ME 4054W Design Projects

Welcome to the capstone senior engineering design course in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus. In this course, teams of four to six undergraduate mechanical engineering students work for one semester on an engineering design project sponsored by a local company, entrepreneur or a University of Minnesota research lab. Project clients are engineers at the sponsoring companies or university faculty or research staff.

The objective of the course is for students to learn a structured engineering design process and to practice it by working on a real-world design project. A second objective is for students to use their engineering knowledge by applying it to an open-ended design challenge. A third objective is to return value to the project sponsor through the delivery of a completed design and prototype.