All senior students in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering culminate their undergraduate educational experience with the Senior Design course. In Senior Design, students complete an intensive, semester-long, team-based engineering design

project. By the end of the semester, students
will learn how to:

Properly define and scope a problem;

Identify and analyze relevant factors;

Apply appropriate industrial engineering
methodologies and computational tools;

Generate and evaluate alternative
solutions; and

Improve their skills in:

 This Spring 2008 team worked with faculty
 advisor John Vande Vate on a project for
 Intel to develope cost-effective distribution
 strategies for a proposed ultra low-cost
 chip line

Technical writing,

Public speaking,

Working within a team, and

Project and time management.

Students work in teams of five to six individuals, with 20-30 student teams per semester. Teams work as unpaid consultants on well-defined real-world design problems faced by local, national, and international clients. Each team picks its project, but senior design faculty reserve the right to veto project proposals that do not appear to comply with the course objectives.

The Senior Design TeamBuilder is a web based meeting place for students. You can find other students working on Senior Design projects the same semester, with complimentary skillsets and schedules and in the same industry. Students who would like to use the TeamBuilder can join here.