College of Design Day

 

 

College of Design Day, celebrated early in Fall Semester, gives students and faculty an overview of current events in the College and its schools. School chairs introduce new faculty and explain major events and program updates, and leaders of student organizations introduce themselves and discuss opportunities for involvement.

New students get to meet peers and faculty in a relaxed environment, and returning students stay up-to-date with happenings throughout the College.

Scenes from Design Day 2026

Representatives from student organizations speak with College of Design students.
At this year's Design Day, representatives from student organizations offered information about opportunities throughout the College.
College of Design faculty, staff, and students seated in the West Architecture atrium.
Students and faculty throughout the College learned about opportunities, events, and significant changes within each school during presentations from each school chair.
Students gathered around a robot dog on the West Architecture lawn, with a Waffle House truck in the background.
Always a student favorite, the School of Building Construction's Astro made the rounds, providing photo opportunities and a chance to see the types of technologies students study.
Students getting promotional notebooks.
Students collect College of Design doodle books as promotional giveaways from the event.
Students in line to get lunch.
As has become tradition, students, faculty, and staff gathered and mingled at the lunch on the lawn, catered by Waffle House.

Scenes from Design Day 2025

Lisa Marks at a podium in front of a College of Design banner
Lisa Marks, as the interim chair of the School of Arts, Entertainment, and Creative Technologies, gives information about the recently announced School and undergraduate program.
Audience applauding, sitting the in West Architecture atrium
Students, faculty, and staff gathered from presentations about events, opportunities, and changes throughout the College.
Students queuing up to get plates of food from Waffle House.
Waffle House lunch proved popular again, with the queue stretching around the building.
Attendees at Design Day in conversation on the West Architecture lawn.
Attendees had an informal opportunity to mingle and meet new people through the schools and research centers.
People eating and talking at Design Day
Design Day provides a time when members of the College of Design mingle across school lines and when all faculty, staff, and students can relax together.
Students sitting indoors, some wearing Waffle House hats, eating and talking by the West Architecture stairs.
Students sitting indoors, some wearing Waffle House hats, eating and talking by the West Architecture stairs.

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