Welcome to the Hatch workshops
The Hatch Centre Workshops is a space for Engineering Undergraduate students to participate in experiential learning through extra-curricular activities such as personal projects, Capstones or with their McMaster Engineering Society (MES) affiliated teams, which will assist in further developing their technical and professional skills.
As students grow they will be able to take on new responsibilities with increased access to the space through the Hatch Centre Workshop’s Tiered safety program.
The Student Workshop is located in the Hatch Centre in room JHE H104 with all Engineering Undergraduate students having access to the space. It contains the tools and workspace for students to create projects or work on extra-curricular activities.
The Build Space is located in JHE H106, which is directly adjacent to the Student Workshop. Only students in a club/group/team that is affiliated with the MES will have access to the garage bays for large-scale and long-term projects. Students will be given 24hr access to the Build Space if team criteria are met.
This space is open to all Engineering Undergraduate students. In order to gain access to the space students can drop by the office and speak with the Workshop Technologist Co-Op Student in JHE-H104A to be enrolled in the Avenue to Learn Student Workshop course. After completing the online training videos and online quizzes, an orientation session can be booked so students can get acquainted with the workspace.
The woodworking space has a powerful room-wide air ventilation system that can be manually turned on which will remove dust and airborne particulates from the space, on top of the use of the Festool ecosystem of power tools. This tool ecosystem is designed to work in conjunction with their dust extractors which contain a HEPA filter in order to have a relatively dust-free work environment. Hearing and eye protection are required when working in the space. To access this space students must undergo additional training on top of the basic Student Workshop training.
With the basic Student Workshop training students will be able to use the workspace, and its basic hand tools; however, if students wish to expand their technical knowledge and skills they can talk to the Workshop Technologist to book a training session with the larger power tools, which include:
- Powermatic Belt/Disc Sander (Wood, and Ferrous Metals)
- Palmgren Pedestal Grinder
- Strands S25T Geared Head Drill Press
- E-R Maier Vertical Gravity Bandsaw
- Powermatic 18″ Variable Speed Drill Press
- Powermatic 14″ Bandsaw
- Festool Jigsaw, Palm Sander, Router, Track Saw
- Lincoln Electric Power MIG 256
- Lincoln Electric Precision TIG 225
- Microweily High-Speed Precision Lathe
- First Vertical Milling Machine
Take atour
Take a virtual tour of our state-of-the-art Hatch Centre.
Hours
Student Workshop:
Monday – Friday 12:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Build Space:
24hrs with accompanying approved Team Captain
Contact us
Lawrence Mak
Workshop Technologist