Author: Zachary T Rodimel

Advanced Manufacturing Skills at Bechtel Center

See students design, create and innovate at Bechtel Innovation Design Center and hear from Haas Automation about the students, skill sets and technologies that lead to success in advanced manufacturing careers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UwBL5lnYBA

Bechtel student employees demonstrate laser engraving skills on steel rails

In 2017, long-buried and unused steel railroad tracks were unearthed during West Lafayette’s State Street Renovation Project. Michael B. Cline, Purdue’s senior vice president for administrative operations, oversaw the State Street Redevelopment Project. To preserve the historic artifacts, he had...

Bechtel center provides access to industrial tools for student innovators

Let’s face it. When you need to slice through metal, a high-powered waterjet is almost never handy. However, the Bechtel Innovation Design Center (Bechtel) has changed that for the innovative students of Purdue University. Bechtel is a makerspace on...

Bechtel center transforming how students create, learn

Students, faculty and staff have been settling in to the Bechtel Innovation Design Center (BIDC), a state-of-the-art collaborative learning facility which opened in September 2017. “The Bechtel IDC is an outgrowth of the need for student project space on...