Collection

2019 CIEC

Authors

Joseph Morgan; Jay Porter

and required a large time commitment from the faculty astechnical advisors. In addition, the program also embedded entrepreneurship concepts in thecourse allowing students to use capstone as an avenue for entrepreneurial activities. At the time,enrollment in the course was very steady at approximately fifteen to twenty-five studentsresulting in approximately four to six teams per semester per course. This was easilymanageable by the permanent faculty and resulted in a high quality experience for the students.Today, ten years later, several initiatives at the College and Department levels have changed thedemographics of the program. First, the College has experienced a rapid increase in enrollmentover the past five years. This has resulted in

Collection

2019 CIEC

Authors

Sean Tavares; Shawn Banker; Christopher LeBlanc; Jonathan Ferguson

the pseudoscorpion, the hair-like features needed to be deleted. However, the students were successful in modeling the rest ofthe object, including the relatively complex coiled feature and other protuberances.Post Capstone Project ExtensionsFollowing completion of the formal capstone project, one of the students, co-author JonathanFerguson, continued working on the process as an independent summer project. During thistime, a researcher at the University saw the results that had been achieved during the capstone,and inquired about the possibility of creating a scaled model of a 500 micron long RumenProtozoan that she could use for demonstration purposes in classes of young children. In orderto meet the educational aims, the researcher