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In the engineering faculty at my university there's actually a machine shop with people of various specialities. If you go there you can get things made as long
by tjl 10y ago
In the engineering faculty at my university there's actually a machine shop with people of various specialities. If you go there you can get things made as long as you have a CAD drawing for them to work from. They'll also point out issues in the drawing if they see them.
We also had a student machine shop where students could work and there was a technician on hand to give advice (and prevent you from doing something stupid).
- michaelt 10y agoHaving machinists in an engineering school makes sense from an undergraduate education perspective; for certain types of engineering, designing something with CAD and having a machinist make a prototype is a core part of the work students are being trained to do. I assume getting custom glass blown isn't a core requirement of the chemistry curriculum, or a very common thing for working chemists to be doing.