| STAFF MEMBER | TITLE |
 Koichi MASUBUCHI |
Professor, Co-Director |
 Nicholas PATRIKALAKIS |
Co-Director, MIT Kawasaki Prof. of Engineering |
| Roger ANDERSON | Graduate Student |
| Fred BAKER | Research Engineer, Lab Manager |
| Kwang Hee KO | Graduate Student |
| Dr. Takashi MAEKAWA | Research Scientist | Dr Shouji TANAKA | Visiting Engineer |
| Guoxin YU | Ph.D. Graduate Student |
| Tony ZONA | Technician |
Research activities on welding at MIT initiated during the 1930's by a group of faculty members directed by the late Prof. John Wulff at the Department of Metallurgy which is now called the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Professor Koichi Masubuchi joined the faculty of MIT in 1968 after Professor C. M. Adams who was the director of the Welding Laboratory left MIT in 1967. Professor Masubuchi first used the facility at the Welding Laboratory, but he soon started his own laboratory called the Welding Systems Laboratory in the Department of Ocean Engineering. While major research activities of the Welding Laboratory are on joining of materials, with special interest in fundamentals of the materials science, major activities of the Welding Systems Laboratory are on fabrication of marine and aerospace structures. The Welding Systems Laboratory's objective was generalized last year to include other fabrication processes such as plate forming and the laboratory was renamed the MIT Fabrication Laboratory.
The following resources are available to the Fabrication Laboratory members: