Engineering Technology Capstone Project Preparation and Proposal

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Offers students an opportunity to apply the steps of the engineering design process and develop a comprehensive written engineering project proposal. Includes a review of the engineering design process from problem statement to prototype fabrication and testing. Working closely with the instructor, students are asked to identify a technological need of actual interest for local companies, communities, or students’ workplace and to follow the engineering design process. Students document the marketing, patent, and literature search for prior art, customer/engineering specifications, brainstorming process to generate feasible solutions, most viable solution selection process, and detailed labor and materials budget for actual execution of the solution to be completed in GET 4850 .