Engineering and business students at UC Davis are bringing problems on themselves. Through the Community Consulting Group, students in the Graduate School of Management provide free consulting services to area nonprofits and other organizations with community-based projects. Master of business administration students have developed a marketing plan to attract reliable volunteers to Davis Community Meals Shelter and prepared the first economic review of Solano County for the Solano Economic Development Corporation. Now the group is developing a marketing plan to launch an online business game for BizWorld, which helps teach children about business, and conducting research on compensation for Freedom for Hunger, an international organization. And a Design Clinic, hosted by the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, invites managers and engineers from industry to submit their design challenges to teams of upper-division engineering students. Recent projects have included a control system for rockets, a helicopter winch system, a hybrid vehicle, an elevator positioning system, a CD jukebox and a torque tester. "It is a win-win situation for students, businesses and the community," Robert Smiley, dean of the Graduate School of Management, says of the consulting. "Area organizations receive business advice and solutions while students are given an opportunity to apply their prior work experience and business-school education to real-life situations." The business and engineering students may earn academic credit for their work on the projects. Web sites are available for the Community Consulting Group, at , and for the Design Clinic, at .