The ESDC provides work space and support for many collegiate design and competition teams. Click for a list of our teams designing, creating and building in our Center.

Introduction to Engineering Design is an innovative undergraduate elective course at UC Davis. This hybrid communication and design course is available to all undergraduate students in the College of Engineering, regardless of major or class standing. Course objectives are to provide meaningful connections between engineering content, oral communication skills and creative problem-solving through an engaging multidisciplinary team design experience without increasing time to degree. More information can be found here.

Senior design projects are the capstone of the College of Engineering undergraduate experience and the culmination of three quarters of hard work on real-life, client-based projects. Over 180 teams from all eight engineering departments annually present their projects to industry, alumni, and campus community at the annual Engineering Design Showcase. Students put in hours of drafting, modeling, prototyping, testing and analysis to complete a product, device, process or software system—on top of an already rigorous curriculum. Visit our Design Showcase page to learn about this year’s program.

Using an interdisciplinary approach, the UC Davis D-Lab works with communities to address global challenges in energy, agriculture, and the environment.  Students and staff work toward solutions to these challenges through experiential courses, international satellites, global outreach, and research. D-Lab offers a variety of client-focused, project-based courses at UC Davis open to both undergraduate and graduate students. In these courses, students work on real projects to perform feasibility studies then design, build, and test prototypes using technical, social, environmental, and economic lenses.