The shop provides needed support to the Faculty and researchers within the College of BASC and all the University community.The facility's primary mission is to design and fabricate prototypes of speciality laboratory equipment as well as repair existing types of glass apparatus and equipment. It also fabricates regular apparatus available commercially, but at a lower cost.

Types of glasses routinely used for fabrication include borosilicate (Pyrex), fused quartz, aluminosilicate, and some glass and lead glass.

Examples of special equipment produced by the facility:
Liquid nitrogen /liquid helium four walled-single body Dewar with quartz window for low temperature crystallization studies.

Acetone percolation device for ultra cleaning of cells used in spectroscopy.

Multistage water cooled oil diffusion pumps for high vacuum.

Glass seals to metals like kovar, tungsten, and platinum.

Available equipment includes: lathes, various hand torches and bench burners, annealing ovens (one is 7 feet long), polariscope, equipment for cold working glass, high-vacuum system for silver deposition. The shop is well stocked for tubing, valves, and various components.

The facility is managed by Adrien Connangle, classically trained in the well-renowed Lycee Technologique Dorian in Paris, France.

Adrien can be reached at 225-578-6712.