The Elko Engineering Garage is an open, hands-on makerspace for community collaboration and physical prototyping. All current U of A undergraduate and graduate students and staff are welcome to use this space for personal projects, extracurricular or student club projects, coursework and research projects. The garage refers to users of the space as “makers.” The demographic of makers who use the garage the most comes from the Faculties of Engineering, Medicine & Dentistry and Arts (industrial design). –
To start using the equipment, you first need to complete the orientation modules, which consist of watching videos and completing quizzes. Before you attend your training sessions, you need to create a training account (LMACS), which helps track the equipment for which you have completed orientation and training. After this, you can get started on…