The FFT Analyzer in Mechanical Engineering Education - Article (PDF)

The Department of Mechanical Engineering is one of four departments within the Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton. The undergraduate educational experience emphasizes the application of a wide spectrum of engineering fundamentals. Care has been taken to ensure a balanced integration of theory, design and laboratory practice through the selection and sequencing of courses within the curriculum. All undergraduates take a senior level course on Mechanical Vibrations which covers a wide range of analysis methods for multi-degree of freedom systems along with techniques for vibration control. A four semester course sequence in vibration is offered at the graduate level covering the analysis of continuous systems, noise and vibration control, random vibrations and nonlinear vibrations. The senior year mechanical engineering lab includes three experiments that provide “hands on” experience with the concepts covered in the Mechanical Vibrations course.