Engineering Teaching Equipment
Practical Teaching Equipment
TecQuipment designs and manufactures market-leading engineering teaching equipment used by universities and colleges around the world.
Giving students at universities, colleges, schools and training centers, real life understanding to match the skills sets required for the engineering labor market. We offer teaching equipment within the areas of:
Aerodynamics
The aerodynamics range is used for the teaching of a vast range of aerodynamic principles, from fundamentals through to advanced theories.Â
Subsonic wind tunnels teach students the basics about lift, drag and pitching moments, plus the high-level topics such as the boundary layer and pressure distribution around models.Â
Aerodynamics Range
Students can also perform wake investigations. Supersonic wind tunnels are for the more advanced teaching of aerodynamic engineering, with experiments that start with nozzle pressure distribution, on to analysis of Mach numbers, and the measurement and visualization of pressure and shock waves using Schlieren apparatus. The comprehensive range means that a product can be found to suit every space, budget and complexity requirement.
The wind tunnels available span a variety of sizes and experimentation capabilities, from bench top models for learning the basics to products requiring large laboratories for more detailed understanding of aerodynamics.
Alternative Energy
The alternative range offers teaching equipment for the core principles different types of alternative energy including solar and wind turbine generated energy.
Alternative Energy Range
Control Engineering
The control engineering range focuses on the teaching of specific control principles relating to static and dynamic systems as well as naturally unstable, non-linear, multi-variable and oscillatory systems.
Control Engineering Range
Electrical Power Systems
The electrical power systems range provides advanced technical teaching and training equipment for all elements of a power system including generation, transformation, transmission, distribution, utilization and protection.
Electrical Power Systems Range
Engineering Science
The engineering science range is a modular system of experimental kits that address the fundamental principles of mechanical engineering including forces and moments; materials testing; vibration, friction and energy; simple machines; and mechanisms.
Engineering Science Range
Engines
The engines range offers teaching equipment for a wide variety of engine specific theory covering internal combustion engines starting with simple four stroke engines, through to gas turbines/turbojets, along with steam engines.
Engines Range
The range meets entry level requirements for the general teaching of mechanical engineering through to addressing the more advanced theories required for final-year students enabling them to meet the learning objectives required for specific industries such as aerospace, automotive and power.
Environmental Control
The environmental control range offers teaching equipment covering the fundamental theories associated with thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and heat transfer. This enables students to understand environmental control in the real industrial and consumer world.
Environmental Control Range
Experiments allow students to comprehend the workings of cooling towers, refrigeration, air conditioning, humidity and solar energy; utilizing psychrometric and P-h charts.
Fluid Mechanics
The fluid mechanics range offers a wide scope of teaching equipment for the delivery of complete courses in fluid dynamics.
In many settings, the modular Digital Hydraulic Bench acts as a base unit, allowing tutors to swap out individually mounted experiment modules on these self-contained benches, reducing lab set-up time, lab space requirements, and cost.
Fluid Mechanics Range
The impressive flow and sediment channels for demonstrating the mechanics of flow also enable the practical teaching and demonstration of phenomena such as critical and sub critical flow, hydraulic jump, and dune formation. There are many ancillaries available for use with the flow channels enabling them to be used as both teaching and research aids.
Within the fluid mechanics range there is equipment for demonstrating Bernoulli’s theorem, the function and dynamics of weirs, pressure and flow measurement, pipe friction and energy loss, and much more.
Materials Testing and Properties
The materials testing and properties products offer a wide range of teaching equipment to demonstrate key materials properties; they cover Hooke’s Law and Young’s modulus associated with elastic properties, and stress/strain analysis. For more advanced learning, experiments available progress to hardness testing, complex analysis of stress and strain, testing specimens to destruction and various apparatus for learning about material fatigue.
Materials Testing Range
Next Generation Structures
The Next Generation structures range consists of teaching equipment for understanding basic structural principles focusing on beams, bridges and cantilevers for students of mechanical, civil and structural engineering.
Next Generation Structures Range
Optical Extensometry
The Optical Extensometry Digital Image Correlation Range is designed to enhance the student learning experience for real-time and post-process measurement and visualisation of deformations, strains and displacements in materials and shapes. Complements the teaching equipment.
Optical Extensometry Range
The solution is offered as DefleX® and is available either as an education licence (DefleX®-EDU) or for grant-funded research purposes (DefleX®-PRO).
Process Control
The process control range offers an extensive range of teaching equipment, from bench-top equipment for demonstrating process control principles, to products using industrial components for realistic vocational training.
Process Control Range
The range provides users with the ability to study PID and programmable logic controllers and process control, both in isolation and in a systems setting. Students can learn about the control of flow, level, temperature and pressure.
Statics Fundamentals
The statics fundamentals range offers teaching equipment for understanding the core principles required for civil and mechanical engineering disciplines.
The range brings theories such as concurrent and non-concurrent coplanar forces, Bow’s notation, equilibrium theory, parabola theory and many more to life.Â
Statics Fundamentals Range
The range consists of a series of modular experiment modules that fit to the essential base unit (Statics Work Panel), which can be mixed and matched to suit teaching requirements.
Theory of Machines
The theory of machines range offers teaching equipment for the basics of machine engineering such as motion, to more advanced studies of free and forced vibration, friction in bearings, geared systems and governors.
Theory of Machines Range
Thermodynamics
The thermodynamics range offers teaching equipment for the illustration of the basic principles of thermodynamics through to complex theories.
Students can learn using practical experiments about the behavior of gases, heat transfer and thermal conductivity, conduction, convection and heat exchange.Â
Thermodynamics Range
They can get hands on to prove theories such as the Antoine equation, Seebeck effect, Lenz and Thomson effects, Carnot cycle and reversible Carnot cycle, Stefan Boltzmann law, Kirchhoff’s law and Lambert’s direction law.
VDAS
Specialist Data Acquisition for TecQuipment Education Equipment
TecQuipment’s in-house developed software, VDAS® (Versatile Data Acquisition System) has been tailored to operate in perfect harmony with the TecQuipment products to maximize learning potential.
The digital system is easy to set-up and use with simple USB connections. It provides real-time data-capture, calculation, charting and data export. In some cases, real-time traces of analogue signals and advanced signal processing are possible.
VDAS Hardware
The hardware comes in three different options.
- VDAS On Board – The hardware is integrated into the teaching product as standard and requires no additional hardware to be purchased. All products with a ‘V’ at the end of the product code have VDAS On Board eg EC1501V.
- VDAS Bench Mounted – The hardware is a separately purchased unit that sits on a bench that can serve many bench-top pieces of VDAS®-compliant equipment in a laboratory.
- VDAS Frame Mounted – The hardware is a separately purchased frame-mounted unit designed to work with larger pieces of equipment.
VDAS Software
Software is available to download free of charge for any unlimited number of users from the ‘downloads’ section of the website. Visit the TecQuipment YouTube channel for videos on how to set up a connection, save and export results and record data.
VDAS e-lab Software
For remote blended learning, TecQuipment offers VDAS e-lab software, which is a flexible and easy to use cloud-based system enabling remote students to interactively engage and participate in laboratory experiments. Learn more about the annual licenses available by click here.
LabView
LabVIEW Virtual Instruments are also available which display data from connected VDAS® compatible products. The results can be developed further by students using LabVIEW software.