The largest student-run makerspace in the country is getting even larger.
The Samuel Ginn College of Engineering will begin construction this spring on a $15 million laboratory designed to foster interdisciplinary collaboration, creativity and industry-relevant research in advanced manufacturing while also expanding the Design and Innovation Center, commonly known as the makerspace.
Geared for high-tech electronics manufacturing, materials testing and advanced manufacturing, the Analytical, Innovation and Manufacturing (AIM) Laboratory will occupy 16,000 unfinished square feet within the plinth beneath the Gavin Garden green space connecting the Brown-Kopel Engineering Student Achievement Center and the Gavin Engineering Research Laboratory. In addition, nearly two-fifths of the facility will be set aside to boost the total footprint of the Design and Innovation Center from…
