There are two educational labs in the Department of Biomedical Engineering located in Rhodes Hall. These labs are primarily used for upper-level undergraduate student courses such as Bioinstrumentation, Tissue Mechanics Lab, and the Medical Product Design courses. A brief description of these labs is listed below. 605 Rhodes Laboratory (Bioinstrumentation Laboratory) This laboratory, located in 605 Rhodes, is 568 square feet and includes 18 stations of computerized data acquisition equipment and supporting instrumentation and software. The stations are connected to the college network so that students sign on to the systems through their individual college accounts and save their data in space allocated to them on the college server. A Xerox 6100 color printer hooked to the college network is located in the room. 612 Rhodes Laboratory This laboratory, located in 612 Rhodes, is a 415 square foot wet lab with five large tables of group workspace. Two materials testing systems (Model 100R; TestResources, Inc., Shakopee MN) are located atop a workbench along the north wall. Each system includes an assortment of tensile specimen grips and compressive platens. A torsional testing apparatus can be attached to either machine for specific experiments. A Pentium II computer with 256 MB RAM, 10 GB hard disks, and 19” color monitor is used to drive each system and collect force and displacement data. A HP laserjet 1300n printer is connected to both computers via the local network. UC Libraries Ranked Among Top 50 of ARL Libraries May 17, 2005 - At 47, the University of Cincinnati Libraries are ranked among the top 50 U.S. and Canadian research university libraries, according to the latest report by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). A decade ago, UC's libraries (University Libraries, Medical Center Libraries, and the Law Library) were ranked 58th. "We are very proud to be in the top 50 of this elite group," said Victoria A. Montavon, dean and university librarian.   The ARL considers five key factors in compiling its rankings each year: Total number of volumes held (UC: 3,050,113) Gross volumes added (UC: 87,357) Current serials (UC: 39,787) Total expenditures (UC: $19,502,676) Number of professional and support staff (UC: 168) The annual ARL statistics also measure activity in such service areas as reference, circulation, interlibrary lending, and library presentations. The UC Libraries made a strong showing on all of these fronts in 2003-04. Four other Ohio research libraries are included in the 2003-04 ARL rankings: Ohio State University (21), Ohio University (81), Kent State University (103), and Case Western Reserve University (108). Looking ahead to UC's 2005-06 entry into the Big East conference, ARL peer institutions rank as follows: Pittsburgh (23), Rutgers (29), Connecticut (55), Notre Dame (58), Georgetown (59), Syracuse (84), and Louisville (88). The top five ARL libraries for 2003-04 are Harvard, Yale, Toronto, and University of California - Berkeley and Los Angeles. The Association of Research Libraries was founded in 1932. The University of Cincinnati is one of the founding members of the organization.