ESDC Door Access

ESDC is designed to support students working on multidisciplinary intercollegiate Competition Teams. Students in teams that have been allocated space by the Engineering Design Council may request entry. In order to gain access to ESDC, which includes ESPL, ESDL, ESDL Annex, Civil Quonset Hut, and MechSE Machine Shop (for the purpose of access), prospective members must complete the following steps in this order: sign up on your team's roster, complete the DRS training modules, and complete the ESDC Door Access Test in Prairielearn.

Note that the ESDC Door Access just gets you into the doors of ESDC and you must take special additional safety training to access or use the ESPL or ESDL Machine shops, MechSE Machine Shop or any of the CNCs Access, or use welding equipment. Training and tests must be specific to the equipment they will use. See the ESDC machine shop access tab for more details.

Sign up on your team's roster

In order to start working towards access, you must be on an Engineering Design Council Sponsored team and then successfully complete the training and tests outlined below. Each team's leadership will add members to the official roster.

If you are on multiple teams you must be on every team's roster, but only need to complete the following steps for one team only.

Division of Research Safety (DRS) Training Modules

After going your teams roster, the next step is to complete the DRS Laboratory Safety modules.

1) Hazard Communication Training (valid indefinitely)

2) Compressed Gas Safety training (valid indefinitely)

3) Fire Extinguisher Training (valid for 1 year)

4) Electrical Safety: Fundamentals (valid indefinitely)

They are found on the DRS website under the training tab, or click here to login and access it. After you have taken both parts, save the certificate as a PDF and send it to your team's leadership to be recorded.

Take the Prairielearn ESDC Door Access Test

Watch the Respiratory Fit Check Video and the High Voltage DC and Lithium-Ion Battery Hazard Awareness video. Then, read and understand the ESDC Safety Policy and Procedures. You will then take the ESDC Door Access Test by yourself, which is based on these materials. You must score 100% on this test and submit the PDFs of the DRS certificates, which must be valid until August 31 of next year. Within one week of passing the test, you will be granted i-Card access to ESDC.