Offering expert mentorship and advanced facilities for your prototyping and product development projects
Contact the labThe Prototyping and Product Development Core Lab (PCL) provides well-equipped spaces to support fabrication projects ranging from micro sized to complex product development. We offer mentorship, apprenticeship, training and full service expertise in computer aided design and reverse engineering, rapid prototyping, electronics, machining, CNC computer aided programming, scientific glassblowing, welding, woodworking and more.
The Reverse Engineering Lab (REL) provides dimensional, analytical and electrical quality inspections, and is equipped for reverse engineering through three-dimensional positional analysis application.
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The Welding Lab offers expertise in welding stainless and carbon steels, aluminum and various other materials using a variety of equipment, including MIG, TIG, ARC and fiber optic laser.
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The Electronics Fabrication Lab (EFL) provides customized design and prototyping of electronic and mechatronic devices. Our engineers specialize in software development and fabrication of electrical and electronics, such as instrumentation and motion control, data acquisition with system design, image/data analysis, hardware modification/upgrade, circuit design – analog/digital, printed circuit boards and root cause analysis.
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Mechanical design engineering combines an understanding of mechanical design with materials’ properties and manufacturing technologies. Our expertise includes CAD, 3D modeling, additive manufacturing, flow and stress analyses, sheet metal works, motion studies, and much more.
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The Scientific Glassblowing Lab (SGL) specializes in the design, fabrication and repair of all types of scientific glassware. It is equipped to work with both borosilicate and quartz glass, thus covering most requirements of research. Borosilicate glass has a high chemical resistance and excellent thermal capacity. Quartz is superior in purity having excellent optical transmittance in the UV, and can withstand temperatures up to 1,200°C.
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The Central, Harbor, and Innovation Fabrication Labs (CFL, HFL, and IFL, respectively) offer space, equipment and expertise where you can complete the design and fabrication of your mechanical projects.
The CFL is currently where most machining, 3D printing, additive manufacturing, and fabrication work takes place. It is in the process of being converted into a user space for fabrication of prototyping and product development projects.
The IFL provides the most comprehensive space for prototyping projects, which offers a design studio catering to individual projects, as well as group design challenges. For fabrication work, there is a metal and woodworking area featuring small hand tools to large cutting, turning, milling and sanding machines. The rapid prototyping room contains machines and tools for laser and waterjet cutting, 3D printing, screen-printing, vacuum formation, electronics fabrication and characterization, and much more.
The HFL is where the largest CNC manufactured work is processed. It specializes in the cutting of meter-sized sheet materials using laser and waterjet technologies. It is where multi-meter sized milling and turning, large metal bending, and painting/powder coating jobs are completed. The HFL is also host to the current Machinist Development Apprenticeship Program (MDAP).
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