Multidisciplinary Capstone Project for Engineering

Teaching engineering design through senior project or capstone engineering courses has increased in recent years. In this paper we present the description of a multidisciplinary capstone senior design course that uses mobile robotics as the central theme for the projects. This course is offered for the Electrical Engineering Technology (EET) and Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) majors at Georgia Southern University. The main goals for the course are: a) to give students the opportunity to participate in the development of a complete engineering project experience b) to take an active part as a member of a multidisciplinary team c) to develop scheduling, evaluation and control strategies in order to assure the successful completion of the project and d) to be able to understand and apply the professional aspects of the engineering project related to ethics, environmental, safety and sustainability issues.