Tran, C. M. (2024, March), The Conversion of Capstone Senior Design to a Two-Semester Format  Paper presented at 2024 South East Section Meeting, Marietta, Georgia. 10.18260/1-2--45567

\bibitem{asee_peer_45567}
  Tran, C. M. (2024, March), \emph{The Conversion of Capstone Senior Design to a Two-Semester Format}
  Paper presented at 2024 South East Section Meeting, Marietta, Georgia.
  10.18260/1-2--45567

Chau M. Tran.  "The Conversion of Capstone Senior Design to a Two-Semester Format".  2024 South East Section Meeting, Marietta, Georgia, 2024, March.  ASEE Conferences, 2024.  https://peer.asee.org/45567 Internet.  22 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_45567}
  Chau M. Tran.
  "The Conversion of Capstone Senior Design to a Two-Semester Format".
  \emph{2024 South East Section Meeting, Marietta, Georgia, 2024, March}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2024.
  https://peer.asee.org/45567 Internet.  22 Dec, 2024

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AB  - This paper illustrates the conversion of capstone senior design from a one-semester format to a two-semester format and reveals the benefits of such conversion.  In the past, a senior design project was completed in either a fall semester or a spring semester course.  Since fall 2019, a senior design project was completed in a sequence of two courses, Mechanical Engineering Design I in the fall and Mechanical Engineering Design II in the spring.  The one-semester format enables the students to adjust their schedule to accommodate an unforeseen change in graduation time.  The two-semester format loses this flexibility and also takes away the available credit hours for a technical elective course; however, it provides the students with an opportunity to solve a more complicated project and produce a product of proven quality.  With the two-semester format, the conceptual design phase increases from three to five weeks; the embodiment design phase increases from four to eight weeks and the prototype construction phase increases from five to eleven weeks.  Besides additional design concepts, the two-semester format provides three new experiences – consultation with real-world engineers during the feasibility study review, construction of a mock-up model prior to building the prototype and substantiation of robustness.
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