The machine shop is a technical support facility whose primary function is to provide technical assistance to the students, faculty, researchers, and administration.
The shop's duties include manufacturing, updating, and maintaining scientific teaching apparatus for the undergraduate and advanced labs. It is also responsible for contributing to design and construction of state-of-the-art research projects and related equipment for the experimental groups within the department.
The machine shop has a wide assortment of conventional machine tools as well as welding, sheet metal, and woodworking equipment. Its versatile complement of tools and technician skills make it capable of fulfilling almost any manufacturing demands placed upon it by researchers and engineers. Our shop service is available to non-profit organizations at a current rate of $40 per hour. Availability based on shop load. W.U. Physics projects must be given priority.
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The student shop is located in room 103 of Crow Hall. It serves as a facility for making and modifying research projects and classroom demonstration devices and gives students, staff and faculty the ability to make or modify hardware when the main shop is unavailable. Students gain experience in creating and modifying projects in the student shop resulting in more efficient project design concepts and gives a general understanding of the process of hardware and instrument development.
Use of the student shop is limited to those who have completed a training course, or who arrive with sufficient prior training. This training is offered as a course in Mechanical Engineering, MEMS 1001. For those with prior machine shop experience, please contact Todd Hardt to gain access to the shop facilities.
