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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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Capstone Design Symposium

Student teams present the outcomes of their semester-long senior design projects at the Capstone Design Symposium.

Engineering for Quality of Life

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.

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Delivering on a Promise

In 2019, a group of engineering students were given the challenge of designing and building an adaptive bicycle. But the school year would bring challenges they never expected. This video follows the journey of a group of University of Dayton engineering students working on a capstone project and making a difference for a local family.

CONTACT

Innovation Center, Rebecca Blust, Director

Kettering Laboratories
300 College Park
Dayton, Ohio 45469 - 0211
937-229-2581
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