lab Special Facility: Cummins MEMS R & D Centre |
Prof. Yashwant G. Adhav |
| 9. | Control System Lab Special Facility: Virtual Lab Nodal center |
Prof.H.T.Patil Prof. Pratima Kulkarni and |
| 10. | Language Lab | Dr. Revati Shriram |
| 11. | Special Facility: Instrumentation Projects Lab | Dr. Atul K. Joshi |
1. Process Instrumentation Lab
The Process Instrumentation lab is a significant lab of the department. It is utilised for conducting practicals of core subjects of the department. For second year, practicals related to sensors and transducers are covered. The students work on process control equipments in the third year. In the final year, students get hands-on experience of working on pilot plants found in process industries. The lab is equipped with Automation tools like PLC, SCADA and DCS of the make which are popularly used in most of the industries. Building automation setup is a part of this lab. The lab is used by students working on minor and major projects. This lab is equipped with setups supported by major industries like CIL, Emerson, Forbes Marshall and so on. Following are some of the major equipments in the lab.
Level and flow pilot plant, PLC with control panel, Ultrasound Equipment, Flow loop, Steam and Water Analysis System Panel, Distillation Column, Heat Exchanger, Radar tank Level Gauge, Building Automation Setup.
2.Automation Centre
The Automation Center offers hands-on experience with Emerson’s DeltaV DCS, a Distributed Control System widely used in the industry. This lab is a cornerstone for Instrumentation Engineering, as its experiments closely align with real-world industrial applications. Integrated with a pilot plant, it enables students to work on a real-time system, enhancing their practical skills. Third -year students utilize this facility for Industrial Automation Lab sessions and TY students for project work, while workshops are regularly conducted for both in-house and external students.
The Automation Center is equipped with the DeltaV 14.0 Distributed Control System, featuring a Precision 5820XL Tower Dual/Quad Monitor Workstation and three OptiPlex 3050 Small Factor Tower Single Monitor Workstations. The setup includes an MDPLUS DCS controller with 16 analog inputs (HART-supported), 8 analog outputs (HART-supported), 8 discrete inputs, 8 discrete outputs, a two-port H1 Fieldbus card, and a two-port serial communication card.
This lab is supported by Emerson Engineering Export Center
3. Embedded System Design Lab
The laboratory has 24 Computers with Windows OS, 2 network printers, 5 units of Aplab 5 in 1 Test Instrumentation, SST89E516RD kits (10 no.s), AVR8535 kits (10 no.s), various Arduino boards and STM32 boards along with Raspberry Pi IoT kits. Add On boards of ADC, DAC, LCD display, LED display, Keyboards, Stepper motor are also available for use. The softwares in the laboratory are Keil uvision, Microsoft Visual C ++, Python, Microsoft Office, AVR Studio, SinaProg, SST Flash, STM32CubeIDE. The laboratory resources are utilized for courses of F. Y. BTech (Fundamentals of Programming Language), S. Y. BTech (Programming Practice and Microcontroller Techniques), T. Y. B. Tech (Internet of Things and Embedded Product Design), and Projects in Semester I and semester II.
4.Digital Signal Processing
The laboratory has 22 Windows OS based Computers with 2 network printers. All the PCs have an internet connection. Licensed MATLAB is installed on all the PCs.
The laboratory resources are utilized for courses of S. Y. B. Tech, T. Y. B. Tech (Digital Signal Processing Lab), Mini projects and Final Year Projects. This lab is also used for Placement activity in free slots.
5. Electronic Instrumentation Lab
Laboratory Resource Equipments: 5 in 1 test labs, 9 in 1 test labs, Power supplies, signal generators, function generators, distortion meter, universal counter, LCR meter, CROs
Utilization of Laboratories: S.Y. – Linear Integrated Circuits, Electronic Instrumentation and System Design ; T.Y. – Power Electronics and Drives (Program Elective), Mini Projects ; Final Year Projects
6. Analytical Instrumentation Laboratory & Dark Room
Instruments & Equipments: The Laboratory is divided in two part normal laboratory and Dark room, Dark room has Optical test bench with mounts, Optical power meter with 3 photo detectors, Optical fiber test bench, Optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR), Different optical sources, He-Ne lasers, Nd-YAG Laser, Argon laser and AI Laboratory has Analytical Instruments like Spectrophotometer, Spectrofluorophotometer, Flame photometer, Photo colorimeter, Optical densitometer.
This lab is utilized for S.Y. B.Tech, T.Y. B.Tech and Final Year B.Tech students for practicals, projects and system design tutorials.
7. Biomedical Instrumentation Lab
Biomedical Instrumentation lab is equipped with ECG Machine, Blood Pressure Measurement Unit, Bedside Monitor, Electrosurgical Unit Drip Rate Meter, Centrifuge Machine, Blood Cell Counter, Nerve Simulator, Glucometer, Apnea Monitor, Biosignal Test Station, Phonocardiograph, ECG Simulator and Audiometer . Lab is also equipped with advanced instruments like Power lab advance teaching scheme for Biomedical Engineering, EEG Machine(Neurowin), National Instruments NI_Elvis. . This lab is utilized for S.Y. B.Tech, T.Y. B.Tech and Final Year B.Tech students for practicals ,projects and biomedical research.
8. Project Engineering and Management Lab
Total number of workstations are 20. This lab is dedicated to Process Engineering and Management. PEM is a subject where you study all types of documentation required for developing a plant. This plant can be a Sugarcane Industry, Pharmaceutical Industry, etc. The documents we can create are Process Flow Diagram, P&ID, Instrument Index, Specification Form, Loop wiring Diagrams, etc. This lab will give you a detailed idea about all the processes present in This lab will give you a detailed idea about all the processes present in developing a plant.
Special Facility: Cummins MEMS R & D Centre
Total number of workstations are 10. We Have Cummins MEMS ( Micro Electro Mechanical System ) R&D center sponsored by IISC Banglore under the NPMASS programme . This lab is equipped with Comsol Multiphysics software. Comsol Multiphysics is used to simulate micro sensors and actuators in instrumentation and interdisciplinary fields. Lab is used to simulate minor projects of S.Y. B.Tech. and T.Y. B.Tech. students and major projects of final year students.
9. Control System Lab
Control System Lab is equipped with high end Computers, Printer and LCD Projector. The lab has a battery back of @6hrs. All 21 PCs are installed with updated versions of Matlab and Linux. All the PCs have an internet connection. The lab is always occupied with students for their TY and Final Year projects along with various subjects laboratories.
Special facility – Virtual Lab Nodal Center (VLNC) is executed from this lab. It is an Initiative of the Ministry of Education Under the National Mission on Education through ICT (NMEICT). It provides remote-access to Labs in various disciplines of Science and Engineering.
10. Language Lab
Language Lab has 25 Computers and one Network Printer. All the computers are having a ORELL Software. This lab is utilized by F.Y. B.Tech and S.Y. B.Tech students for tutorials and practicals.
11. Special Facility: Instrumentation Projects Lab
The Project Lab. is equipped with CNC milling/drilling machine, Intel core PCs Tektronic DSOs,9-in-1 test labs,Universal calibrators, PCB drilling machine, Temperature controlled soldering stations and de- soldering stations, Presentation projector-tool. The lab is always occupied with students for their TY, Final Year and MTech projects. The lab is also used by the interdisciplinary students for doing projects for competitions like ROBOCON, AeroDesign-Challenge, BAHA, EPICS. The Workshops like Product development , power supply assembling and testing, are conducted in the project lab. The lab is equipped with various advance sensors and systems like optical encoders, Danfoss VFD with motor, PMDC motor with drive, digital dial gauge, proximity switches, linear potentiometric sensors, Universal programmer, in-circuit emulator