The Advanced Laboratory gives students an opportunity to work on interesting challenging projects, deepen their understanding of the underlying technology, and to further develop laboratory, analysis, and communication skills.

Students learn how to study printing technologies by being responsible for all aspects of several small experimental projects. Every project explores important engineering tasks and comes with basic objectives, specified equipment, and much support.

Learning in the Advanced Laboratory is fundamentally different from regular lecture courses, and is much closer to what happens in research, production, planning and in other typical careers they may aspire to. Students must choose what to learn and how to learn it; some projects never have a single, correct, final answer, so students must learn to decide when they are finished. Students cannot expect to have already learned about the practicalities in their lecture courses, nor to be formally trained in an experimental, technological or engineering technique.

Each course involves a specific laboratory, print studio or facility. Students will choose a single department for each advanced lab course.

This Advanced Laboratory and the assigned tasks deal with Gravure Printing and its environment, namely cylinder making, printing, metrology, etc.