University officials say the $25 million, 48,000-sf building hosts the teaching and research laboratories of 17 faculty members, and there is still space for four more.
About 100 graduate research assistants will work in MERL, along with an intermittent flow of undergraduate mechanical engineering students participating in a number of project-oriented courses.
Some of the courses will use modern teaching laboratories in internal combustion engines and other energy conversion systems.
"We want every undergraduate (mechanical engineer) to have an opportunity for a research experience in engineering,'' says Ronald Hanson, chairman of Stanford's Mechanical Engineering Department.
The laboratory was built to meet the special needs of mechanical engineers and students are already busy with hands-on research, according to the university.
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