CNC Shop Is Sparkling Addition

The Department of Chemical Engineering is proud to announce the addition of a Computer Numeric Controlled (CNC) Shop to its already excellent Machine Shop facility. The CNC Shop is free of the grinding particulates generated by many types of tools. Machines in the CNC Shop are sensitive and must be free of such particulates in order to function properly.

According to Chairman Carl Knopf and Machine Shop Manager Paul Rodriguez, the Department of Chemical Engineering is fortunate to have such a facility. Most universities do not have CNC Shops, and they are key in the production of high-grade research equipment.

The CNC Shop is housed in the old chemical engineering building and includes a computer-controlled lathe and mill.

A mill was the first piece of machinery to grace the new CNC Shop.

A lathe soon joined the mill.

Next year, we will add an EDM (the second such one in Baton Rouge) to the CNC Shop, and a 4-Axis computer-controlled milling machine will arrive in June 2002. An adjoining room houses the computers used to program and control the machinery.

Martin Vangundy at work in the CNC Shop