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The Student Design & Experiential Learning Center (SDELC) was established in 2000 in order to better support the various multi-disciplinary student design teams that existed independently. In 2004, the Center's mission expanded to provide experiential learning in academic courses, identify and support student service learning projects within the curriculum, and support ad-hoc student teams in specialty academic events supporting multi-disciplinary student research.

Under the new mission, the SDELC took steps to better fund our ten student design teams that involve roughly 10% of the undergraduate body. We also began offering support and resources to special project teams that were multi-disciplinary in nature and had a research base to their activities. The SDELC began to offer academic credit opportunities in the form of three, one-hour classes on design, leadership and communication. The Center also offers a half-credit course through the Residential College (RC) program on experiential design. The RC program currently has an enrollment of over 100 students (each semester) actively engaged in hands-on learning projects. All in all, the student design teams, research teams and projects, and the academic courses available encompass the essence of experiential learning at Missouri S&T.