The turnout for the open house on 8th February, was beyond our expectations. Over eighty students and faculty showed up. We start regular hours from the coming week, and hope to get a lot of feedback from all of you. Here are some pictures from the event.
The MakerLab is an experiment in bringing together a community of learners who are interested in learning by making. As we open our doors, there is a great opportunity to participate as a group, for a course on creative learning being offered by MIT, online at http://learn.media.mit.edu/index.html. This is a very popular course and current MIT students will be taking this course, along with us. We will get opportunities to learn from the works of Seymour Papert among others, and mostly from each other, and perhaps a lot more about 3D printing and digital making. This will be a live experiment for all of us to see whether an engaged and motivated community can learn effectively around an online course, while 'making' stuff, digital or physical.
When you sign up for the course, use the invite code 10807 , so that they assign all of us to the same group. The signups close on Friday, 8th Feb, so you must signup immediately. The course will have live sessions on dates/times listed on the website( Mondays at 9:00 am, as per information available), but the sessions will be recorded. We plan to meet every Friday at noon, starting February 15th, at the MakerLab, to discuss the weeks readings/projects/assignments.
So, go ahead and signup and remember to use the invite code 10807 and signup immediately.
Great News! The Makerlab has been featured on the cover of the 2013 NMC Horizon Report for Higher Education. The NMC Horizon project is "a decade-long research project designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry in higher education" . It identifies 3D printing as one of key technologies that will impact education in a four to five year horizon. Well we are doing it right now and have set up the first such lab in a business school. The cover photo shows one of our students, looking through the Replicator 1 3D printer, on display at the event in BIF on 5th December 2012. The credit for organizing the photograph go to Mary Kay Dailey, Associate Director of Marketing Communications, in the College of Business.
The report can be downloaded by clicking on the image above or at this link. 2013 NMC Horizon Report - Higher Ed Edition. A video introducing the report is given below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjUtoZllJ1I
Come visit us at the MakerLab Open House, on Friday 8th Feb, from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm at 103 Surveying Bldg.
Join the Maker Movement.
Learn 3D design
Make new products
Share with the world
Refreshments provided
Illinois MakerLab is the first ever 3D printing Lab funded by a Business School available for Students, RSO's, and Faculty from across campus.
This just in! The Lab is coming together, and the Makerbots are all set up, ready to go. Six Replicator 2's were set up last week in the lab. We are interviewing Lab assistants this week and expect to be operational pretty soon. Stay tuned for more updates. Here are some pictures from the unboxing and setup. For more pictures, check out the Facebook page. http://www.facebook.com/IllinoisMakerLab
UPDATE: Jan 29th We have closed this search, and will get started soon with the lab. We are looking for an enterprising student to help manage the new MakerLab (MakerLab.illinois.edu ) being set up in the College of Business in Spring 2013. The lab will provide a unique and valuable resource for Illinois business students and faculty to gain hands-on experiential learning with 3D printing and help them become "Makers". The lab will be open to all student organizations for projects and to faculty for class projects /research use.
The ideal candidate for this position will
If you are interested and/or have any questions, please send your resume, and a short note on how you meet these requirements by email to UIMakerLab@illinois.edu. Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed in the first week of classes (Jan 14-19th) in Spring 2013 .
Learn. Make. Share.
