Innovation Center
Solving Real-World, Client Challenges
The Innovation Center connects industrial, entrepreneurial and
community clients with real-world challenges to student teams who are ready to find solutions.
We are home to engineering design, entrepreneurial learning and creativity in the School of Engineering. Since 1996, our students have completed over 2,000 projects for over 300 companies.
Through our Project-based, multi-disciplinary learning, Students...
- Focus on customer needs to move real-world projects closer to the marketplace.
- Work with the School of Law when IP issues develop.
- Partner with the School of Business for market/business feasibility studies.
- Become the complete professional with the best topic of conversation at any job interview!
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Student teams present the outcomes of their semester-long senior design projects at the Capstone Design Symposium.
A team of UD engineering seniors took home second place at the inaugural Quality of Life Plus National Design Competition. They were tasked with designing a lower-limb socket for a prosthetic that mitigates heat and moisture.
The DAX Evidence Recorder is a device that can be used for more than field sobriety tests of impaired drivers — it’s also an essential tool to test workers in safety-sensitive positions and even testing athletes for head injuries in contact sports.
With the help of students from the School of Engineering's Innovation Center, under the mentorship of the Innovation Center’s faculty, the DAX Evidence Recorder is ready for mass production.
Read the full story on our Dayton Engineer Blog and view the NBC 4 Columbus News video
As their Innovation Center capstone design project, four University of Dayton engineering students designed and built a "Treadmill Centering Device" for a blind Air Force veteran to improve his quality of life. Click here to go to Fox19 video.
Delivering on a Promise
In 2019, a group of engineering students