Makerspace is keeping Chandler-Ulmann Hall’s wood shop and Wilbur Powerhouse design lab open late, and it’s not just engineering students that are flooding their doors.
Makerspace is a club on campus composed of undergraduate volunteers and graduate students paired with Lehigh staff. Its goal is to make a physically safe place on campus for students of all majors to just tinker.
“So often, only the engineering students are the ones venturing into the facilities that Lehigh offers,” said Brian Slocum, the director of all design labs on campus. “And maybe it’s because the tools are scary or the requirements for becoming certified to use the tools are too daunting, or maybe it’s just that no one else thinks they have a reason to be in a wood shop. But making things is fun.”
A new club at Lehigh, Makerspace was founded last…
