Engine Dyno Mounts

Christina M PerryNews

Cole Cicora a peer mentor here at the center is helping student Nicola Fava to create Engine Dyno mounts for Purdue Formula SAE. He used the Flow Waterjet available here to cut 4130 steel for his project.

Aluminium Mold Making

Christina M PerryNews

Students use the facility at Bechtel center for various research projects, one such student from the school of chemical engineering used the VF4 CNC milling machine in the manufacturing lab to cut 5 cavity CNC machined aluminum molds. This dye will later be used to cast the test specimen of different polymer materials and will be used to perform mechanical …

Screw Making on CNC Lathe

Christina M PerryNews

Manufacturing a screw out of steel rod as a part of volunteering activity at the Bechtel Center. This activity provides an opportunity for students to interact with Haas Automation’s ST-20 CNC Lathe. The student needs to design the part on Autodesk Fusion 360 and manufacture the part on the lathe machine. This activity helps students to learn how to set …

Lightsaber Part Manual Mill

Christina M PerryNews

Today at the center Michael Kalenty manufactured a part for his lightsaber out of aluminum provided by Arconic , Michael has a plastic lightsaber handle, and wants to manufacture its metallic replica, he used the manual mill to cut out complex geometry with a precision of ten thou of an inch which was made possible with high precision Kennametal tools.

Manufacturing a hand plane tool

Christina M PerryNews

Adam Kures a master’s student at Purdue is fascinated with woodworking. He manufactured a hand plane tool that is used for smoothening the surface of the wood. He used a vertical drill and belt sander machines to manufacture his tool. Now he can use a tool of his own creation to shape wood and create amazing products!

CNC engraving on a steel block

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Engraving a steel block as a part of volunteering activity at the Bechtel Center. This activity provides an opportunity for students to interact with Haas Automation’s VF-2 3-axis CNC milling machine & experience machining operations. It helps students learn how to set up the tools, place stock & see how the machine probes everything for size, faces the top & …

Advanced Manufacturing Skills at Bechtel Center

Zachary T RodimelNews

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.

Bechtel student employees demonstrate laser engraving skills on steel rails

Zachary T RodimelNews

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 as many of the steel rails unearthed as possible and had some of the better preserved rails cut into 4-inch …

Bechtel center provides access to industrial tools for student innovators

Zachary T RodimelNews

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 the Purdue campus that provides students with training and access to high-end equipment with which to build prototypes of their …

Bechtel center transforming how students create, learn

Zachary T RodimelNews

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 campus,” said Matthew Swabey, director of the center. ”It was understood that there was no available [project] space on campus. …