BIDC already serving large number of students
Director Matthew Swabey reports the following numbers as of April 1, 2018:
- Major Breakdown by School (all schools > 3%):
- Mechanical Engineering (28%)
- Aeronautics and Astronautics (23%)
- Purdue Polytechnic Institute (10%)
- Electrical and Computer Engineering (9%)
- Civil Engineering (6%)
- College of Science (4%)
- Other (4%)
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Socially, the building is the home of the Purdue Engineering Student Council which has invited the club All Majors Engaged in Technology (AMET), a multidisciplinary society, to run its build nights (open to all Purdue students) out of the BIDC.
In October 2018, the facility will have a campus-wide learning community based out of Wiley Hall. Called “Hands on Design and Fabrication,” it is geared toward students who wish to learn design and fabrication.
The following is a short video produced by two ME students under the direction of Professor Guillermo Paniagua from ME & AAE:
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