Innovation Center
Over 1500 client challenges solved!
Over 200 external clients have real-world challenges ready for our University of Dayton School of Engineering Innovation Center students and faculty to solve — a transformative space!
Project-based, multi-disciplinary learning
- 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!
Since 1996, student teams have solved over 1500 industry challenges and have met or exceeded our client expectations over 85 percent of the time!
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Our design teams experience “true-to-life” challenges. Student teams meet with their faculty advisers to complete projects and present them at the Capstone Design Symposium.
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.
For appropriate data for the calibration of brake-by-wire braking systems, the team has designed a testing apparatus.
The Fall 2018 and Spring 2019 teams created a virtual environment including the acid mixer and photos from an actual dialysis clinic water room, along with floating text prompts and improvements to the visual aspects of the program to create a fully interactive simulation.
To provide Sgt. Brown with an easier shifting experience, the team successfully created a fully enclosed and battery powered voice activated gear shifting system.