The Dynamic Design Lab focuses on the use of dynamic modeling as a means of integrating mechanical design with automatic control and diagnostics. The DDL is located in the back lab of Building 500. The Manufacturing Modeling Laboratory is located in the Thornton Center for Engineering Management. The Product Design Loft is a unique facility in which students in the Product Design Program develop their design projects. The Product Realization Laboratory is an invaluable Stanford resource offering prototype fabrication facilities in support of student design activities.
Students do all of their own fabrication.
All PRL resources, including instruction and coaching by staff, are available to Stanford affiliates as are a number of quarter-long courses which make use of the shop. The Rapid Prototyping Laboratory is an automated research facility focused on the development of new processes for the generation of fully functional prototypes, using Shape Deposition Manufacturing principles. The Smart Product Design Laboratory supports microprocessor application projects related to ME218abcd . The Stanford Micro-Structures and Sensors Laboratory is the setting for efforts to develop and fabricate novel mechanical structures. Basic research on the non-classical phenomena exhibited by micro structures is emphasized as well.