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Welcome to the Skilling Laboratory!

The Skilling Laboratory  serves Aeronautics and Astronautics classes, providing space, shared tools & equipment, and a home with a welcoming culture, to support the development of practical engineering skillling for undergraduate and graduate Aeronautics and Astronautics students.

Image of a student's hands working with a balsa plane by measuring with a steel rule

Skilling Laboratory

Aeronautics and Astronautics

The Skilling Laboratory supports our Aeronautics & Astronautics community and teaching programs, supplying space & opportunity to embed practical learning into courses. We provide:  

  • Flexible teaching space for project-based AA undergraduate & graduate courses
  • Hand tools, additive manufacturing, and prototyping equipment & supplies for the use with AA courses
  • Opportunity and belonging for AA community to ideate, create & make, to develop technical, creative, and practical engineering skills

    Check out our resources & research - and to get in touch with us, please contact Brittney Niemeier - bholmquist@stanford.edu (access questions), Marcos Barba - mbarba@stanford.edu (facility related questions), Sade Shafer - fasmiley@stanford.edu (health and safety related questions), Dr. Nicolas Lee - nnlee@stanford.edu (academic related questions). 

Recent news

During a recent quarter, 20 teams of students assembled atop the steps of the Skilling Laboratory to flight-test balsa woods gliders that they designed and built from scratch in AA100 with Professor Ken Hara. 

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Location 

Aeronautics and Astronautics Department 
Skilling Laboratory
Upper Level, 494 Lomita Mall                                                                                                                                                                           Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305