Students

Students engaged on a project in the Design Lab solve real world engineering challenges for some of the world's largest and most innovative companies as well as newly formed entrepreneurial start-ups. The results are a solid, well-defined solution for sponsors and an unparalleled multidisciplinary engineering experience for students.

Benefits of Sponsorship

The Design Lab continually seeks projects that accomplish two goals:

• To engage engineering students in open-ended, technically challenging, real-world design projects that are important to sponsors and partners.
• To provide a valuable return on investment in ideas, innovations, and potential employees to our sponsors and partners.

There are many benefits to becoming a Design Lab project sponsor. Benefits include:

• Solving a complex technically challenging problem that is important to you.

The mission of the O. T. Swanson Multidisciplinary Design Laboratory is to provide a clinical real world experience for students; one that builds confidence and allows them to integrate discipline-specific knowledge with practice on challenging multidisciplinary design projects.

Real-world engineering experiences that integrate multidisciplinary design solutions and deliver results.

In honor of one of Rensselaer’s most accomplished, active, and loyal alumni, Clarence E. Davies ’14, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute established the Davies Medal for Engineering Achievement.

The Davies Medal shall be awarded for distinguished engineering achievement by Rensselaer alumni who meet one or more of the following criteria: