Welcome to the Cerritos College Fab Lab

Where Innovation Meets Creation

About the Fab Lab
Welcome to the Cerritos College Fab Lab, located in the ME1 building. Our state-of-the-art facility is designed to support students and community members in prototyping, fabrication, and hands-on innovation. Whether you're creating a competition robot, designing parts for drones, or working on the next great invention, the Fab Lab is here to make your dreams come true.

Our Mission
At the Cerritos College Fab Lab, our mission is to foster creativity, innovation, and learning through access to advanced fabrication technologies and resources. We aim to empower individuals to bring their ideas to life, bridge the gap between conceptualization and production, and cultivate a community of makers and innovators.

Fab Lab Equipment
Explore the extensive tools and technologies available in our Fab Lab, everything you need to fabricate your product prototype:

  • Design lab: State-of-the-art CAD stations with SOLIDWORKS, Autodesk Inventor, Fusion360 and AutoCAD available for students use.
  • Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Equipment: FormLabs 3 and 3L, Bamboo Labs Carbon X1, AirWolf3D Axioms and Evo, Mark Forge 1, BigRep 1
  • Thermoplastics Processing Equipment: Plastics casting, vacuum/thermoforming, injection molding, compression molding, filament extruder, rotomolding, and rotocasting
  • Composites/ thermosetting equipment: lamination table, vacuum oven, sintering ovens, walk-in freezer for prepreg composites, MarkForge1  composites 3d printer.
  • Process Technologies: Process control trainer, analytical process control, thermal process control, pumps control, PLC for industrial applications
  • Electronics: Microcontrollers (Arduino, Basic Stamp lab), PCB routing, welding and electronics assembly
  • Materials testing: Low pressure scanning electron microscope (SEM), optical microscope, universal tensile testing machine, hardness, surface roughness, melt flow index testers and 3d scanners.
  • Subtractive manufacturing and genal fabrication: Laser cutters, flow jet cutter, manual knee mill, drill presses, band saw, sanders, sanding booth, hand tools, and power tools for fabrication

Community and Collaboration
We believe that innovation thrives in a collaborative environment. The Fab Lab is not just a place to work on projects; it's a community of like-minded individuals who share a passion for making and creativity. Join us by enrolling into our ENGT, ET and NPD classes, and participation in our Engineering Technology / Robotics club. You will have a chance to participate in in class   project showcases, and collaborative events that bring together students, faculty, and community industrial advisory committee members.

Get Involved
Ready to start your next project at the Fab Lab? The Fab Lab is exclusively available to students currently  enrolled in the Engineering Design Technology, Engineering Technology, and New Products Development classes. Whether you are a student, a hobbyist, or a professional, the Fab Lab is open to all who are eager to create and innovate within the enrolled programs. Enroll into one of our ENGT, ET, or NPD classes to start !

Access to the Lab
The access to the lab is limited to only  current students enrolled in the ENGT, ET, and NPD classes. This summer 2025, we are offering the class ENGT105: Product Design, Development, and Prototype Fabrication. In this class, you can develop your product from concept to realization. Other classes which use of the FabLab resources are:

  • ENGT111 Plastics Technology
  • ENGT209 Plastics Injection Molding I
  • ENGT 251: Composites Fabrication
  • ET102: Electronics for Engineering Technology
  • ENGT259: Introduction to SOLIDWORKS
  • ENGT103 Introduction to Engineering Design with Inventor