The Center for Design Education, created in 1995, evolved quite naturally from its founding organization, HMC’s Engineering Design Center. The design center was first envisioned as an integrated network of computing facilities and laboratories that would support the Engineering Department's multidisciplinary program and enhance its emphasis on engineering design. This vision was later broadened—and dedicated as the Center for Design Education—to include programmatic activities focusing on design education and related design and pedagogical research. The new center set about advocating the centrality of design in engineering education.