64 · Survey Results: Survey Questions and Responses
Providing access to services that enable innovative student projects that otherwise would not be completed. Exposing
students to new technologies that they wouldn’t see elsewhere. Introducing new pedagogical methods for faculty to use
to teach.
Providing open access to maker technologies for our campus. (Don’t have to be an Art student or enrolled in a particular
class). Increased student engagement. Creating an innovative learning environment.
Rapid iteration of the design process. Applied, action-based learning. Smiles.
Researchers quickly get the tools or products they need. Students get to show off their design skill. It engages students
such that they learn new skills.
Strong engagement with individual users. Broad interdisciplinary demand and potential. Stimulates innovation.
Student engagement! We get to speak to so many students and researchers doing fun and interesting things. We get to
see them experiment and learn on the spot and share their ideas in our fun and easy-going environment. Collaboration!
A wonderful project for me to collaborate on with my partner in the MADLab. Since we’ve started our safety training
sessions, he’s started doing more instruction in the lab on mobile app development. Mentoring and teaching! The
project has been very rewarding for our GSLA to see how a service gets set up, managed, promoted, and evaluated.
It has been very rewarding for me to mentor her on service development and have her work really be meaningful to
this project.
Support faculty. Support students. Support scholarship.
The look of awe on users’ faces the first time they see a 3-D printer in action. Being able to offer an emerging
technology that would otherwise not be available to most of our users. Partnering with units on campus with whom we
had not previously collaborated.
Unanticipated and novel use of technology. Student reaction and excitement. Opens up opportunities for new
partnerships and relationships.
University saves money by having it centralized in the library instead of several around campus. The library is neutral
ground. It has brought engineers into the library, which used to be difficult to do.
Using the service as an example to market the library to potential donors and other groups on campus. Giving non-
technical students the opportunity to experiment.
Yet to be fully determined.
52. Please briefly describe up to three challenges of providing rapid fabrication/makerspace services.
N=34
Access for users. Gatekeeping on content. Building understanding among faculty.
Availability of staff/time expertise.
Controlling unrealistic turnaround expectations. Appropriately pricing 3-D print services. The future landscape of
university 3-D printing services is unknown.
Cost to build and support. Technical and logistical (training, reservations, access, workflows, maintenance). Ownership
&collaboration: who’s in charge and how will they share?
Cost, expertise, and promotion. Technical issues/support problems including budgeting time when requests come all at
once (student deadlines). Determining what to print re: ethics and campus policy.
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