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The Fab Academy course

01.03.2017

Workshops

The FabLab at CEPT is offering a 7 month long course (January to July 2017) called the ‘Fab Academy’. The course aims to teach principles and applications of integrated design and digital fabrication. Fab Academy is developed to teach hands-on skills in Fab Labs, which began as an outreach project from MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms, and has grown into a global network of more than 500 labs.

Fab Academy is based on MIT’s popular rapid-prototyping course ‘How To Make (almost) Anything’, taught by Prof. Neil Gershenfeld. It offers a distributed rather than a distance educational model: students learn in local work groups, with peers, mentors, and machines, which are then connected globally by content sharing and videos for interactive classes. The individual labs are supported and supervised regionally by super-node sites with more advanced capabilities, expertise, and inventories.

FabLab CEPT is currently a "node" with team of instructors (Urvi Sheth, Tapan Betai and Rudrapalsinh Solanki) supervised by Ohad Meyuhas (Regional Tutor) from FabLab Israel. Admission to Fab Academy is open for all: students, makers and professionals. The FAB Academy course is available to anyone above 18 years of age, irrespective of their academic background. Selections are made based on the project proposal. Participants receive a Diploma in Fab Academy, issued by MIT, Boston. Applications for Fab Academy 2018 will begin in September.

For further details contact fablab@cept.ac.in

The Fab Academy course