Capstone Projects
What is a Senior Design Capstone?
The Senior Design Capstone for Industrial and Systems Engineering is a collaborative and practical experience for both the students and the sponsor.
In this capstone course, teams of 3-4 ISE students will be assigned a real-world problem posed by an industry sponsor. The students will collaborate with the sponsor and their teammates to address the problem using their skills in statistics and data analysis, probability and simulation, operation research and optimization, inventory and manufacturing planning, work design and human factors, six-sigma, lean methods. Over the course of a semester, students will work together to create a viable solution to the problem.
What is a sponsor?
A sponsor is an industry client located in southeast Ohio. Each client identifies a problem within their company or organization and an ISE student team will be assigned to address that problem over the course of a semester. In the past, student teams have worked to address problems involving test facility flow analysis, product measurements, product flow efficiency, operator ergonomics, maintenance cost, restaurant customer flow an deficiencies, emergency department analysis, and many others.
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What should a sponsor expect?
Throughout the semester, students will work closely with the sponsor to achieve their goals. Students are expected to report to the sponsor on a weekly basis. The teams will follow a strict timeline and produce a PDR report in the middle of the semester and FDR at the end of the semester. You will have input throughout the process.
Questions? Contact the course instructor, Dušan Šormaz.