AIM Center

Since 1993, the professional experts at the AIM Center have been helping manufacturing companies all over the Miami Valley tackle the rigors of lean implementation and process improvement, provide hands-on employee training, and design and manufacture complex prototypes.

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Center for Competitive Change

Learn from us through continuing education opportunities in lean manufacturing, reliability and other areas. The Center for Competitive Change provides educational performance-based, lean learning events that help organizations become successfully positioned for getting to the future first.

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Design and Manufacturing Clinic

Have a back-burner project? Give an engineering problem to a student team in UD's Design and Manufacturing Clinic, which has completed more than 100 projects for 40 companies since 1996.

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Engineering Computing and Information Services

Engineering Computing and Information Services (ECIS) provides state-of-the-art computing and information services to faculty, staff and students in the School of Engineering. The ECIS staff designs and administers networks, workstations and PCs. Classrooms and study rooms in Kettering Laboratories are covered by the University wireless network. Students have access to School-standard academic and advanced engineering software, as well as productivity, utility, e-mail and other network software.

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Industrial Assessment Center

The University of Dayton Industrial Assessment Center is one of 26 centers funded by the U.S. Department of Energy to conduct free energy, waste and production assessments for mid-sized industries.

Kettering Laboratories Innovation Center

The cornerstone of the University of Dayton School of Engineering, the Innovation Center is a transformational space where all disciplines of our school come together to encounter, debate, address, investigate and solve multi-faceted problems.

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Ladar and Optical Communications Institute

The Ladar and Optical Communications Institute is believed to offer the national's first laser radar curriculum. LOCI consolidates the brainpower of the region's ladar researchers — instructors from UD and the Air Force Institute of Technology — to put ladar on a faster track to the battlefield and business.

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Nanoscale Engineering Science and Technology Laboratory

The NEST Lab is a multiuser facility — utilized by student researchers, faculty, and educational and industry clients — with state-of-the-art equipment that enables research and development through the interrogation, characterization and manipulation of materials at the nanoscale.

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University of Dayton Research Institute

More than 380 full-time researchers, technicians and support staff provide basic and applied research and development services to our customers. The UDRI experience gives our undergraduate and graduate students a fundamental edge in the field of research.

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von Ohain Fuels and Combustion Center

The von Ohain Fuels and Combustion Center is a gateway to education, research and development, technology transfer and knowledge dissemination in fuels and combustion. The center is named for Hans von Ohain, co-inventor of the jet engine and former UD professor of mechanical engineering.

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Wright Brothers Institute - Innovation and Collaboration Center

In 2004, Liming Dai was hired as the nation's first Wright Brothers Institute Endowed Chair to build and guide a nanomaterials research program at UD, in collaboration with the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratories at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Research performed in collaboration with AFRL, with support from Ohio's Third Frontier Project, is making advanced materials technology a reality.