The Stanford Product Realization Laboratory offers prototyping and fabrication facilities in support of student design activities. The shops offer traditional machining, woodworking, foundry, plastics molding, welding, finishing, and metrology tools. State-of-the-art computer-aided drawing, manufacturing, and prototyping systems are also available.

All PRL resources, including instruction and coaching by staff, are available to Stanford students as are a number of quarter-long courses which make use of the shop.

The shop is run by Dave Beach and Craig Milroy of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

If you are a First Time User:

Please go to the "Using the PRL" section to sign up for safety training. If you would like information about how to become a shop user, please visit our Shop Access page.