On a Thursday in October, TechSpark shop instructor Tom Rusu was helping Pedro Fonseca Da Silva, a sophomore mechanical engineering student, repair a machine he was using to mill a tic-tac-toe ...

Why do designers and mechanical engineers need experience operating a manual mill, or for that matter any machine tool? A similar question might be asked about CNC machinists: Who cares about all that ...

CNC machine tools are getting ever more affordable for the amateur machinist, and they’re an enabling technology for many projects. But you’ve got to respect the old school approach to turning hunks ...

The Machine Shop at Wilkes, also known as the Applied Manufacturing Center, provides engineering majors with real-world, hands-on experiences in modern manufacturing and machining processes, bridging ...

HEIDENHAIN is a world-leading provider of encoders, machine controls, touch probes, digital readouts and metrology solutions—empowering engineer...READ MORE James Disney, who sold his CNC machines to ...