Klinger (Quote 1):  I think it's really promising. I mean a lot of the new ideas that are happening are happening around the world. So, there's a kind of a global exchange of information that's happening and yet, I think its part of our responsibility as a society to translate those global ideas into local conditions and to work with the things that are around us. So, we've always started thinking about this motto for the Institute for Digital Fabrication that is," Exchange globally and make locally." So, that in fact the conversations that we're having are with local fabricators, material suppliers, working with software and everybody trying to figure that stuff out together. At the same time, we're sharing information with a global network of people that are all also trying to figure these things out.

Klinger (Quote 2):  What's really unique about the opportunity that I don't see at a lot of other universities is that it takes students in the classroom and it also allows them opportunities to get out of the classroom working in real world situations, working with real world results, and really trying to learn by expanding beyond the boundaries of the campus. I think it's really important that the students get these different kinds of opportunities to work in numerous different ways. So, that they're not isolated from how things are actually working but they're actually learning from industry and industry's learning from them.

Klinger (Quote 3):  Let me give you an example. On the Streams project we worked with a sheet metal fabricator called Zahner Architectural Metals and they've done building skin façades for Frank Gory, for the new de Young Museum in San Francisco by a firm called Herzog & de Meuron, this panel. Some of these metal panels that you see around me are actually fabricated by Zahner Architectural Metals. When I was speaking with Bill Zahner about the success of the Stream seminar, he came up to me said, "Well, we'd love to have some of your graduates come and work for us," and I think that tells the story of the competitive advantage that we have coming out of these kind real world experiences. The students are more desirable to firms when they're coming out because they've had some experience already that they're looking for in these firms. They're immediately hirable, they have the kind of knowledge base and the knowledge skill set that the firms are interested in bringing into their practices as well.

Klinger (Quote 4):  Indiana has a strong tradition for making stuff, still some 30% of our economy is based in manufacturing and we have a strong manufacturing tradition. We hope to connect to some of these firms in a more significant way through the university with these immersive learning opportunities. Specifically with the Institute for Digital Fabrication, we're interested in talking with the limestone industry and figuring out how we can use advanced manufacturing to develop new products for limestone. We're also very interested in talking to the Indiana hardwood industry which is the number one crop in terms of income in the state of Indiana. This has brought implications for developing schemes for furniture, for interior fitouts, even products. As well, we're interested in talking with metal fabricators because all of these people are now starting to look at the benefits of using digital technology to ramp up their practices. The immersive learning opportunities are a great way for us to put students in the center of that exchange with industry and to really let everybody benefit from the rising tide.