Capstone Design

CU Denver engineering students in all five engineering departments (Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science) take a Capstone Design course during their senior year.  In this course, student teams design, build and test a new product, process or service.  

The teams consist of between 3-6 students (often interdisciplinary), and a faculty mentor. Teams implement a state-of-the-art Design Innovation (DI) process using an “Agile - Sprint” cadence. Projects have extensive engineering analysis and/or simulation and include prototypes to demonstrate feasibility.

Sponsors determine the focus for the design project and provide project funding. The CU Denver design team provides approximately a person-years’ worth of engineering design work. Sponsors retain the intellectual property.