Asgill, A. B. (2020, June), Leveraging the Capstone Design Project to Foster Entrepreneurship and Address Real-world Problems  Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line . 10.18260/1-2--34922

\bibitem{asee_peer_34922}
  Asgill, A. B. (2020, June), \emph{Leveraging the Capstone Design Project to Foster Entrepreneurship and Address Real-world Problems}
  Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line .
  10.18260/1-2--34922

Austin B. Asgill P.E..  "Leveraging the Capstone Design Project to Foster Entrepreneurship and Address Real-world Problems".  2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line , 2020, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2020.  https://peer.asee.org/34922 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_34922}
  Austin B. Asgill P.E..
  "Leveraging the Capstone Design Project to Foster Entrepreneurship and Address Real-world Problems".
  \emph{2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line , 2020, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2020.
  https://peer.asee.org/34922 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Abstract 

The Senior Capstone Design Project course has traditionally been used to train students of engineering with practical skills and prepare them for real engineering life.  Engineering technology (ET) programs, on the other hand, have always claimed to offer hands-on, practical real-world engineering training for their students and graduates. This is usually achieved through structured laboratory based courses and project based learning courses throughout their curriculum.  In the EET program at __________ _____ University, the Capstone Design course experience was offered through a menu of project-based senior design courses that students got to choose from based on their specific electrical areas of interest. This served the program well for several years, but did not always offer the students a uniform design experience as that depended on the particular instructor(s) teaching those classes in a given semester.  As a result, the EET faculty came to the conclusion that in order to offer a more uniform experience to each cohort of students, it was best to offer a more traditional singular capstone design course taught by a single faculty member each semester. The focus of the new course is on addressing real-world problems and fostering the notion of entrepreneurship in the students. This would make the experience truly meaningful and more beneficial for the students in further preparing them for the real world of engineering. In this paper we examine some of the reasoning that went into the development of the new EET Senior Capstone Design Project course, as well as discuss some of the projects that were developed by the students during the first year of offering the new course.

Index Terms – Senior Capstone Design Project, Engineering Technology (ET)

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