Chevron Corporation has been working with California State University Bakersfield for 30 years, claiming donations to the university totaling $15 million over those years of collaboration. On Monday, July 24, Chevron, joined by students and school officials, held a press conference at CSUB to announce the creation of the Chevron Maker Space, a new campus facility intended to allow engineering students to conduct work on big projects.
Josue Estrada is an engineering major at CSUB, and he works at the Fab Lab, another on-campus engineering lab funded by Chevron in 2014.
“I think it’s an amazing opportunity to have the Maker Space here just because normally, we do have to borrow items or go towards the art department area, which is quite a bit of a walk away from the campus,” said Estrada.
There is currently no room on campus for this essential part of an engineering student’s education,…