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- Hello, my name is Kevin Pierson.
I'm the senior lab manager at the University
of Dayton School of Engineering Makerspace.
The Makerspace is intended to give faculty, staff
and students a place to work on both personal projects
and school projects, as well as perform research activities
and even work on and small business ideas and projects.
Before students can access the wood shop
we do require them to take a safety training.
Most engineering students will take this training
during their engineering innovations class.
During that class, they will cut out
the university's athletic logo
out of a six inch by six inch,
half inch thick piece of plywood.
Once the students have completed this training
they are able to use the Makerspace
during our open hours, which we are typically
open six days a week to give students plenty
of time to access the Makerspace.
In the wood shop, we have a variety of different tools
including bandsaws, sanding stations, drill presses,
routing tables, CNC routers, our table saw,
a panel saw, a miter saw and a planer.
To demonstrate our equipment,
we are going to show you how our bandsaws operate.
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Here's a demonstration of our sanding station.
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This is how the drill press operates.
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Now we're gonna put a decorative edge on the piece of wood
using our router table.
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This piece of equipment is our CNC router.
It is a computer controlled router that we will be cutting
out a noble with.
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This is a demonstration of our saw stop table saw.
(saw buzzing)
Here, we're gonna be cutting a 45 degree angle
on the miter saw.
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The University of Dayton School of Engineering
Makerspace has a wide variety
of 3D printers available for students to use.
Some of our most used printers are
our FLSUN QQS Delta style printers
that are great at printing wing profiles.
One of the really fun projects we do in the School
of Engineering is our students design different style
of wing profiles.
We print them on our Delta style printers
and then the students are able to take 'em to the other end
of the basement, where we have our wind tunnel
and they can measure the aerodynamic response
of their design part.
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In addition to the wood shop and the 3D printing areas,
we also have a fully featured metal shop.
In the metal shop we have bandsaws, sanding stations,
drill presses, vertical mills, lathes,
and a variety of grinders.
We also have a welding booth that includes
TIG welding, MIG welding, and plasma cutting.
Now we're gonna be using our three axis vertical mill
to trim a work piece down to the desired size.
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Thank you for taking the time to take this tour
with us today.
I hope it was very informative.
Please feel free to stop down and see us in the basement
of Kettering labs in room KL 23, whenever you're available.
Thank you.
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- My name is is Henry Hart.
I'm a Makerspace facilitator down here in the Makerspace.
I've worked here for about four years.
I've loved every experience that I've ever had
in the Makerspace.
Some of my favorite projects that I've worked
on down here is I made a pretty big coffee table
and I learned a lot through that project.
Just some stuff that I could do better for the time
while also improving the design that I currently had
and already made.
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