The Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering in ATU Galway formally opened its Maker Space, housed in the Engineering Workshop last week. The Maker Space boasts an array of equipment, much of which was funded by the Higher Education 4.0 project, under HCI Pillar 3. This project is designed to encourage innovation and agility as a means of addressing future skill requirements.
The Maker Space is a multi-use, creative educational space which houses a range of additive manufacturing technologies, such as a Laser Cutter, Vacuum Former, along with a bank of 3D Printers – consisting of twelve serviceable Fusion Deposition Modelling and Stereolithography Resin printers. Housed within the same area are a suite of VR goggles for conceptual design, along with a 3D Scanner and Coordinate Measuring Machine which can be used to profile, reverse engineer and accurately precision…
