It's been 6 months since our last update - apologies, we the petition writers were out of state.

We have not given up hope here that UH Engineering will give us an open discussion, in public, to take our student recommendations for what a makerspace on campus needs. We have seen what Create@UH's vision is, and it is a view of a dark future of engineering.

Over the last 4-6 months we have carefully watched Create@UH be worked on by staff picked by the new UH Engineering deans office. The space, after much renovations, contains no 3D printers, no CNC machines, no woodshop tools, no hand tools, and no space for engineering student organizations to use and reserve the space. Instead, the room is simply chairs and whiteboards - turned into another classroom. There is not even a process available for students to use that space for events, like competitions, workshops, and others. Organizations have attempted to make contact as early as December and January with reservation requests and details, but there has been no discussion at all, even through the deans of their own departments.

This is what failure looks like for this petition - A sanitized engineering curriculum, where the idea of constructing something, of being able to fabricate components, of being competitive or creative, is far away from the exams, midterms, and finals. 

Please, for the love of creativity, share this with other institutions, organizations, and people. Share it so this petition doesn't die and that we can get what students need to just complete an engineering curriculum at the level ABET and other institutions ask us for. 

Thank you for keeping up with this after so long.