US FabLab Network
About
The United States Fab Lab Network was formed in November of 2009 at Neil Gershenfeld’s suggestion. It is the first organization of its kind to promote digital fabrication laboratories in the region’s educational institutions.
The purpose of the USFLN is to encourage and publicize Fab Labs for academic, business, and technological innovation. In the spirit of MIT’s Center for Bits & Atoms and its Fab Lab models, the USFLN promotes no- or low-cost sharing of information, technology, collaborative projects, and applied research.
Membership is open to virtually anyone and any type of organization that subscribes to the principles of the Fab Charter and the USFLN charter. Members may include registered (full- and part-time) students, other individuals, businesses, academic and other public and private institutions, and such entities as the USFLN may determine by due process.
Fab Labs show strong promise for engaging students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) concepts and for developing 21st-century skills needed for the global economy. Therefore, the goal of the USFLN is to improve education in applied technology at the regional and national levels. It will address this goal by helping to integrate Fab Labs into P-20 educational curricula as a “value-added” enhancement of instruction, as a resource for local business, and as a testing ground for research-oriented projects to replicate and remodel Fab Lab learning.
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Midwest Digital Fabrication Partnership
Two community colleges and a university are forming a Midwest Digital Fabrication Partnership (MDFP). The MDFP seeks to integrate Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)-based Digital Fabrication capabilities and resources into student learning experiences at the undergraduate levels of higher education. The major goals of the project are to: 1) integrate Digital Fabrication Laboratories into selected Product Realization courses to provide enhanced, hands-on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) learning experiences; 2) assess the ability of Digital Fabrication Laboratory experiences to enhance student STEM competencies and attitudes; and 3) evaluate Digital Fabrication Laboratories as a STEM recruitment vehicle. This initiative also integrates program disciplines with Digital Fabrication orientation through development of articulation agreements between the three colleges. A cross-disciplinary Fab Lab project team is being established utilizing staff and experts from the three colleges in the Mechanical Design, Applied Engineering Technology, Manufacturing Technologies, Information Technology, and Electrical-Electronics based programs. The team is identifying selected courses in their respective programs that have Digital Fabrication relevance for hands-on learning activities. To support this initiative, partner institutions are transforming existing laboratory space into new Digital Fabrication Laboratories with incremental capital equipment investments.