The Student Competition Center is the starting line for seven student engineering competition teams. Located in a 17,000-square-foot space on 14th Street near Hemphill, the center is designed to foster innovation among hundreds of students who design, build, and compete using a variety of vehicles or robotic or autonomous systems. In addition to having a separate work space for each team, the center is equipped with extensive machining resources in its Common Machining Area.

The teams that call the Student Competition Center home are: EcoCAR, GT Motorsports, GT Off-Road, GT Solar Racing, HyTech Racing, RoboJackets, and Wreck Racing.