{"id":123011,"date":"2022-08-24T11:45:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T15:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/?page_id=123011"},"modified":"2022-10-16T00:34:30","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T04:34:30","slug":"epic-facilities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/academics\/teaching-and-innovation\/engineering-product-innovation-center-epic\/epic-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"EPIC Facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/eng\/files\/2022\/08\/EPIC-Website-Gallery1-636x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-123012\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/files\/2022\/08\/EPIC-Website-Gallery1-636x150.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/files\/2022\/08\/EPIC-Website-Gallery1-1024x242.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/files\/2022\/08\/EPIC-Website-Gallery1-768x182.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/files\/2022\/08\/EPIC-Website-Gallery1.jpg 1285w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">STATE OF THE ART<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span>EPIC features teaching space, demonstration areas, laboratories, and a product fabrication facility, all in a reconfigurable layout that is easily adaptable to future technologies and educational needs.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>EPIC Resources<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Hardware and software for computer-assisted design, including an $18.8 million in-kind gift of product design and lifecycle management software from PTC.<\/li>\n<li>Full machine shop, featuring multi-axis CNC machines, mills, lathes, and a wire EDM<\/li>\n<li>Additive manufacturing equipment including FDM, SLA and metal printing<\/li>\n<li>Automated, robotic manufacturing line<\/li>\n<li>Materials characterization laboratory<\/li>\n<li>Metals foundry including sand casting and investment casting<\/li>\n<li>TIG and Spot Welding<\/li>\n<li>Sheet metal working tools<\/li>\n<li>WaterJet cutter<\/li>\n<li><span>Laser cutters<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Electronics workbenches<\/li>\n<li>The Lorraine A. Tegan Design Studio, where students can work in teams to conceptualize their designs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/epic\/equipment\/\" class=\"button\">Equipment Available at EPIC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STATE OF THE ART EPIC features teaching space, demonstration areas, laboratories, and a product fabrication facility, all in a reconfigurable layout that is easily adaptable to future technologies and educational needs. EPIC Resources Hardware and software for computer-assisted design, including an $18.8 million in-kind gift of product design and lifecycle management software from PTC. Full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21167,"featured_media":0,"parent":122416,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/123011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123011"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/123011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130765,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/123011\/revisions\/130765"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}