Abu-Mulaweh, H. I., & Abu-Mulaweh, N. (2018, June), Case Study: Industry-sponsored Mechanical Engineering Capstone Senior Design Projects  Paper presented at 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah. 10.18260/1-2--30178

\bibitem{asee_peer_30178}
  Abu-Mulaweh, H. I., \& Abu-Mulaweh, N. (2018, June), \emph{Case Study: Industry-sponsored Mechanical Engineering Capstone Senior Design Projects}
  Paper presented at 2018 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah.
  10.18260/1-2--30178

Hosni I. Abu-Mulaweh and Nusaybah Abu-Mulaweh.  "Case Study: Industry-sponsored Mechanical Engineering Capstone Senior Design Projects".  2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah, 2018, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2018.  https://strategy.asee.org/30178 Internet.  28 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_30178}
  Hosni I. Abu-Mulaweh and Nusaybah Abu-Mulaweh.
  "Case Study: Industry-sponsored Mechanical Engineering Capstone Senior Design Projects".
  \emph{2018 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah, 2018, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2018.
  https://strategy.asee.org/30178 Internet.  28 May, 2024

@INPROCEEDINGS{asee_peer_30178
author = "Hosni I. Abu-Mulaweh and Nusaybah Abu-Mulaweh"
title = "Case Study: Industry-sponsored Mechanical Engineering Capstone Senior Design Projects"
booktitle = "2018 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition "
year = "2018"
month = "June"
address = "Salt Lake City, Utah"
publisher = "ASEE Conferences"
note = {https://strategy.asee.org/30178}
number = {10.18260/1-2--30178}
}

TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Capstone senior design project at our mechanical engineering program is accomplished during the senior year and spans two semesters. In the first semester, the problem statement is formulated and the basic conceptual designs are generated and then evaluated. The conceptual design that solves the problem best is then selected and a complete and detailed design is generated by the end of the first semester. In the second semester, a prototype of the finished design is built, tested and evaluated.
The cost of constructing a prototype of a finished design is usually high. This is especially true when the design projects deal with practical and real life problems. For small undergraduate mechanical engineering program with limited resources, such as ours, the high cost of building these projects tends to cause problems and hampers the selection of good quality capstone senior design projects. This problem becomes more pressing when the senior design projects are multidisciplinary in order comply with the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) accreditation criteria, which require that graduates of engineering programs possess an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams. To overcome this problems, our mechanical engineering program has a strong partnership with the local and regional industry over the years which benefited both parties. Local and regional industries propose and sponsor projects (problems that they would like them solved) for our senior design students. Each senior design team is advised by a faculty member and a point man from the company who is usually an engineer.
The aim of this paper is to present how this relation or partnership has developed, discuss the degree of involvement of the industry-sponsors and their role during the course of the design project, and brief description of the industry-sponsored design projects that we had in the 2016/2017 academic year.  

AU  - Hosni I. Abu-Mulaweh
AU  - Nusaybah Abu-Mulaweh
CY  - Salt Lake City, Utah
DA  - 2018/06/23
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Case Study: Industry-sponsored Mechanical Engineering Capstone Senior Design Projects
UR  - https://strategy.asee.org/30178
DO  - 10.18260/1-2--30178
ER  -