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Hello. My name is Ben Hudson, and I'm a fourth year Industrial Design student here at RIT
You're standing in the middle of our industrial design studio
Here juniors and seniors will spend time working on their individual projects
although
it tends to get fairly messy
and that's just
kind of a by-product of the way that we work
In addition to individual student desks we also have collaborative tables
that students can work on
in cross-disciplinary projects
as well as a project with multiple design students in them
The nice thing about our studio is it's it's an open-air studio
All the desks are in one area, we've got juniors and seniors all sort of mixed in
together and so there's a lot of uh... there's a lot of social interaction
We'll pull late nights in the studio, get some tunes going, and you know
just have some fun
So this is what we call the sanding room
If you look up on the wall we've got
tons of
just random materials
It's uh... sort of a general acceptance that we can find pretty much anything in
here, depending on what you're looking for -- springs, raw materials for wood
We tend to make a lot of mock-ups out of a yellow foam
which is this stuff right here
It's really easily sculptable
We just cover this in
plaster
and paint it and you can get a really nice photo finish model
This is our tool room
and it's managed by our shop technician Rick Auburn
In here you can find just about
any tool imaginable
This is the 3D printer that we use in the industrial design program
Basically how it works is it's a vat of
cornstarch that
you uh...
you got a printhead that comes over right on top
and it
prints a specific layer of epoxy resin on top
and that hardens and then
the vat moves down just a little bit and it covers it with
with cornstarch again and the next layer is printed
and what that allows us to do is get extremely detailed models
from our computer
computer models that we made
upstairs
So this is the industrial design department I hope you enjoyed this tour
and we'd love to hear from you Please come in and we'd be
happy to give you a real tour