NEW! The Student Shop goes CNC! See bottom of page!

The College of Engineering Shops offer a wide range of conventional and specialized services to the College of Engineering, the University community and State of Wisconsin agencies.

Laser alignment array.

Thruster cooling jacket and mandrel.

Ring nozzle assembly from Engineering Mall fountain sculpture. All the welded-on half-couplings are angled in slightly and meet at a point in space about one meter above the ring. Stainless steel.

Equipment Descriptions

In addition to the usual machine tools found in a well-equipped shop, the COE Shops can provide the following:

• CNC Milling - 2D and 3D profiling
• CNC Turning - compound curves and complex shapes
• Precision grinding - surface, center and centerless, internal and external in metals and ceramics
• Diamond sawing - hard metals and ceramics
• Tool and die making
• Plastic injection mold making
• Mechanical engineering design services
• Specialized machines for honing, lapping, abrasive blasting, hardness testing in metals, static balancing and thermocouple welding
• Welding of most metals and general fabrication
• Heat treating of metals and some plastics
• Sheet metal punching, forming and fabricating
• Sign and label engraving in metal and plastic
• Blueline prints - A to D size
• Tool Crib - a "hardware store" carrying a large stock of materials, parts and fasteners. Parts and materials ordering from any vendor. Overnight service on many items.
• COE Student Shop - hand tools and shop machines available for student use. Supervision and advice available. This shop is for use by College of Engineering students only.

The Southwestern Industries 1540V CNC lathe is the latest addition to the array of CNC machines in the Instrument Makers' Shop. This lathe features constant surface speed, gang tooling and a very accurate spindle. The control runs Microsoft Windows and can be networked to our instrument makers' workstations. This flexible machine can do small, highly precise parts as well as larger conventional lathe work.	Instrument Makers' Shop. Each work cell is equipped with a milling machine and ProtoTRAK Edge 2D CNC control, a lathe, a computer work station, a bench and tool storage.
Milltronics 3-axis CNC milling machine. Our shop has four CNC mills, two CNC lathes and two CAD/CAM workstations.	Bridgeport Romi CNC lathe.
The Discovery Area, B1085 Engineering Centers Building, offers large areas for work on student projects. The COE Student Shop, Tool Crib, Concrete Canoe Lab and three meeting rooms open onto this area. A QuickTime panorama of this image is available (1.9 MB). OPEN the QuickTime panorama.	The COE Student Shop, B1086, offers a wide variety of machine tools for student use. A QuickTime panorama of this image is available (2.8 MB). OPEN the QuickTime panorama.
The newest machine in the Student Shop is the TRAK K2E from Southwestern Industries. This is a very capable 2-axis CNC milling machine about the size of a classic Bridgeport. The machine can be used in manual, "canned cycle" and fully programmed mode. 2D contours, bolt circles, pockets, frames and irregular shapes are easy to machine.	The heart of the K2E is the ProtoTRAK Edge control. This PC-based device can function as a DRO or 2D CNC control. Programs may be entered conversationally on the panel or via the built-in floppy disk drive. Graphic representation of the programs and shop math are available on the screen. Tutorial manuals may be checked out from the Tool Crib. See Dave Vidlock for help setting up the K2E.

Equipment Manuals

These manuals are available through the courtesy of the equipment manufacturer for use by members of the UW-Madison College of Engineering community. Please use your CAE username and password to access the manuals.

• ProtoTRAK^® Edge: Programming and Operating Manual, 37 pages, 1,026 KB PDF.
  Copyright 2004 Southwestern Industries, Inc. Posted by permission.
• ProtoTRAK^® Edge: Self-Training Manual, 39 pages, 352 KB PDF.
  Copyright 2004 Southwestern Industries, Inc. Posted by permission.

ESPRIT Computer-aided Manufacturing Training Videos

These videos are available through the courtesy of the equipment manufacturer for use by members of the UW-Madison College of Engineering community. Please use your CAE username and password to access the manuals.

• Click Here First
• Working with CAD Introduction
• Graphic Interface
• About CIM Integraters
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5

Contact Us

For further information stop in or call Todd Kile, Shops Manager. We're open from 7:30 AM to 4:00 PM, Monday through Friday. We are open during breaks and between semesters but are closed for legal holidays.

Office: Rm 180E Mechanical Engineering, 1513 University Ave., Madison, WI 53706-1572
Tool Crib and Student Shop: Rm B1086 Engineering Centers Building

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