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Fabrication Lab
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policies
These policies are not and cannot be a comprehensive guide to every situation that you may encounter while working in the Fab Lab. You are expected to exercise caution, best judgment, and respect for your colleagues at all times.
Unacceptable behaviour could result in revocation of Fab Lab access for the duration of your DMA career.
Responsibilities
The Fabrication and Electronics lab managers have full authority over the Fab Lab area and ensures that safe practices are taught, including the responsibility, authority, and obligation to prohibit shop or tool access for the safety of an individual and others in the shop.
Students, faculty, and staff must all comply with all applicable health and safety regulations, policies, work practices, and Fab Lab policies.
Undergrad Access
Students who have taken the required orientation, signed the affidavit, and paid required fees may use the Fab Lab during designated daytime hours. Up to 35 undergraduate DMA majors quarterly may sign up for drop in access during open hours. Other students, including undergraduate non-majors, are special access only.
Employees of the Department of Design Media Arts may request training and access for open lab hours.
Basic orientation confers access privileges and basic tool use only. Specialized equipment, including the table saw, miter saw, and bandsaw, require machine specific trainings. Training on a per-tool basis is required for each academic year.
Graduate Access
MFA candidates who have taken the required orientation, signed the affidavit, and paid the required fees have 24-hour BruinCard access to the lab; the availability of some equipment may be restricted after hours.
Students must always work in pairs after hours. Using “the buddy system” will ensure that there is always someone to help in case of emergency or injury.
Although access to the Untitled Space is available through the front door, under no circumstances should the Untitled Space be used outside its normal operational hours.
After hours access is available for trained graduate students only, undergraduate students may not use the labs after hours, under any circumstances, even if assisting with grad projects.
Graduate students may not invite undergraduates to work in the lab at any time, even during normal hours of operation, unless arrangements have been previously made with the Lab Manager.
Graduate students lose access and storage privileges on the last day of the quarter in which they graduate.
User Authorization and Training
All shop users must be given a yearly site orientation and be trained in emergency procedures specific to the shop and machines used.
Approval to operate each machine listed on Orientation and Training Affidavit must be obtained annually prior to use.
The appropriate level of supervision (Direct or General) shall be determined by the Lab Manager according to the level of equipment hazard and user training/competence.
The training form certifies this level of qualification and must be on file in the Training Records binder found near the front door of the lab.
Users who have been certified on a tool for the Direct level of supervision must check their tool setup, material, and initial operation of the tool with a Lab Manager before proceeding with their work.
Fees
Graduate students are charged a $100 lab fee at the end of each quarter in which access was assigned. Please be aware of the following:
- Graduate students must notify the Lab Manager each quarter access is desired.
- Access to the lab is removed at the beginning of each quarter.
- The summer between a student’s first and second graduate years is treated as one quarter.
Undergraduate students are charged a $70 lab fee at the end of each quarter in which access was assigned.
The laser cutter is run as a service separate from the access provided by paying the lab fee. The laser cutter costs $2 per minute, with a minimum $5 setup fee and $20 per hour of setup there-after.
useful links
https://support.dma.ucla.edu