Electronics Manufacturing Automation Laboratory
Stanford Telecom Lab - (Bldg 192)

The Stanford Telecom Electronics Manufacturing Automation Laboratory provides a modernized and expanded manufacturing automation assembly area while offering a state-of-the-art teaching and learning environment for a newer, "asynchronous" instructional approach.

In order to improve the educational process for a large number of engineering students, a complete renovation of the physical lab was necessary. The facility upgrade included the addition of circuit board processing, phototool production, numerically controlled circuit board drilling and routing equipment, and automated surface-mount placement upgrades.

With Stanford Telecom's gift, the student moves beyond lecture presentations and text discussions of industrial practice and understands the industry process by becoming completely involved. The students themselves do the proposal writing, CAD schematic capture, CAM circuit board layout, CNC drilling, phototool creation, board etching and assembly, chassis creation, finishing, labeling, documentation, and Final Design Review report and presentation of a real pre-production prototype electronic product.