Mission

The mission of the MDL is to engage undergraduate engineering students with industry through multidisciplinary real-world sponsored projects.

This is a win-win-win program:

Student Benefits:

• Experience working on real-world, challenging projects.
• Experience working in multidisciplinary teams.
• Experiencing the “engineering process” from opportunity recognition, through implementation, to customer satisfaction.
• Developing communication and collaboration skills.
• Learning valuable lessons from experienced industry mentors.
• Gaining confidence and self-assurance.
• Opening doors to internships and career opportunities.

Sponsor Benefits:

• Opportunity to meet and recruit the best and brightest engineering students.
• Opportunity to educate students and faculty in the technology specific to their business.
• Opportunity to integrate their engineering expertise into our engineering curriculum.
• Our students provide sponsors with fresh insights into their technology challenges.
• Our faculty provides sponsors with high-level R&D expertise.

Villanova University Benefits:

• Strengthens our ties with alumni and industry.
• Advances our already high leadership position in engineering education.
• Widens the experience base of our faculty, bringing real-world examples into the classrooms.
• Provides our faculty and graduate students with opportunities for new research.
• Improves our ability to attract high-caliber students and faculty to our campus.

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Read the article, High-Tech Heaven, in the Villanova Engineering Spring 2011 Edition.