Machine Shop Rutgers University Department of Physics and Astronomy Machine Shop O ur Machine shop serves both the physics and chemistry departments, has a staff of five, and a complete set of state of the art machine tools. Our foreman, Val Myrnyj , leads the effort. He and Eric Paduch , Ernie Erskine , Billy Schneider , Arvid Knudsen provide highly skilled machine shop support to our department's research and teaching activities. We have welded several large vacuum chambers for experiments in surface science and condensed matter physics.
W e have excellent computer facilities including computer-aided design and manufacturing programs.