The University of Washington is responsible for supplying the Sky Survey telescope, the buildings to house the equipment at Apache Point, the optics, and parts of the spectroscopic systems. The telescope and the buildings, each a unique structure, were designed by University of Washington engineers and built under University of Washington supervision by industrial subcontractors. The optics, designed at the University of Washington, include the telescope's lightweight 2.5-meter primary mirror, the secondary mirror, and three correctors, all exotic pieces of glass essential to maintaining good images over the wide field of the 2.5-meter telescope. The University of Washington was responsible for the design and building of complex parts of the spectrographic system, including the fiber optics and the plug-plate assembly.

Participants from Univ. of Washington:

* denotes a Builder of the SDSS.