Conference Session

IED Technical Session: Preparing for the Future Through Projects and Research

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Desen Sevi Özkan, Virginia Tech; Homero Gregorio Murzi, Virginia Tech; Alejandro Salado, Virginia Tech; Chris Gewirtz, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

fall apart. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Reality Gaps in Industrial Engineering Senior Design or Capstone ProjectsAbstract Undergraduate Senior Design or Capstone Projects (SDP) are intended to provide aculminating experience for undergraduate students. In SDP’s, students are expected to put intopractice their engineering competences to solve a realistic problem. Realism is pursued by settingup boundary conditions that mimic to some extent those found in the corporate world. For example,projects are defined by an external company that acts as a sponsor or client, last between one andtwo semesters, are carried out in teams, and, in some cases, are vaguely defined. Moreover,students are