Welcome to 2025 Craig M. Berge Engineering Design Day
Teams display projects ranging from an autonomous amphibious delivery system to a golf robot.
Craig M. Berge Design Day is a story of remarkable student success and all the ways engineers help people.
With 79 incredible capstone projects, 50 dedicated project sponsors, 125 seasoned industry judges, and $51,000 in prize money, I am so proud of this year’s Design Day.
Something for Everyone
As they looked toward engineering careers, the members of the class of 2025 collaborated in labs and workshops on aircraft designs, medical devices and diagnostics, communication networks and recycling methods.
Their designs are a testament to the technical agility and creativity of our students and mentors. Teams furthered space exploration efforts with a lunar base water collection system and a more efficient rocket engine. They manipulated light to grow coral and sterilize face shields used by health care workers. Students improved a mining shovel and designed a process for removing heavy metals from water using fungi.
Many of the seniors here will graduate this month with impressive job offers or graduate school plans. These accomplishments demonstrate why Engineering Wildcats quickly attain roles in which they can influence and build the systems, technologies and solutions humanity needs most.
I recommend you ask questions as you take in the dazzling displays of ingenuity. Students are thrilled to tell you about these fantastic projects they’ve worked on throughout the academic year. If you miss anything, you can learn about the projects in the students’ presentation videos, which will be available online (b.link/DesignDay2025) following the awards ceremony.
Join us for the 4 p.m. Design Day Awards Ceremony, where standout seniors will collect 35-plus prizes in all, from the Fish Out of Water to the Most Outstanding Project.
Thank You for Your Support
Design Day and the Interdisciplinary Capstone Course are part of a lineup of competitions, maker fests, major-specific design classes, entrepreneurial and business mentorship, and industry and community projects in the Craig M. Berge Engineering Design Program. The program immerses undergraduates at all levels in real-world experiences that integrate design, manufacturing and commercialization.
We are especially grateful to the donors, program mentors, university and industry partners, sponsors, judges, faculty, staff and alumni who help make the design program and Design Day a highly successful enterprise.
I’d like to extend a special thank you to Nancy Berge and her family for their generosity, and to Larry Head, director of the Craig M. Berge Engineering Design Program, for his commitment to an unparalleled experiential learning program and design curriculum in higher education.
Bear Down, and support our Wildcat engineers!
David W. Hahn
Craig M. Berge Dean, College of Engineering