Engineering Design Capstone
General
- Undergraduate; 4th year, Capstone
- 180 learners; teams of 5
- 200 hours per learner
- Dates set by experience
- Learners self-assign
Preferred companies
- 5 projects wanted
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Academic experience
- Any
- Manufacturing, Government, Automotive, Transport, trucking & railroad, Airlines, aviation & aerospace, Construction, engineering & trades
Categories
Skills
Project timeline
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October 3, 2020Experience start
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October 7, 2020Letter of Intent & Team Engineering + Audit 1
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October 15, 2020Design Proposal & Feasibility Study + Audit 2
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November 19, 2020Midterm Presentation + Audit 3
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December 17, 2020Midterm Progress Report
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January 21, 2021Form, Fit & Function Model
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April 5, 2021Experience end
Timeline
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October 3, 2020Experience start
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October 7, 2020Letter of Intent & Team Engineering + Audit 1
Check in with industry partner
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October 15, 2020Design Proposal & Feasibility Study + Audit 2
Design Proposal & Feasibility Study
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November 19, 2020Midterm Presentation + Audit 3
Check in with industry partner
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December 17, 2020Midterm Progress Report
Midterm Progress Report
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January 21, 2021Form, Fit & Function Model
Check in with industry partner
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February 11, 2021Manufacturing, Testing & Safety + Audit 4
Manufacturing, Testing & Safety
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March 11, 2021Prototype Demonstration + Audit 5
Prototype Demonstration to industry partner
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April 1, 2021Final Poster Presentation
Presentations to industry partner
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April 4, 2021Peer Evaluation
Peer Evaluation
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April 5, 2021Experience end
Overview
- Details
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Student-consultant groups will address an open-ended engineering design problem your organization faces under the guidance of a faculty member with specific expertise in the problem area.
- Learner skills
- Design, Problem solving, Project planning, Data analysis
- Deliverables
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Working Prototype (Demonstration)
Final Poster Presentation
Final Project Report
Students are provided with a $800 budget from the department to produce a working prototype as one of the deliverables.
Organization representatives will participate and provide feedback to students, their faculty advisor, and the course instructor in structured design review meetings in both Fall 2020 and Winter 2021.
Project Examples
Beginning this September, Engineering students in their final year will spend over 1000 cumulative hours per team collaborating with you to solve a design problem that your organization faces.
Based on the information that you provide, student-consultant teams will work under the guidance of professors to develop innovative solutions through implementing cutting edge technology and advanced engineering practices.
Past project examples include, but are not limited to:
- Ice Breaker project
- Design and prototype creation of strollers
- Autonomous Runner Separator Robot
- Cleaning Weeds Origami Robot for Cariovascular Applications using Robots
- Checking soil pH levels
Additional company criteria
Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:
Be available for a quick phone call with the organizer to initiate your relationship and confirm your scope is an appropriate fit for the experience.
Companies should specify their ability to share information (e.g., needed data) and whether or not an NDA would be required. If data is needed for project completion, it should be made available to the students by early September 2020. Otherwise, the match can not be finalized.
Provide a dedicated contact who will be available to answer periodic emails or phone calls over the duration of the project to address student’s questions or provide additional information.
The topics proposed should also be relevant to Engineering program.
Minimum of 4 to 6 interactions with the students in-person or remotely (approximately 16 to 24 hours over the duration of the project).
The client should be invested in the proposed topic in order to provide mutual benefits to all parties involved.