I don't know which specific school you are talking about but if you are looking for digital fabrication in grad school you may want to look at schools like Columbia, UCLA, Rice, Ball State, SciArch and others out there. Have fun, digifab is the future.

Stevens Institute of Technology's: Product Architecture Lab

Nah, it wasn't the Product Architecture Lab (in fact, i didn't see anyone from Stevens presenting at ACADIA this year).

I've done some homework on places for grad school, but these guys came out of no where with a lot of pretty amazing student work in their presentation. Mostly built full-scale work, it was impressive.

I'll try finding the program information tomorrow, unfortunately its probably lost :-(
Unless anyone else has any ideas...

Ball State's Institute for Digital Fabrication?

Pixel called it: Ball State. Their Institute continues to get better and better.

Literally came out of nowhere - Muncie, IN. I'm a May MArch graduate from Ball State (though my focus was Historic Preservation) but I can attest to their work. If you're interested in more information contact me through Archinect. I know a few people I can put you in contact with.

If Ball State had a M.Sc. I'd be applying there - M.ArchII just doesn't appeal to me.

of course, it is Muncie...

thats a bonus in my book - I'm intentionally avoiding any school in NYC out of my strong dislike of that city. I'd be much happier in the middle of nowhere.

tired of this everyday runnin' around
everybody knows this is nowhere...

actually i like the sticks and i like small town living...

Thanks guys, very helpful. Funny, just went to the website, didn't know that Ball St was in midwest. The newer projects are even better than the projects I saw at ACADIA!

Very interesting...

What I want to see is how these well-funded digital fabrication departments, Ball State and The University of Michigan in particular, can engage the issue of how digital fabrication actually operates in professional practice. Whomever owns the risk on a project (traditionally not architects) will be the one to really engage digital fabrication. If architects can extend their scope to directly engage manufacturers in the delivery of a project, and own that risk, then we'll actually begin to realize some of the promises of digital fabrication in architecture. But it's a lot harder than just learning the technology and making more beautiful digi-forms (which I love as much as the next person.)

Maybe there should be an MBA/Digifab program somewhere...

flashpan, from what I know of the Ball State Institute, they are actively engaging local manufacturers - for example, limestone fabricators - in their research activities, and the overall program (not only the fabrication institute) involves practitioners as well (why I end up hanging out there so often ;-).

PENN has recently launched their IDP (Integrated Product Design) program that focuses on digital fabrication and product manufacturing techniques. It is a joint program between the Architecture and Engineering departments. Many of the architecture students are pursuing this as a double major. It is still a very new program but very interesting.

for the equally interested: UPENN's IPD

pixel -- did you see CCA'a job post ad? you should take a look...

Re: The University of Minnesota

This booklet

http://designarchives.aiga.org/?s1=2|s2=1|eid=19752

won a place in the 2008 AIGA Annual Design Competition