Senior Design for Clients

All ISyE undergraduate seniors culminate their undergraduate educational experiences with a capstone course called Senior Design. In Senior Design, you are presented with an opportunity to work with a team of undergraduate students to provide your organization with a variety of innovative and creative solutions to a problem. Student teams work on well-defined, specific design projects to generate, evaluate, and communicate solutions to their client. Recent project summaries are available through the projects database. For more information about the Senior Design program, contact Senior Design Coordinator Dr. Dima Nazzal.

Project Requirements

Engineering Design
The project must involve a recommendation for change(s) to an existing system or the development of a new system and an economic analysis of the associated costs and benefits.
Magnitude
Each team member is expected to spend a minimum of 12 productive hours per week on the project for a total of 180 hours for the semester, which equates to a minimum of 1080 hours for a six-member team. The project’s scope must be consistent with this expectation.
Value
The value of the project to the client must be commensurate with the amount of time spent.
Methodology
The project must require the use of substantial industrial and systems engineering tools and methods learned in the curriculum.

Client Responsibilities

Identify a real need the organization is facing.
Ensure that there is significant design content in the proposed project; that is, the scope of the project must be such that a recommendation for a change to a system is made and there is demonstrated value for implementing the change, and that it has a significant impact on the organization.
Meet with the student team on the site at the facility to explore possibilities, and determine the scope of the project.
Assign a responsible technical or managerial person to give the team appropriate guidance, operations and economic information, and site access if needed. During the semester, this person will need to spend approximately 2-4 hours per week interacting with team members.
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.

Pre-senior Design Timeline

Summer 2023

April 24, Students submit Team composition, many students have already formed their teams and working on finding projects/clients.
May 30, Teams submit Client Notification memo, describing their client, the project motivation, potential opportunity, and connection to ISyE courses and methods.
June 26, Teams submit a preliminary proposal, 7-10 page document describing the client need, the current operation, the opportunities to address the client’s need, the information and data they need to gather to further develop their opportunities, the potential deliverables, the potential value to the client, and the link between the project and the IE curriculum.
July 19, Teams submit their revised preliminary proposals (if needed); teams rarely get a well-defined document on the first try. I usually meet with them after the first pre-proposal submission to help them develop their understanding of the current system and potential opportunities.

Senior Design Timeline

Tentative Fall 2023

Aug 21, Semester starts
Aug 28 - 31, Proposal presentations to faculty
Sept 5 - 8, Proposal presentations to client
Oct 16 - 20, Interim progress presentations to faculty
Oct 23 - 27, Interim progress presentations to client
Nov 15 - 21, Final presentations to faculty
Nov 30, Final report to faculty
Nov 27 - Dec 8, Final presentations and written reports to client
Dec 15, Semester ends - Deadline for submitting all deliverables and code to client

Senior Design Facts at a Glance

Projects

per year

3.3

Million

Average potential monetary value per client

Clients

per year

360

Students

per year

Faculty

per year

Steps For Project Submission

Projects can be submitted online.
- New clients are encouraged to meet with Program Coordinator, Dr. Dima Nazzal, prior to project submission. Necessary fields include: Organization, organization type, profile, and web address; first and last name of submitter, contact information of submitter; and how you learned about senior design projects. Examples can also be found on the website.
Project submissions are reviewed by the Program Coordinator prior to being published for student team selection.
Following project publication, companies should expect to be contacted by student teams with their resumes.
- Each team picks its project from the submitted projects that comply with the course objectives; if multiple teams pick your project, you can choose among them.

Submit A Project

Deadlines

Fall projects are completed mid-August through mid-December; ideal submission window for the fall semester project is March through May.
Spring projects are completed early January through early May; ideal submission window for the spring semester is July through September.

Sample Project Topics

Activity valuation
Capacity management
Customer service enhancement
Demand/price forecasting
Distribution network redesign
Energy usage reduction
Equipment replacement planning

Faculty layout/redesign
Flow management
Inventory planning
Manufacturing line/cell design
Materials handling
Money/capital management
Pricing strategy
Preventative maintenance scheduling

Process design/redesign
Production scheduling
Supply chain design
Technology integration
Vendor selection
Waste reduction
Workforce scheduling

View Previous ISyE Senior Design Capstone Projects

Giving Opportunities

For Permanent Endowment

Named Senior Design Program from $250,000 *
General Program Support from $25,000

For Current Operations

Senior Design Team Corporate Sponsorship from $5,000

* Naming rights are limited to non-organizational entities and must be approved by the Georgia Tech Name Committee.

Sponsor Benefits

Student recruiting and mentoring opportunities
Potential solution to your challenge - designed, built, and tested
Company logo displayed at McCamish Pavilion for Expo
Company logo displayed on Georgia Tech Capstone Design website

Fall 2022 Senior Design Winning Team

ISyE Senior Design Winning Team Fall 2022

Client	Semester	Assigned
Shepherd Center	Fall 2023	No
Department of Human Services	Fall 2023	No
Piedmont Atlanta Hospital	Fall 2023	No
Office of the Executive Vice President for Research (Georgia Tech)	Fall 2023	No
UPS Healthcare	Spring 2023	No
Floor and Decor	Spring 2023	No
Batchelor & Kimball, Inc.	Spring 2023	No
Floor and Decor	Spring 2023	Yes
EATON	Spring 2023	Yes
Steelcase Inc	Spring 2023	Yes
Nolan Transporation Group	Spring 2023	Yes
Winship Head & Neck Cancer Program @ Emory University Midtown Hospital	Spring 2023	Yes
Department of Human Services	Spring 2023	Yes
HD Supply	Spring 2023	Yes
Steelcase Inc.	Fall 2022	Yes
American Airlines	Fall 2022	Yes
Scientific Games	Fall 2022	Yes
Saia LTL Freight	Fall 2022	Yes
RAFB 402 CMXG	Spring 2023	Yes
Convoy	Fall 2022	Yes
UPS/Coyote Logistics	Fall 2022	Yes
Cox Communications Inc.	Fall 2022	Yes
Atlanta Humane Society	Fall 2022	Yes
Focus Brands	Fall 2022	Yes
Georgia tech Counseling Center	Fall 2022	Yes
Floor & Decor	Spring 2022	Yes
Stitch Fix	Spring 2022	Yes
Georgia Tech Office of Graduate Studies	Spring 2022	Yes
Papa John's International	Spring 2022	Yes

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