Houghtalen, L. M., & Kennedy, T., & Smith, R. E. (2018, June), Assembling a Successful Industry-sponsored Senior Capstone Program: Lessons Learned from a Startup Effort at a Liberal Arts University  Paper presented at 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah. 10.18260/1-2--29817

\bibitem{asee_peer_29817}
  Houghtalen, L. M., \& Kennedy, T., \& Smith, R. E. (2018, June), \emph{Assembling a Successful Industry-sponsored Senior Capstone Program: Lessons Learned from a Startup Effort at a Liberal Arts University}
  Paper presented at 2018 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah.
  10.18260/1-2--29817

Lori M Houghtalen, Timothy Kennedy P.E., and Raymond Earl Smith.  "Assembling a Successful Industry-sponsored Senior Capstone Program: Lessons Learned from a Startup Effort at a Liberal Arts University".  2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah, 2018, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2018.  https://peer.asee.org/29817 Internet.  13 Jan, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_29817}
  Lori M Houghtalen, Timothy Kennedy P.E., and Raymond Earl Smith.
  "Assembling a Successful Industry-sponsored Senior Capstone Program: Lessons Learned from a Startup Effort at a Liberal Arts University".
  \emph{2018 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah, 2018, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2018.
  https://peer.asee.org/29817 Internet.  13 Jan, 2025

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - A medium-sized (around 4000 students) liberal arts university recently began a general engineering program. The program’s first graduating class was in May 2016, and the program obtained initial ABET accreditation in August 2017.  Entering the 2015-2016 academic year, program faculty envisioned a capstone design experience that would engage student teams in a year-long, professional level design project sponsored by an industry client. The first two years of the capstone design program have been inarguably successful, and in this paper we identify the keys to our success. The intention for writing this paper is to ensure the success of the program is repeatable, and to assist other programs, especially those residing in small liberal arts universities, in starting or revising their own senior design experience.   

While there are a wealth of best practices to consider for senior design, there is not one right approach. Our key factors in building a successful industry-sponsored senior capstone program have been: (1) faculty buy-in and involvement, (2) engaged industry partners, (3) our teaming and project assignment strategy, (4) flexibility to address curricular concerns in program, and (5) building a corporate-like environment within the classroom. Early indicators of success include formal feedback from industry partners, job placement of our program graduates, and feedback from our program’s industrial advisory board. 

AU  - Lori M Houghtalen
AU  - Timothy Kennedy P.E.
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CY  - Salt Lake City, Utah
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