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Designing a Senior Capstone Course to Satisfy Industrial Customers
Author(s) -
Todd Robert H.,
Sorensen Carl D.,
Magleby Spencer P.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of engineering education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.896
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 2168-9830
pISSN - 1069-4730
DOI - 10.1002/j.2168-9830.1993.tb00082.x
Subject(s) - deliverable , capstone , engineering management , capstone course , engineering , new product development , manufacturing engineering , process (computing) , product (mathematics) , product design , engineering education , multidisciplinary approach , systems engineering , process management , business , computer science , marketing , social science , geometry , mathematics , algorithm , sociology , operating system
Abstract It is sometimes forgotten that industry is an important customer of engineering education. Ignoring this relationship has produced graduates that often fail to meet the changing needs of industry in today's competitive environment. On the basis of feedback from our industrial customers, faculty from Mechanical Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering at Brigham Young University have jointly developed a new senior capstone design course entitled “Integrated Product and Process Design.” This new capstone course is centered on industrial design and manufacturing projects. These projects involve both product and process design activities. Multidisciplinary teams of students are taught a structured development approach to produce typical industrial deliverables. These deliverables include a functional specification, product and process design, prototype, and first production sample. This paper identifies changing industrial needs, describes how the course was designed to meet these needs, and presents results from the initial offerings of the course.