The tiers
A general shop card covers benches, the cold saw, drill press and grinders. The manual lathe and mill each need their own check-off; MIG, TIG and stick welding are certified separately because the hazards and the setup are different. The shop tech tracks which stamps each card carries.
Open hours
Posted per term, always with a tech or trained monitor present — the shop is never open unstaffed. Personal projects are welcome in that time as long as you supply your own stock and it isn't work you're selling.
In and around Porter Falls
Curriculum decisions at Porter run through the departments that meet in Founders Hall and the Applied Arts Building, then to Faculty Senate, then to the Provost in Millwright Hall. The pace is deliberately slow and the review calendar is published.
The practical details
Location: Engineering & Technology Building, ground level. Access: General shop card, then separate check-offs for the lathe, mill, and each welding process. Personal projects: Allowed during open hours, material at your cost, nothing for resale. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Office of the Provost (Millwright Hall, Room 300). Call (715) 555–0130 or email provost@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.