Idea Forge
The Idea Forge is a design and innovation facility focused on development. It is a flexible, cross-disciplinary collaborative space where students can imagine, design, create, and test their ideas. Recently renovated, the Idea Forge boasts impressive capabilities with a machine shop, wood shop, digital manufacturing lab, rapid prototyping lab, electronics lab, and finishing room. The Idea Forge is where anyone can come and take their project ideas and turn them into reality. Check out the Idea Forge here.
Machine Shop
Our Machine Shop is capable of making your product a reality. Our skilled shop managers ensure all parts are made properly from conceptualization to fabrication. With six mills, three lathes, and a CNC Hurco we can produce a wide range of products. We have a Welding Shop adjoined with our machine shop allowing us to perform both TIG and MIG welding operations.
Sheppard Electronics Lab
The Sheppard Electronics Lab is the go-to place for all things electronics, from basic electronics to electrical systems, and circuitry design to PCB manufacture. With soldering irons, DAQ equipment, computers, and various workshops, the Sheppard Electronics Lab can help create, test and manufacture your project. Recently added, our Digital Manufacturing Lab allows you to build your own circuit board in house.
Makerspace
The Makerspace has a highly capable woodshop to provide support for many types of projects. With sewing stations and a large range of tools and workshops, the Makerspace has what is needed to get started on prototyping and production.
Rapid Prototyping Lab
Our Rapid Prototyping Lab has what is needed to fit your rapid prototyping requirements. With two tiers of 3D printing, a laser cutter, and a 3D scanner, you have all the tools you need to create various prototypes.
ITLL
With workshops for anything from soldering to 3D printing to machining, the Integrated Teaching & Learning Laboratory (ITLL) is dedicated to a hands on learning and development style of teaching. Its curriculum-driven design supports a variety of learning styles and features first-year design studios, an active learning center, a computer network integrating all experimental equipment throughout two large, open laboratory plazas, fabrication “shacks,” group work areas, and student-centered, highly accessible technology-rich electronics and manufacturing centers.
The ITL Program and Laboratory has received numerous awards, including the prestigious 2008 Bernard M. Gordon Prize Award from the National Academy of Engineering. Check out all the capabilities and information on the ITLL.