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The Computer Labs aim to provide basic, functional computer services for the users. They provide an environment where users may get support and assistance with computer related issues. They are managed by well competent technicians to ensure that they are working properly.
Free Access Labs in HCT are open labs where students can use a computer to work on their assignments, course projects, research, and other educational activities. Educational software required in courses as well as internet connectivity are available in the laboratories. Each Free Access Lab is being managed by a Free Access Supervisor from CSS.
The Physics Section of the Department of Applied Sciences currently has 2 laboratory rooms, M-206 and M-209, a preparation room, M-208, and a stock room to house the radioactive sources. These rooms serve as the learning threshold for Engineering, Science, and School Diploma students. All of the above mentioned rooms are located at the second floor of the Science building.
The laboratory seeks to help students develop a better understanding of physics. Laboratory experience must be a part of education of Engineering, Science, and School Diploma students. Most attention is paid to idealized situations. Consequently physics students should be able to: design experiments, observe and measure real phenomena, organize, display, and critically analyze data, analyze sources or error and determine uncertainties in measurement, draw inferences from observations and data, and communicate results, including suggested ways to improve experiments and proposed questions for further studies.
Physics laboratory experience is in helping students understand the topics being considered. Thus it is valuable to ask students to write informally about what they have done, observed, and concluded as well as for them to keep well-organized laboratory. The intention of the laboratory was to provide students with a laboratory with a purpose ... just a purpose, and it is hoped that the purpose is clear enough and detailed enough that students can be freed up from a lengthy list of procedural directions in order to spend their time thinking about the question which is presented in the Purpose.
The Biology Section of the Department of Applied Sciences currently has three laboratories that support the development of learning and discovery for Science students every semester. The three laboratories – M102, M303 and M305 – are suitably located on the ground and second floors of the Science Building.
Students from all levels perform experiments in the Biology laboratory to validate and reinforce various Biology principles taught in the theory classes. This also provides the opportunity for the students to operate different laboratory equipment, guided by the correct execution of laboratory techniques, and most importantly, implement laboratory safety awareness. Moreover, the laboratories cultivate, develop and enhance the students’ analytical skills and creative thinking, which are indispensable attributes when students begin to work on their respective projects. All of these are undertaken under the supervision of qualified Lecturers with the assistance of competent Laboratory Technicians.
The Chemistry Section of the Department of Applied Sciences currently has five laboratories serving as venues for learning and discovery for 2,000 Engineering and Science students every semester. The five labs – M104, M106, M108, M142, and M144 – are conveniently located at the ground floor of the Science Building.
Certificate level and lab school students conduct experiments in these labs to confirm and reinforce basic chemistry principles taught in the theory classes. In the hands-on learning process, students get to operate laboratory equipment, guided in the correct execution of laboratory techniques, and most importantly imbibe lab safety awareness.
Diploma, Higher Diploma, and B. Tech. students probe and explore higher chemistry courses in these labs. Under the tutelage of highly qualified Lecturers and with the assistance of able Laboratory Technicians, students unravel the abstractions of organic chemistry, analytical chemistry, environmental chemistry, and physical chemistry. The learning paradigm fosters development of analytical skills and independent thinking which are indispensable attributes when students begin to work on their respective projects.
The Section has dedicated one of the five Chemistry labs - M104 - as its Instrumentation Lab. Said lab is equipped with a gas chromatograph, UV/Visible spectrophotometers, flame photometers, colorimeters, polarimeters, conductivity meters, and calorimeters.
Recently, the Chemistry Section acquired a High Performance Liquid Chromatograph (HPLC), an Atomic Absorption Spectrometer (AAS), and a Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrophotometer (FTIR). All of these equipment are stationed in M104.
With the acquisition of additional state of the art equipment, students are now presented with broader options for projects involving qualitative and quantitative characterization of matter. Students are now more encouraged to venture into projects involving reaction mechanism elucidation and isolation and characterization of natural products.
With labs provided with competent Staff and high-end laboratory resources, HCT can now look forward to its students presenting papers in scientific fora or having their projects published in reputable scientific journals. The available resources will also prove to be valuable tools in the college’s vision to encourage the pursuit of research among its academic staff.
Applied Mechanics Lab is equipped with modern technology equipments which are very easy to understand. All the equipments are prototype model of the realistic tests. This helps the students to easily operate the equipments in learning process and gain the knowledge which they can implement in their future career. They can acquire the knowledge after studying the theory based on how these experiments are going to help them.
In this lab, students can perform the tests of :
1) Shear force
2) Bending Moment
3) Friction on Inclined Plane
4) Rolling Disc on Inclined Plane
5) Resultant of Concurrent Forces
6) Equilibrium of Forces on a Jib Crane
7) Young’s Modulus
Equipments Available in this Lab :
Shear Force Apparatus
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Bending Moment Apparatus
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Apparatus for Friction On Inclined Plane
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Forces Apparatus
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Apparatus of Static Experiments
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Tensometer
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Courses related to this Lab:
1) Applied Mechanics (Civil Engineering and Architecture students at Diploma Level)
2) Mechanics of Materials (Civil Engineering specialization at Diploma Level)
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The Material Testing Lab is one of the practical laboratories in Civil and Architectural Engineering Section. It is well equipped to perform all experiments on building materials like concrete, steel, bricks, wood, tiles etc. These experiments will enhance students’ knowledge and skills in testing to know the quality of the building materials.
Laboratory Equipments :
1) Universal testing machine
2) Impact testing machine
3) Combine hardness
4) Rockwell hardness machine
5) Universal testing machine for Plastics
Practical Experiments Done in this Lab:
1) Compression strength of various building materials
2) Tensile Strength of Steel
3) Sieve Analysis of aggregates
4) Silt Tests
5) Tests to find Density, Porosity and Absorption capacity of materials
Courses related to this Lab: :
1) Materials and Methods of Construction I--Civil Engineering and Architecture students at Diploma level
2) Materials and Methods of Construction II— Civil Engineering and Architecture students at Higher Diploma Level
3)Project Work for Civil Engineering Students in Diploma, Higher Diploma and B. Tech Level.
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Soil Mechanics Laboratory is one of the practical laboratories in Civil and Architectural Engineering Section. This laboratory is equipped with modern facilities and equipments for soil experiments and soil investigation. Defined set of procedures in testing of soil are used to enhance student’s knowledge and skills in determining the different properties of soil and application in civil engineering field.
Laboratory Equipments :
1) Drying Oven
2) California Bearing Ratio Testing Machine
3) Tri-axial Testing Machine
4) Automatic Soil Compactor
5) Semi-Automatic Soil Cone Penetrometer
6) Soil Penetrometer
7) Sets of Test Sieves
8) Mechanical Sieve Shaker
9) Electronic Balance
10) Water Bath
11) pH meter
12) other small apparatus and accessories
Practical Experiments Done in this Lab:
1) Particle Size Analysis
2) Plasticity Index Determination
3) Maximum Dry Density Test
4) In-Situ Density Test
5) Particle Density Test
Courses related to this Lab:
1) Foundation Engineering (Baccalaureate Level in Civil Engineering Specialization)
2) Geotechnical Engineering (Higher Diploma Level in Civil Engineering Specialization)
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The Structural Mechanics laboratory is one of the latest additions to the Civil and Architectural Engineering section. It is intended to enhance students understanding of Theory of Structures as well as well as Applied Mechanics. The laboratory features at least 27 different experimental set ups devised to illustrate various items of structural theory and applied mechanics. Most of these experimental set ups are designed to exaggerate the behavior of real structures and structural members enabling the students to compare various theory with measured results. The laboratory also features a multi-function digital interface device (HDA200 Interface) which is designed to function with many of the experiments. This would allow the students to view forces, strains, deflections and angular movements from experiments.
Courses related to this Lab: :
1) Theory of Structures 1 (offered to Civil Engineering and Architectural Engineering students at Diploma level)
2) Theory of Structures 2 (offered to Civil Engineering students at Higher Diploma level)
3) Applied Mechanics (offered to Civil Engineering and Architectural Engineering students at Diploma level)
Macintosh Lab is intended for Photography students. Adobe's benchmark software, PHOTOSHOP is taught in "MAC-LAB". It is an Apple Macintosh computer lab which allots one computer per student. The computers do not use the Windows operating system or software and comprises of 20 inch Apple Imacs.
Pharmacy Department is currently maintaining 4 labs namely:
(1) PHL1 - Laboratory for Pharmacy Practice & Pharmaceutical Chemistry courses. The practicals of pharmacy practice i.e. preparation of various pharmaceutical dosage forms are conducted in this lab. Similarly, the quality control practicals for these dosage forms and the other practicals for pharm. chemistry and biochemsitry are performed in this lab. This lab contains the necessary equipments needed to conduct these practicals.
(2) PHL2 - Laboratory for Pharmacology & Pharmacognosy courses. Pharmacology practicals i.e. experiments on animal and testing the drug effects are done in this lab. The lab is also used to conduct the practicals for the natural products from the medicinal plants course. This lab contains the necessary equipments needed to conduct these practicals.
(3) PHL3 - Microbiology Laboratory. Microbiology practicals are conducted in this lab which involves the study of various microorganisms and infections produced by them. This lab contains the necessary equipments needed to conduct these practicals.
(4) Multimedia Laboratory. This is the computer lab which has free access to the students to use the internet and e learning facilities.
Fashion Design Department has workshops intended for Modelism and Stylism students. One workshop is for modelism where students can sew thier garments and do the pattern drafting while the other workshop is for stylism where students do thier fashion creations and projects.
The Self-Access Centre, or the SAC, as the name suggests, is a place where students are free to access, i.e., to choose and use, learning resources according to their individual needs and interests. In other words, it is a place where students work independently in order to improve their English language proficiency. For more details, visit the English Language Centre (ELC) webpage.
The College has three multimedia computer labs that have a variety of multimedia learning material designed to promote or encourage interactive learning. Each lab is equipped with 25 – 30 workstations and a teacher control station that allows teachers to manipulate and monitor various activities. For more info, visit the English Language Centre (ELC) webpage.
HCT Canteen is located at the Old Bldg. and a cafeteria (for girls) at the New Bldg. The canteen serves to take care of the health and well - being of the staff and students by implementing strict policy on cleanliness, menu selection and food handling practices.