ME4054 Design Projects

Welcome to the senior capstone design course in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Teams of four to ten students work for 15 weeks (one semester) on an engineering design project sponsored internally or by a local company. Projects are advised by mechanical engineering faculty and by engineers from sponsoring companies. The semester culminates in the ME4054 Design Show where the teams show off their work in a public forum and are evaluated by a professional jury. The objective of the course is for students to learn engineering design by experiences a real-world design project. A second objective is to return value to the client through the delivery of a completed design.