dfab / industrial design modules
The CAP Digital
Fabrication
Stack
You’ve used the laser cutter. You’ve submitted a 3D print. Now what?
The CAP Digital Fabrication Stack is your roadmap to becoming a complete digital fabricator — from advanced woodworking and CNC routing to large-scale cutting with plasma and waterjet. Every skill builds on the last. Every machine is more capable than the one before it. And none of it is as hard as you think.
Makercorps 5-week short courses
The ECAP Makercorps team is launching a new strategy to craft timely and specific manual making and digital fabrication short course offerings based on student interest.
Your Essential First Step: Complete the Interest Survey!
Your feedback is the foundation of this entire system. Please complete the Makercorps Interest Survey now if you have not done so already:
[Direct Link to Interest Survey HERE]
The Makercorps Course Loading Zone Concept
Building on the Interest Survey, the Makercorps Course Loading Zone is a newly developed system designed to match student demand with faculty and resource availability. By using initial survey feedback, we are opening this live system to the entire Ball State Maker Community to refine our offerings.
[Direct Link to Interest Survey HERE]
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WHY?
The R. Wayne Estopinal College of Architecture and Planning is committed to preparing our students to excel in their career pursuits of expanding, retrofitting, and enhancing the built environment. In order to prepare our students to collaborate with allied professionals in the applied sciences, we continue to expand our industrial resources and develop knowledge in contemporary construction methodologies. The development of models, mock-ups, and small built work projects remains a critical component of design education and the fundamental understanding of form, material, fabrication, and purpose. The makercorps is one of many important initiatives to enhance the educational experience of our students.