EcoCAR will ramp up this fall as the college’s Diane Bryant Engineering Student Design Center (ESDC) re-opens after a two-year expansion and renovation. The two are set to grow together and benefit everything that calls the ESDC home.

Published: 5/3/2022

The Diane Bryant Engineering Student Design Center — now under construction after the groundbreaking last October and due to open in fall 2022 — will offer hands-on educational experiences and encourage students to envision how they will change the world.

Published: 2/9/2021

Following the groundbreaking, faculty, staff and students on the ESDC Project Committee will share more about the expansion and answer your questions about our big plans.

Published: 10/8/2020

ESDC Faculty Director Kurt Kornbluth and Director Jose Mojica describe how students are Innovating for the Greater Good through client-focused, project-based learning during UC Davis’ Innovation Spectacular.

Published: 9/22/2020

We celebrated the groundbreaking of the Engineering Student Design Center (ESDC) expansion. We were joined by Chancellor May, faculty, staff, students and alumni, who shared their enthusiasm about the future of engineering design education in the new ESDC. Watch the 33 minute event here.

Published: 9/3/2020

To meet the rapid growth demands of our engineering and computer science programs, the new Engineering Student Design Center (ESDC) will include areas to accommodate instruction, student-client collaboration, rapid prototyping and more.

Published: 3/27/2020

From teaching to research projects, D-lab focuses on sustainability

Published: 2/18/2020

Creativity needs space, time and the proper tools for an idea to come to fruition. Thanks to a generous $5M gift from John ’69 and Mindy Baum, the Engineering Student Design Center (ESDC) will provide an expanded, visionary new space in which students will be able to dive into creative and entrepreneurial ventures.

Published: 3/5/2019