New lab at UNLV for undergrads facilitates innovation
There is a machine in an engineering lab at UNLV that will print out a wrench if you ask it to.
Plug in some computer wizardry and, poof, you’ve got a wrench. Not a picture of a wrench, mind you, but an actual wrench. Or a propeller, a plastic doo-dad or pretty much whatever you want, so long as it fits in the machine.
That piece of high-tech equipment is in the lab for undergraduates, newly christened Thursday night in a dedication ceremony for the Mendenhall Innovation and Design Laboratory. University officials say it is one of the few engineering labs like it.”Very few colleges of engineering in 
the country have a spot like this, for students,” said Nicholas Fiore, the director of the Mendenhall Innovation Program, which aims to provide engineering students with enough business savvy to make it in the real world. Read full story:
