Georgia Tech University

The Invention Studio

Mission: “The Invention Studio is student-run design-build-play space open to all Georgia Tech students. It is staffed by the University Lab Instructors, student volunteers who are on hand to train you and help with your projects. Use of the studio is free for all students, faculty and staff of Georgia Tech, regardless of year, major, or prior experience.

To support and foster the demand for creative, self-initiated learning on the Georgia Tech campus, we create environments for students to make their ideas a reality by providing resources for designing, prototyping, and sharing ideas through workshops, vendor networks, experienced guidance, and access to cutting edge machines.”

Functions:

• Create the center for an environment needed to foster student’s designs and innovation.
• Ensure the organization of the studio is self-managing, by creating respective scheduling of monitoring and assigning members to organizing responsibilities.
• Provide resources for students with the means to access machinery and materials as needed.
• The continuous updating of “Makers Monday” to be a stepping stone to educational use of the studio for students.
• Offer more classes, seminars, and workshops to students. Get those learning opportunities advertised campus wide by means of buzz bags, flyers, professors, and departmental communications.
• Expand by way of proposals that achieve success in obtaining equipment needed for the studios, such as, the WaterJet and 3D Printers as well as more space needed to accommodate the demanding need from students.
• Help in whatever capacity possible to ensure the successful construction of the “Burdell Center”. This building will ensure the success of the student design and innovation programs such as the “Makers Resource”.

Capstone Course

• Sponsor proposal for Capstone Design course
  • In the final class for Georgia Tech’s undergraduate mechanical engineering degree, student teams design, build, and test machines to solve real world problems and compete against each other at an end-of-semester “Capstone Design Expo” for cash prizes. Lectures topics include precision machine design, manufacturing and business/entrepreneurial topics.
  • Tackle real world problems
  • Build a machine
  • Lecture
  • Culmination at an Expo

Events

Upcoming events include workshops, speakers, etc.