Metals & Jewelry Design Facilities
BFA in Metals & Jewelry Design
Working Spaces
Students in the Metals and Jewelry Design program have the use of some of the best-equipped studios in the country. The college has invested substantially in studio equipment in recent years to ensure our students a seamless transition to the professional world.
All three of our metals/jewelry studios are brightly lit and well-resourced for a variety of processes. Equipment includes:
- 24 goldsmithing benches with torches, flex-shafts, and full hand-tool assortments at every bench
- 10 CAD workstations
- 4 CNC milling machines
- Sensable haptic user interface for CAD design
- Stratasys dimension fused deposition modeling 3D printing system with 10×10x12 build envelope
- High-resolution Envisiontec Perfactory 3D printing system
- Senior studio, for independent work on thesis projects
- 10 workstations with GRS Graver-Max pneumatic hammers and graving balls
- 21 state-of-the-art fume extraction nodes
- 2 powder coating systems with medium capacity ovens
- 3 enameling ovens
- CPP laser welder
- Capacitive discharge welders
- Torch, resistance, and induction metal melting for centrifugal force and vacuum casting
- Anodizing and plating systems
- Manual milling machines and lathes
- Silversmithing stakes, hammers, vises, pneumatic hammer, and English wheel
- Rolling mill
- Wire drawing bench
- 4 polishing stations
- Full compliment of plastics and rubber forming technologies
- Pressure and vacuum wax injection systems
- 24" CNC vinyl cutter
- Rota-Spray photoetching system
- 14" 50-ton hydraulic press
- An assortment of forming and fabrication tools, including disc-cutting, bead roller, and more
