Services
What the IPDL Can Do For You
The IPDL has general staffed open hours throughout the week where a lab mentor is available to assist students and faculty. Mentors can be identified by their yellow lanyards and badges.
Resources Available in the IPDL
The lab provides a variety of resources for students and faculty to utilize that includes electronics prototyping equipment such as soldering stations, multimeters, and oscilloscopes. The lab has the means to create wearable electronics such as sewable sensors, sewing machines, and conductive thread. Collaborative work spaces with video conference capabilities are also available for meeting or work sessions during open hours.
List of all lab tools and resources coming soon!
Tools Available for Checkout
Experimenting with the wide variety of sensors, outputs, and other hardware available in the IPDL allows students, faculty, and researchers to a gain access to testing and decision making tools without the need to invest in components. Many of these items and tools are available for checkout and students can utilize them for class projects or self-learning.
Students need to fill out the checkout form before they are allowed to use certain tools outside of the IPDL. If a specific input, output, or processing device is desired to be incorporated into a project or device, it is strongly encouraged that the student or faculty purchase the component.
List of checkout-elegible tools and items coming soon!
Assistance with Courses and Research
Associated IPDL faculty members and researchers offer teaching and learning opportunities and can facilitate presentations and group-learning sessions that provide general overview of how to integrate electronics into products. The IPDL can also assist with research needs and inquiries through its expertise in creating devices for collecting data and/or devices for testing interaction with users.