USC Viterbi School Undergraduate Fabrication Laboratory
Welcome to the Viterbi School’s new design and fabrication lab for undergraduate students, the Fab Lab. Here, students can create hobby related projects, scale models such as experimental wingtips, and precision components for capstone assignments.
The Fab Lab is located in RRB, Room 114, which is on the north side of the Rapp Engineering Research Building. The laboratory contains a 3-D printer, a computer-controlled 4’ x 8’ router table and scanner, and traditional fabrication equipment including a band saw, a drill press, and a belt sander.
The lab is intended to provide students with the resources they need to make almost any design project a physical reality. The computer-controlled lab equipment can cut fabrication times from weeks to hours.
The Fab-Lab concept of combining high- and low-tech tools for personal fabrication originates at MIT. The USC Fab Lab will hopefully evolve to support multidisciplinary student projects that uniquely engage the Los Angeles community.
