The Senior Design Capstone provides students with a “real-life” industry project as part of their major design experience during their senior year. Student Teams work with sponsors, who are also the customers. With advice from subject-matter experts, the teams complete meaningful engineering projects.
Guidelines
- Each project is managed exactly as if the students were just hired by a company and placed on an engineering team. Students are responsible for generating the project plan and then executing the plan.
- Throughout two semesters, they are guided in technical areas by the subject-matter experts and mentored by the instructor in a host of professional and business skills such as communication, teamwork, ethics, professionalism, company values, metrics, and new business acquisition.
- By working in teams, they develop leadership and group interpersonal skills and deal with scheduling conflicts and meeting deliverables.
- Students are responsible for managing customer relationships and solving the many real-life issues that undoubtedly occur.