Engineering Fabrication Laboratory and Machine Shop
Facilities
To support student projects and faculty research in mechanical engineering and electrical engineering, the college has a fabrication laboratory and machine shop in RBN 1020 and RBN 1025 occupying 3,000 square feet total.
The Machine Shop includes the following equipment:
- Atrump vertical mill and Atrump engine lathe
- Smithy 10x34 CNC Mill (Smithy)
- Wilton drill press
- Table saw, chop saw, horizontal band saw, and contour band saw
- Desktop CNC Lathe (ProLight 3000)
- Desktop CNC Mill (MaxNC)
- Grinders, buffers and disk and belt sander
- Tool sharpening grinder
- Sheet metal shear and brake
- Cyclone bead blasting system
- Enerpac hydraulic press
- Hydraulic tubing and pipe bender
- Folding floor crane with a capacity of one metric ton
- Parts washer
- 2 ton powered overhead hoist
A welding cell is housed in the Machine Shop with the following equipment:
- MIG welder
- Combined TIG and stick welder
- Plasma cutter portable
- CNC Plasma cutter with cylinder capabilities (48”x96”)
- Heat treatment furnace
- Surface grinder
- Oxyacetylene cutting and welding torch
- Downdraft welding platen
- Melting furnace (3000°C)
The Fabrication Lab includes the following equipment:
- Raise 3D Printer Pro-2 (12”x12”x24”) 2 units• Qidi 3D Printer (10”10”x10”) 4 units
- BOB-CAD CAD/CAM Software
- Rapid Prototyping System (JP System 5)
- Injection and Blow Molding Machine (Amatrol)
- Vacuum Forming Machine (Formech)
- Laboratory Press with Heated Platens (Carver)
- Robotics Five-Axis Robot with Servo Gripper (CRS)
- Photolithography Printed Circuit Board Fabrication Kit (Datek)
- Full Spectrum Laser cutting System (48”x36”)
- 5 Drawer rolling tool cabinet equipped with power and hand tools.
Mr. Edward Farina is the staff member responsible for the Fabrication Laboratory and Machine Shop.