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The College of Environmental Design’s cutting-edge maker spaces and resources — Fabrication Shop, Digital Fabrication Lab, and Materials Store — offer limitless opportunity for students to craft, model, and actualize their studio work.

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Fabrication Shop

a woodworking shop with many wood pieces

The 3,600-square-foot fabrication shop is housed in an open-plan space with soaring windows. It serves the needs of students requiring the modeling of three-dimensional designs and features tools for working wood, metal, concrete, and other materials. 

The Fabrication Shop is a 3,600 square foot, open plan industrial wood shop and metal shop, walk-in spray booth, and an outdoor shop yard. The wood shop portion has equipment for cutting and milling lumber while the metals portion has equipment for cutting, bending, and welding metal. Students use this space to build models, experiment with new building materials and methods, and process materials so they can be used in our Digital Fabrication Lab. Students are supervised and supported by professional staff, 40 hours a week, for the CED related curricular work.

Digital Fabrication Lab

CNC
Photo by Mark Cavagnero.

The Digital Fabrication Lab allows CED to bring the best digital facilities to our students and faculty. The 1,500-square-foot lab houses a variety of 2D and 3D digitally controlled equipment. The lab exclusively serves students enrolled and or taking courses in the College of Environmental Design.

Materials Store

The Digital Fabrication Lab is a 1,500 square foot lab that is home for our laser cutters, 3D printers, and CNC machines. Here, students get the opportunity for hands-on experience operating our machines with the support of professional staff. Students can start with staff consultations to preparing their digital models to cutting or printing their parts on our machines. The seven laser cutters, twenty 3D printers, ShopSabre CNC, and Zund cutting system supports both undergraduates and graduates enrolled in the CED.

Allows CED to bring the best digital facilities to our students and faculty. The 1,500-square-foot lab houses a variety of 2D and 3D digitally controlled equipment. The lab exclusively serves students enrolled and or taking courses in the College of Environmental Design.

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  • Materials Available
A student working in CED's Fabrication Lab
Professor and student in wood fabrication shop
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Staff

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    Semar Prom
    Director of Fabrication Services
  • Liz Caputo
    Liz Caputo
    Fabrication Specialist
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    Paige Plander
    Fabrication Specialist
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    L M deLeon
    Fabrication Specialist

The Digital Fabrication Lab was funded in part from a bequest from Professor Emeritus Vernon DeMars (BA 1931) and made possible by in-kind donations of design and construction expertise by alum Mark Cavagnero, of Mark Cavagnero Associates Architects, and Tom Mead, formerly of WebCor Builders.

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