Conference Session

Capstone and International Experiences

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard S. Stansbury, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; William C. Barott, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Salamah Salamah, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Cockburn2,3.The course has involved requirements, preliminary design, and then a sequence of two weekiterations in which detailed design, implementation, integration, and testing were all performed.During the 2010-2011 academic year, the computer and software engineering capstone designproject included a pair of mini-projects to introduce students to the agile process. The first mini-project involved creating a client-server software system in which data could be written on onecomputer and displayed on another. For the second mini-project, the students had to program amicrocontroller to communicate remotely with a computer terminal. A graphical user interfaceon the terminal allowed the user to send commands to the microcontroller to enable/disable