The Glass department provides its students with a thorough technical foundation and broad resources for specialized material exploration. An extensive custom facility offers a full range of glassworking processes (see below). Among its various refinements are a half-ton continuous-melt glass furnace, a 500-lb. casting furnace, 22 computer-programmed process ovens, a well-developed coldworking facility and individual studio space for graduate and undergraduate students.

Hot Shop

• Continuous melt furnace (1000-lb. capacity)
• Casting furnace (500-lb. capacity)
• Three glory holes
• Three benches with compressed air stations
• Mobile pipe cooler
• Gas-fired pipe warmer
• Two large front-loading annealing ovens
• Two top-loading annealing ovens
• Three pick-up ovens
• One front-loading sculpture annealing oven (for solid work)
• Rolling metal boxes and ladles for sandcasting
• Oxy-propane bench torch
• Natural gas-fired garage
• Sand casting equipment (ladles, metal boxes, acetlyne)
• Two Digitry GB5 controllers
• One Watlow 981 controller

Kiln Room

• Two small kilns
• Three small stacker ovens
• Four medium ovens
• Two large ovens
• One car kiln
• One bell kiln
• Two Digitry GB5 controllers
• Nederman downdraft de-molding table

Cold Shop

• Clipper diamond cut-off saw
• Covington diamond cut-off saw
• Somaca glass drill press
• Two Somaca roller platen vertical belt sanders
• Three diamond flatting wheels
• One large Steinert flatting wheel
• Two Somaca polishing wheels
• Four grinding/cutting lathes and diamond wheels
• Two Merker cutting lathes
• Two Foredom flexible-shaft engraving stations
• Merker engraving lathe
• Two Tornado I and II air-powered diamond shaping tools
• Two Starlite hand-held etching/grinding tools
• Two Rose Industries Recipro-lap automatic polishing machines
• American ultraviolet curing lamp
• UV gluing station
• Polarizing lamp

Sandblasting Room

• Zero Mfg. Co. #BN 65-1 sandblaster
• Cyco-Blast industrial sandblaster

Plaster Room

• Hoffman RPGH-15 steam machine

Additional Equipment

• Carlisle and Bethlahan bench burners