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2008 GSW

Authors

Farrokh Attarzadeh; Enrique Barbieri; Miguel A Ramos; Mayuri Mahajan; Vishal Naik; Aditya Gupta

Session 15-1 How the Capstone Class Students Perceive Their Knowledge Base?Farrokh Attarzadeh, Enrique Barbieri, Miguel A. Ramos, Mayuri Mahajan, Vishal Naik, Aditya Gupta Engineering Technology Department University of Houston AbstractThe Capstone Course is a 5-credit Research and Development course covering all aspectsof project development and implementation, entrepreneurship, innovation, creativity,team-work, and communication. The philosophy behind the course is to provide trainingand real-world, small-scale project experience

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2008 GSW

Authors

Farrokh Attarzadeh; Enrique Barbieri; Miguel Ramos

published in journals, conference proceedings andpresentations at the conferences appear to be the effort of the faculty leading capstonecourses. The good news is that capstone courses continue to be scrutinized, reviewed andimproved. In the past, most publications centered around general report on capstonecourse development, implementation and improvement [3, 4] and adding industrycollaboration component to the capstone courses [5, 6]. After ABET 2K [7] release,established capstone courses added systematic assessment component [8, 9]. Recently, aninterest to introduce entrepreneurship and commercialization into capstone courses werereported and they are on the rise [10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18].The course was originally taught under the