Conference Session

IE Program Design I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leslie Potter, Iowa State University; K. Jo Min, Iowa State University; Frank Peters, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

developed through an understanding of the concepts of professionalism, businessand cultural etiquette, and other related topics.”5The capstone course format is designed to require extensive teamwork. Typically, teams of fourstudents (though occasionally three or five) have fourteen weeks to move through all the steps ofproblem definition and solution generation at an industrial partner facility. Teams write andpresent a formal proposal during the third and fourth weeks of the semester. After instructoracceptance, they spend ten weeks researching, designing, and justifying solutions, which theymust then formally write and present to the industrial partner during the last week of thesemester. The only individual evaluations throughout the entire