Welcome to the Science, Mechanics, & Materials (SiMM) Laboratory

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This web site is provided by TETON, the resident workstation and web server in the lab. The SiMM Lab lies in the western shadow of the formidable Teton mountains (pictured above), this server's namesake.

The SiMM Lab is located in Room 102, of the Idaho Falls Center for Higher Education (IFCHE), a branch of the University of Idaho. IFCHE is funded through a generous grant from Lockheed Martin Idaho Technologies Company (LMITCo.), which is the site contractor for the Idaho National Engineering & Environmental Laboratory (INEEL), a national laboratory and nuclear repository under the auspices of the Department of Energy (DOE).

The SiMM Lab is home to a number of interesting research projects, including:

• Drying of Spent Nuclear Fuel
• Flow Visualization in Internal Cavities - This research is funded under the DOE Environmental Management Science Program
• Freezing Point Determination of Chemical Weapons
• Bicycle Wheel Design

Take a look at the research systems in place in the SiMM Lab and its subsidiary, the Wind & Flow Lab:

• Heating and Vacuum Isolation Chamber with fully automated data acquisition system.
• Low Speed Wind Tunnel
• Sun UltraSPARC II Workstation

Visit the laboratory personnel

• Principal Investigator, John Crepeau, Ph.D., P.E. Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• Patrick V. Rafferty Teton's Unix Sytstem Administrator
• Steve Reese
• Hugh M. McIlroy, Jr.

Teton is , a product of
It was obtained through a grant from Lockheed Martin Idaho Technologies.