College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Machine Shop
Equipment
- 5 CNC milling machines
- CNC lathe
- Four manual lathes
- Drill presses, saws, welding equipment, sheet metal fabrication equipment
- Measuring tools calibrated yearly by standards traceable to NIST per the guidelines specified in the latest revisions of ANSI/NCSL Z540-1 and ISO/IEC 17025.
Materials
- Metals including steel, aluminum, and titanium
- Plastics
- Garolite
- Specialty material
Additional Services
- Carpentry
- Laser plastics
- Water jet cutting
- 3D Printing
An alternate to requesting Machine Shop staff to professionally machine parts for you is for you to machine the parts yourself at the Engineering Student Machine Shop located in the Siemen’s Center room G450 at the corner of Washington St and Madison St, a 5-10 min walk from Van Allen. The Student Machine Shop there provides training and access to milling, cutting, drilling, sanding, waterjet cutting and more from 8 am – 4 pm daily.
Coming soon: a Physics Student Machine Shop for simple tasks, such as drilling.
Rates
$86/hour University of Iowa clients; $100/hour external clients
Requests and Inquiries
Jobs may be submitted to the Machine Shop by filling out the Shop Inquiry form to the right. The request will generate a ticket, which will ensure the job gets scheduled and completed.
Alternatively, the Machine Shop maintains an open-door policy, and you can go in person to request the job. Machine Shop staff will create the ticket for you.
UI ProtoLabs
The machine shop collaborates with UI Protostudios a state-of-the-art, rapid-prototyping facility located at MERGE coworking space in downtown Iowa City. Focusing on biomedical and electronics prototyping, Protostudios helps Iowa entrepreneurs create prototypes and advance their research or business
Customers
The shop supports many University of Iowa Department of Physics and Astronomy projects, including space physics, high energy physics, plasma physics, and astronomy, but also collaborates with other departments across campus. External clients include:
- Penn State University
- CERN
- JPL
- NASA
Contact
Brian Busch
brian-busch@uiowa.edu
(319) 335-1845
UI Clients: submit work requests to phys-machine@divms.uiowa.edu
Machine Shop Staff
Brian Busch
Matt Miller
Toby Tompkins