Mr. Henry G. Skupniewicz visited the College to engage with the management, faculty and students in setting up a Fabrication Laboratory (FabLab) in the Campus. Mr. Skupniewicz a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, heads the FabLab in Ahmedabad.
Mr. Henry G. Skupniewicz was greeted by Mr. Johnson Tellis, Semester VIII, Electronics & Communication Engineering in the presence of Dr. Manjunath Bhandary, Chairman, Dr. Umesh M. Bhushi, Principal and Prof. Umashankar B. S., Dean-Academic and the faculty members. In the session held with the faculty, Mr. Skupniewicz gave a brief introduction about Fablab, its working and the steps to setup a FabLab. The session continued with interaction with students wherein they clarified their doubts concerning FabLab and its setup and also doubts regarding higher education at MIT.
A FabLab is a small-scale workshop offering (personal) digital fabrication. The program began as a collaboration between the Grassroots Invention Group and the Center for Bits and Atoms at the Media Lab in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a grant from the National Science Foundation. The FabLab setup in Sahyadri campus will benefit the students in outsourcing their projects, help them in executing their projects and act as an online community for 24×7 support.