Texas A&M University
Engineering Innovation Center
Location: Dwight Look College of Engineering
Mission: “Creativity is accelerated through a combination of imagination, ability, space, tools, and materials. It is enhanced by having a place where ideas can be tested, refined, and tested again as rapidly as possible. Having the right tools and materials readily available allows students to build amazing creations that expand the realms of possibility.
Welcome to the Engineering Innovation Center (EIC)! It is an open space where engineering students have access to state-of-the-art prototyping tools, equipment, material and support staff. Through partnerships with industry and non-profit sponsors, the EIC is an environment where concepts become solutions to real world problems and student teams come together to build new prototypes, acquire new skills, and develop new relationships. The Engineering Innovation Center is supported with Differential Tuition funds and it is open to engineering undergraduate students only.”
Materials and Resources:
Prototyping & Design Workspace
- 7,000 sq. ft. with 53 work benches and 42 storage units
- ECEN Senior Design
- Lecture Area 2
- Open Design Studio
- Computer Kiosks
Fabrication Center
- 6,600 sq. ft. facility with supervised access
- Automated CNC
- 3D Printing (fact sheet) & Circuit Board
- Laser Cutter
- Student Project Work Area
- Woodworking
- Manual Machine Shop
- Metalworking
- Welding
- Dirty Lab
Rapid Prototyping includes…
- Stratasys OBJET 24
- Stratasys EDEN 260V
Electronic Circuit Board Shop includes…
- LPKF ProtoMat S103
- LPKF ProtoMat S63
- LPKF mini contact cladding system
Advanced Engineering Analysis Lab, Conference Rooms, Digital Video Recording Room
- 12 high end workstations, 32 GB
- Green screen matting
- 60″ LED screen
- Digital Audio and Visual Recording equipment
Benefits to Students:
- Applying your engineering skills to solve real engineering design problems
- Collaborating with students from other disciplines on team design projects
- Interacting with industry professionals
- Gaining valuable communications skills for your professional career
- Request forms to access facilities, materials and equipment
Student Programs:
Engineering Project Showcase: This premiere event features the work developed by approximately 600 engineering students. These include departmental capstone design and multidisciplinary team projects of all undergraduate levels and faculty representation from each engineering department.
Pop-Up Classes: These classes are not for credit but allow a student to develop useful engineering skills through a wide-variety of topics such as LabView basics, microcontrolling, shop safety, and even video production!
- NON CREDIT BEARING COURSES
- Class topics include:
Aggies Invent: Engineering Academic and Student Affairs (EASA) will host the event to promotes innovation among our students. A series of 48-hour hardware Make-a-Thon events will be offered in the EIC throughout the year.
- The end goal is to enable students to push their innovation/creativity, compete for the best design, gain practice with rapid prototyping tools, and encourage the best teams to enter national/international competitions with their designs. At the end of the 48-hour event, student teams have developed a product / solution and are encouraged to pursue that further and explore commercialization.
Design Competitions: Design competitions provide students with great opportunities to apply their engineering skills in solving real-world problems as part of a multidisciplinary team, while competing with the best teams across the nation.
Floor Plan:
