Capstone Seminar: A one-credit Hour Course Covering the Design Process Implementation

This Innovative Practice Work in Progress Paper describes a one-credit hour senior design seminar course. The course is taught concurrently with the actual Senior Capstone Design Experience I course. The development of this course is of a great importance of reminding students of the design process elements since the coverage of this topic in a typical engineering curriculum takes place in the freshman year. This helps students incorporating the design process elements while working on their actual capstone projects in their Senior Capstone Design Experience course. The instructor of the course approached students through picking a specific technology and introduced it during one lecture. Each team was required to find a potential problem that can be solved using this technology and provide statistics that show the importance of the problem. Afterward, the teams incorporated the design process elements in their proposed solution to the problem and pitched it to the instructor as a pretended investor. Individual assignments were also developed to ensure that all students are assessed based on individual and team effort. The paper discusses the need of the course, lectures' content, and assignments. In addition, it provides student feedback about the course, ABET related student outcomes along with their assessment artifacts and recommendation.