Focus Area: Senior Design

This Senior Design Program seeks designs and proposals to construct, test, and evaluate a product or system. The construction and test phases will follow in the EGGN 492 course during the following semester. The major deliverable for this semester is a design report or proposal that includes a complete design description with construction and test plan; including estimated costs (budget), assembly and component drawings where appropriate, engineering calculations to demonstrate that a factor of safety has been employed, a schedule and indication of the division of labor among the project team members.Overview of Senior Design. Etiam enim nisi, rhoncus ac, tempor vel, mattis accumsan, erat. Ut dictum tortor eu arcu. Suspendisse faucibus, lacus a consequat imperdiet, orci nisi fringilla massa, ut dapibus elit dolor at orci. Suspendisse tempus, pede in pretium suscipit, metus mi tristique sapien.

The CSM Engineering Division Capstone Design Course is a creative multidisciplinary design experience emerging from combined efforts in civil, electrical, mechanical, and environmental specialties in engineering. Within the engineering community it is widely believed that many of the challenges which are facing practicing engineers, now and in the 21st century, can best be met by exploiting multidisciplinary approaches. This Program in Senior Capstone Engineering Design has been established to demonstrate the value and ingenuity which can be derived from cooperative design efforts among traditional engineering disciplines.

The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) defines engineering design:
"Engineering design is the process of devising a system, component or process to meet desired needs. It is a decision-making process (often iterative), in which the basic sciences, mathematics, and engineering sciences are applied to convert resources optimally to meet a stated objective. Among fundamental elements of the design process are the establishment of objectives and criteria, synthesis, analysis, construction, testing and evaluation."

This course has been designed to comply with the ABET guidelines that require the engineering design component of a curriculum to include at least some of the following features:
• development of student creativity
• use of open-ended problems
• development and use of design methodology
• formulation of design problem statements and specifications
• consideration of alternative solutions
• feasibility considerations
• detailed system descriptions

Further, it is essential to include a variety of realistic constraints such as:
• economic factors
• safety
• reliability
• aesthetics
• ethics
• social impact