Globally, universities have heavily invested in makerspaces. Purposeful investment however
requires an understanding of how students use tools and how tools aid in engineering …

Higher education makerspaces have great potential to provide transformative learning
experiences for students on campuses around the world [1]. A number of spaces are student …

With the rise of the “Maker Movement” and the entrepreneurial university, academic
makerspaces became widespread. These facilities provide tools and machines that enable …

Prior research emphasizes the benefits of university makerspaces, but overall, quantitative
metrics to measure how a makerspace is doing have not been available. Drawing on an …

Abstract The College of Engineering and Applied Science together with the College of Arts
and Sciences, the College of Education, and the University of Wyoming Libraries have …

Makerspaces have complex access control requirements and are increasingly protected
through digital access control mechanisms (eg, keycards, transponders). However, it …

In 2016, the CCC Maker initiative provided the California Community Colleges with an influx
of resources and energy designed to foster maker-centered learning (MCL). These hands …

Training and credentialing programs have grown in popularity within academic and
community-oriented makerspaces [1],[2]. They are often the primary means by which a …

The main reason for implementing a management system to manage access to different
types of resources, such as access to space, tools, storage lockers, rooms and machines in …

The Foundry is an interdisciplinary makerspace located in the Fine Arts Library (FAL) branch
of the University of Texas Library (UTL) System. It had a soft opening in the fall of 2016. The …