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Preparing metrology equipment
A precision engineering graduate student prepares metrology (the study of measurement) equipment to assess the dynamic contouring capability of a vertical spindle machining center.
This work was performed at the Center for Precision Metrology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, which was originally supported as a National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC). (Year of image: 1999)
Credit: Courtesy of Center for Precision Metrology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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