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17-2141.00 — Mechanical Engineers

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Tools

Accelerometers
Acoustic sensors
  • Acoustic emission AE sensors
Air compressors
Cold forming presses
  • Fused deposition modeling machines
  • Rapid thermal processing systems
Coordinate measuring machines CMM
  • Optical laser scanners
Dynamometers
Fatigue testers
  • Servo-hydraulic material testing machines
Fiber sensors
  • Optical sensors
Flow transmitters
  • Subsonic wind tunnels
  • Supersonic wind tunnels
Flowmeters
  • Digital particle image velocimeters
  • Laser Doppler anemometers
  • Laser Doppler velocimeters LDV
  • Pitot tubes
Force or torque sensors
  • Force transducers
  • Torque transducers
Grinding or polishing machines
  • Chemical-mechanical polishing equipment
Hardness testers
  • Nano indentation systems
Heat exchangers
High voltage cable detection
  • Contact testers
Infrared imagers
  • Infrared thermography cameras
Infrared spectrometers
  • Cryogenic apparatus
Interferometers
  • Interferometric microscopes
  • Spectrum analyzers
Machine mounts or vibration isolators
  • Vibration control systems
  • Vibration isolators
Medical computed tomography CT or CAT complete stationery unit installations
  • Computed tomography CT systems
Microcontrollers
  • Programmable logic controllers PLC
Multimeters
Oscilloscopes
Personal computers
Photoelastic testing instruments
  • Photoelastic testing machines
Plotter printers
  • Multi-pen plotters
Programmable tube furnaces
  • Vapor deposition tube furnaces
Proximity sensors
  • Position transducers
  • Radio frequency sensors
Roughness measuring instruments
  • Stylus profilometers
  • Surface profilometers
Scanners
  • Laser digitizers
Scanning electron microscopes
Scanning probe microscopes
  • Scanning tunneling microscopes
Semiconductor process systems
  • Aligners
  • Anodic wafer bonding systems
  • Contact lithography equipment
  • Deep reactive ion etchers DRIE
  • Evaporation systems
  • Flip-chip wafer bonding systems
  • Plasma etchers
  • Precision positioning tables
  • Projection lithography equipment
  • Spin-coaters
  • Sputtering systems
  • Wafer bonding systems
  • Wafer dicing saws
  • Wire bonders
Signal generators
  • Function generators
  • Pattern generators
Spectrometers
  • Fluorescence spectrometers
Speed sensors
  • Velocity transducers
Step drive or stepper drive or step indexer
  • Steppers
Strain gauges
  • Dynamic strain indicators
Thickness measuring devices
  • Ellipsometers
Torque converters
  • Torsional converters
Vibration testers
Video editors
  • Video editing systems
Voltage comparator integrated circuits
  • Analog to digital converters
  • Digital to analog converters
Wire cathode electrode discharge machine
  • Wire electrical discharge machines
X ray radiography examination equipment
  • X ray radiographic systems
  • X ray tubes

Technology

Analytical or scientific software
  • Accelerated life testing software
  • ANSYS software
  • Blue Ridge Numerics CFDesign
  • Computational fluid dynamics CFD software
  • Data acquisition software
  • Design of experiments DOE software
  • Failure mode and effects analysis FMEA software
  • Finite element method FEM software
  • Grid generation software
  • Life cycle cost software
  • MAYA Nastran
  • Mesh generation software
  • Modal analysis software
  • Motion analysis software
  • Reliability analysis software
  • Reliasoft Alta 6 Pro
  • ReliaSoft BlockSim
  • ReliaSoft Weibull++ 6
  • Sigmetrix CETOL 6 Sigma
  • Statistical energy analysis SEA software
  • Statistical software
  • The Mathworks MATLAB
Computer aided design CAD software
  • Autodesk AutoCAD software
  • COSMOSWorks software
  • Failure assessment software
  • InnovMetric PolyWorks
  • Intergraph Plant Design System PDS
  • Lambda Research OSLO
  • Mathsoft Mathcad
  • Metrix Imageware Surfacer
  • Optical analysis software
  • PTC Pro/ENGINEER software
  • PTC Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire
  • PTC Pro/Sheetmetal
  • Reverse engineering software
  • SolidWorks CAD software
  • UGS I-DEAS
  • Zeemax software
Computer aided manufacturing CAM software
  • Rapid prototyping software
Data base user interface and query software
  • Microsoft Access
Development environment software
  • Hewlett-Packard HP Graphics Language HPGL
  • Ladder Logic
  • Microsoft Visual Basic
  • MUMPS M
  • National Instruments LabVIEW
  • Rockwell Software
Financial analysis software
  • Cost estimation software
Industrial control software
  • Computer numerical control CNC software
  • Human machine interface HMI software
Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software
  • Bill of materials software
Object or component oriented development software
  • C++
  • G-code
Presentation software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
Project management software
  • Microsoft Project
Spreadsheet software
  • Microsoft Excel
Video creation and editing software
  • Video analysis software
Word processing software
  • Microsoft Word

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