Mechanical Engineering Tour

Hi, I'm Charlie Murphy. I'm a junior Mechanical Engineering major here at Alfred University. I also have minors in renewable energy engineering and business administration. I'd like to welcome to our step lab. This is a student engineering projects laboratory. That's a bit of a misnomer, because we welcome students from all majors here. We get everyone from art majors to business majors. Everyone's welcome down here. If you want to do any sort of woodworking, metalworking, we have all sorts of welders machine shop equipment, and we'd like to get you trained here safely so you can go out in the real world and use that in your real world applications after you graduate. So why don't we have downstairs? All right, welcome downstairs, I'm standing in front of the Saxon Racing Bay. This is where we house our SAE Baja car, we work on everything. And this is where we also house, our snowmobile. And also we have our battery powered vehicle down here part of the renewable energy engineering program. Alright, so this is a student machine shop, you can come down here at anytime and get trained by our technician and machinists Jim Miles, he's the one that's in charge of the lab down here and making sure everyone uses everything safely. So we have our lathe, we have our mill, and we have a plethora of metalworking equipment over here that you can use at any time to work on personal projects or for your major. Alright, so this part of the lab is our welding area. We have our frame for the SAE Baja that's going to competition this year. Behind us, we have our different welders and you can get trained again by the different students out here that are experienced in welding. And again, we focus on safety, making sure everyone knows what they're doing, and putting out good products so you can actually work on projects like this. Alright, welcome to the Arrow Saxons Bay of the step lab. This is where the Design, Build, Fly team designs, builds and prepares for competition for all their aircraft. Alright, so the last place that I want to show you down here in the step lab is our 3D printing room. We have two MakerBot 3d printers here we're hoping to add more soon. My favorite is [inaudible]. You can print parts of the 18 inches tall. It's really cool to get some of those larger parts and use it for prototyping. So this is actually part two our SAE Baja car-- going into competition this year. It's really cool if you have the ability to 3D print things like this, and see if they're tested before we send out CAD files, and have the manufacturers, will manufacture them here on campus, which is really an awesome part to have the rapid prototyping huge assets we have in university.