Overview
The College of Engineering Capstone Design course provides industry and community partners the opportunity to work with a multidisciplinary team of senior engineering and computing students focused on accomplishing innovative and impactful projects. Over the course of this two-semester program, students lead engineering design projects from planning to completion. While benefiting the project sponsor, students develop essential leadership and professional skills required of them when entering the workforce, including creative problem solving and cooperative collaboration. The ethics, laws, rules and regulations, licensure, leadership, and professional practice of engineering are also important aspects threaded throughout this course.
Student teams are comprised of 3-5 members and receive guidance throughout the project cycle from an appointed faculty mentor and a designated point of contact within the sponsor organization. Project assignments are based on the needs and preferences of the project sponsor, faculty recommendations and assessment of student skills, and student interest and project rankings at the start of the fall semester.
Once assigned, students work with sponsors using the EduSourced project management platform. This platform centralizes all communication and files related to the project, while facilitating collaboration and remote work with both students and faculty mentors to achieve project milestones.
The capstone design course concludes each year with the Design Showcase, where students present prototypes and design solutions developed for their projects. The course timeline and additional information about becoming a project sponsor may be found on the following pages.
Sponsorship
Capstone Design Program sponsorship provides funding to support project materials, leadership development certification, project supervision, software, tools, and other resources to ensure students reach the best outcomes for their clients. With the number of student teams increasing annually as the College of Engineering grows, support from project sponsors allows the college to continuously make enhancements to improve the student and client experience.
All supporters through the sponsorship options below will receive priority consideration of projects as student teams are being assigned.