Available Equipment

The Learning Factory is equipped with several workbenches, hand tools, power tools, as well as machining computer hardware/software for students to use for design projects:

3D Printing

Objet 260 Connex
UPrint SE
Dimension 1200sst
MakerBot
Next Engine 3D Laser Scanner

Machining

3-Axis Bridgeport CNC Machining Center (Torq-Cut V22)
Bridgeport Series II milling machine with digital readout (DRO)
Bridgeport EZ-Trak CNC/Manual vertical mill
14" South Bend 1440 lathes with DRO
10" Clausing Colchester 15 lathe with DRO
8" South Bend lathe
Omax Waterjet
Wilton drill press

Sheet Metal Forming

48" shear
Brake
Roller

Stock Cutoff and Grinding

Abrasive cutoff saw
Vertical and horizontal band saws
Wilton belt sander
Pedestal grinder
Bead blaster

Welding

TIG
MIG
Oxyacetylene

Assembly/Test

Hardness tester
Hydraulic press
Arbor press

Computer Hardware

12 desktop PCs/workstations
HP LaserJet printer

Computer Software

SolidWorks
MasterCam
SolidCam
MATLAB/Simulink

small 3D printed replica of Penn State Nittany Lion statue

Fees

About

Our mission is to help bring the real-world into the classroom by providing engineering students with practical hands-on experience through industry-sponsored and client-based capstone design projects. Since its inception, the Learning Factory has completed more than 1,800 projects for more than 500 different sponsors, and nearly 9,000 engineering students at Penn State University Park participated in such a project.