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Senior design teams look for projects before the start of each semester. The student teams are responsible for selecting their own projects. To have your project considered, you may submit a potential project via this website. You may also wish to follow up by contacting your faculty contact or the senior design coordinator. The first step is for the project client to identify a need or opportunity. For example, one year Rich's felt their delivery truck fleet could have better maintenance scheduling; the |
 This Spring 2008 team worked with Professor Julie Swann to came up with a plan to allocate resources for the prevention of malaria. |
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| downtown Marriott felt the need for a more consistent, fair and profitable parking policy; Selig Chemical saw the need to organize their warehouse more efficiently; the Atlanta Journal and Constitution felt its wastage of newsprint could be reduced by a few tons per year; the Bairstow Distributing Company realized they needed to computerize their inventory system; and Rollins Security found their service people could travel a lot less if their trips were better scheduled. When students contacted these enterprises, they found enthusiastic potential project clients. ISyE students are well prepared to design maintenance schedules, routing and delivery systems, warehouse layouts and materials handling systems, waste control programs, and requirements and specifications for information systems. They can apply operations research, simulation, statistics, and other technical tools to a wide variety of problems, and they can back up their design choices with thorough economic analysis. Review the section on Submitted Projects to see the variety of projects the student teams have tackled. Meet with the student team to explore possibilities, and determine, loosely, what kind of beneficial project could reasonably be performed by a neophyte consulting group of industrial and systems engineers -- usually six students working for about 130 to 160 hours, each, over four months. Assign a responsible technical or managerial person to give the team appropriate guidance, operations and economic information, and plant access. During the semester, this person will need to spend approximately 2-4 hours per week interacting with team members. Also make arrangements for an appropriate level of management to receive and consider the team’s formal proposal, interim report, tentative results, conclusions, and final design. |
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Project Requirements Senior design projects are typically generated from local companies and institutions. This accessibility provides students the opportunity to assess each project in detail and to be able ask questions and perform site visits. Under normal circumstances, project sites are within an hour’s drive of the Georgia Tech campus. Teams have worked on projects far from the Tech campus, but only under exceptional circumstances. Many enterprises in the Atlanta area have cases that can be successfully studied and solved by a small group of industrial engineering students working for experience and academic credit instead of money. Our hundreds of “satisfied customers” include a majority of the well-known businesses in the Atlanta area, and other enterprises such as hospitals and various local city and county government departments.
There are three main requirements that a senior design project must meet:
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