The Exercise Science Teaching Laboratory, housed within the
department of Exercise and Sport Science, is a 600 square-foot facility
designed to enhance the teaching and training of the more clinical/applied
aspects of exercise physiology. It contains a variety of equipment that
would be commonly used in a clinical/corporate wellness setting including
Lange skinfold calipers, Tanita BIA systems, Accusport lactate
analyzer, Parvo
Medics TrueMax 2400 metabolic system, portable field spirometry units, Polar
heart watch monitors, Quinton 710 ECG
system, Monark Cycle
ergometers, Quinton
treadmills, and a Monark arm egometer. (see
Exercise Teaching Gallery)
Applied Physiology Laboratory
The Applied Physiology Laboratory, housed within the Department of Exercise
and Sport Science, is a 6500 square foot facility which is divided into
three areas: metabolic, chemistry, and body composition. The metabolic
area has state-of-the-art equipment for measuring metabolic rate, including
two computerized metabolic systems dedicated to ergometer settings and several portable metabolic systems to gather data in the field. There
are multiple treadmills and cycle ergometers to complete the exercise tests.
An integrated treadmill and
electrocardiogram system (Quinton Q45) exists
for the performance of clinical exercise testing. Other ECG's also
exist within the Lab. A computerized spirometry system allows for
easy measurement of pulmonary functions. The body composition area
has a calibrated scales, statiometer, skinfold calipers, and a computerized
underwater weighing system. A free-standing nitrogen analyzer is
used to determine residual volume for use in underwater weighing.
The chemistry area has centrifuges, ultra-freezers, fluorometer, osmometers, spectrophotometers and an HPLC. A complete Johnson &
Johnson Ektachem DT-60 system to speed analyses of blood chemistries.
In addition, the Lab contains a complete R.I.A. lab for measuring hormones.
Lab personnel have been approved to draw blood. (see
Applied Physiology Gallery)
With regard to computers, the lab has five IBM compatible computers
for data analysis and manuscript preparation. Three other computers
are dedicated to specific equipment. Most data analysis can also
be completed in-house using PC-SAS, SPSS, or STATA. Nutritional analysis
software as well as other physiologic software packages are available for
student use. On-line literature searches are available by direct
network to the Health Sciences Library. In addition, all students
are given email accounts and internet access. Main frame computer
analysis is also available in the lab.
