Capstone Design Portfolios
The capstone design sequence provides extensive assessment data. Students are judged on their ability to formulate and implement a practical solution to a realistic in-depth engineering design problem, including practical constraints. In order to accomplish this task, students must understand the problem at hand, propose solutions and verify their appropriateness through theory and/or experimentation (including analysis and interpretation of data), realize a solution using available modern engineering tools, document and present the solution, and justify and defend decisions. The ability to work on a team, with each team member having a particular role and responsibilities, is an essential part of the experience which supporting several outcomes. Examples of past reports can be reached through the links below.
Fall 2003
Design for a Wireless Keyboard Adapter
Wireless Rotating Message Board
Spring 2004
Carburetor Icing Risk Detection System
Equilateral - A Mobile Sensor Unit
Microwave Distance Measuring System
Power Supply Load Analysis Tool
Remote Child's Car Seat Alert System
Wireless Link for EM Workstation
Fall 2004
Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning
Transistor Noise Measurement and Characterization Instrumentation
Spring 2005
Luggage Unit Monitoring Project
XY Positioning Table and Wireless Communication System
Fall 2005
Portfolio Evaluations
In order to assess students’ oral communications ability, oral communications in the capstone design course have been evaluated by members of the OSU Speech department. Evaluators attended required oral presentations in the ECEN capstone design course (ECEN 4023). Teams were evaluated on their overall impression as well as purpose, climate/credibility, transmission/eye contact/elocution, reception/awareness/communication barriers, and organization/visual aid on a 1-5 scale using a rubric. The rubric is used with 1 representing an unacceptable presentation, 2 = marginally acceptable, 3 = competent, 4 = above average, and 5 = superior presentation.
In order to assess students’ ability to communicate in writing, written project reports from the capstone design course are given to an independent panel of faculty and graduate students from the OSU Technical Writing department. The reports are evaluated using a rubric with a scale of 0-3. Briefly a score of 0 = fails to demonstrate competency; 1 = indicates a low level of competency; 2 = indicates an acceptable level of competency; 3 = indicates a high level of competency.
Data for the results can be accessed through the Oral & Written Results Data page.
Graphs of the results can be reached through the Oral & Written Results Graph page.