The Engineering Design Studio at NYU Abu Dhabi supports ambitious student undertakings from across the university through coursework, mentorship, and engagement with external partners. Students are challenged to undertake problem solving and value creation through the lens of engineering design, combining approaches from across disciplines to deliver elegant answers to meaningful problems. The studio is home to the Engineers for Social Impact program, the Design & Innovation program, and hosts a number of Core Curriculum courses. It serves as a hub of activity for senior engineering capstone project work, as a home for teams preparing competition entries, and is a focal point for student interest groups.

Within the studio, resources are available 24/7 to transform ideas into reality; however, it is not a "Maker Space" in the traditional sense. Instead of focusing on access to equipment or training programs for operating manufacturing tools, emphasis is placed on identifying worthwhile endeavors, the refinement of concepts, and the selection of effective strategies, software tools, representations, and processes that best deliver on the goals of the student-led ventures. This approach aligns with the philosophy that engineers are responsible not for the making of things but for ensuring what gets made has been planned, designed, simulated, and verified to be practical, feasible, and sensible to produce. The next generation of engineers is provided space and time to develop the poise and confidence necessary to initiate and deliver technically-sophisticated, socially-responsible and culturally-relevant responses to some of the most challenging design prompts the world has to offer.

The Engineering Design Studio promotes student-initiated endeavors and encourages a framework of thinking that extends beyond theory into a zone where personal initiative, resourcefulness, critical thinking, and perseverance are key drivers to success. Since the inception of the studio, students have created open source projects, filed and been granted patents, won national and international awards and competitions, started companies, collaborated with partners in government and industry, and received grants and awards totaling more than 4.8 million UAE Dirhams.
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The Engineering Design Studio is part of the NYU Abu Dhabi Engineering Division