If a student can dream it, they can create it thanks to the Tulane University MakerSpace, a student-run workshop that offers accessibility to laser cutters, 3-D printers and other design tools. The workshop caters to the university’s artists, engineers, craftspersons, makers and kinesthetic learners on the uptown campus.
The equipment is available for academic assignments as well as for extracurricular projects that require mechanical manufacturing to all Tulane students as well as faculty and staff.
Cedric Walker, professor emeritus, spearheaded the establishment of MakerSpace at Tulane alongside colleagues Tim Schuler, senior professor of practice in physics and engineering physics, and John Sullivan, a lab supervisor in biomedical engineering.
“When you come in to the workshop there is no staff and no faculty. Students are in charge.”
Cedric Walker
Walker said that…
