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Arizona State University Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

Senior capstone project showcase, friday, april 29th 2022 9:30am - 3:00pm mst.

Welcome to the Capstone Showcase!

For the last 2 semesters students majoring in Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Systems Engineering, Engineering Management and Informatics have been working hard on industry and faculty sponsored projects to solve real-world problems. Please explore, and feel free to engage our students and learn more about their projects by joining them online through the Zoom links.

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The ASU Capstone Program offers students an opportunity to collaborate with industry partners and faculty on innovative projects that apply real-world solutions to today's challenges. Whether you're a student looking to submit your proposal or a company interested in partnering with us, we are here to guide you through the process. Let's create, innovate, and inspire together.

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Capstones cultivate high-tech opportunities for students and industry

by Learning and Teaching Hub Aug 31, 2020 Latest news

Since its inception eight years ago, the engineering capstone program at The Polytechnic School has made an indelible impression on its graduating seniors, alumni, sponsors and the Valley of the Sun as a whole. A pillar of the school’s engineering curriculum, it has become a rite of passage for seniors as they transition into engineering professionals.

Sponsored capstone projects, or eProjects, give students the opportunity to develop new solutions or improve upon existing engineering solutions based on their industry sponsor’s needs. Backed by engineering faculty and sponsor mentorship, students use the knowledge and skills they’ve learned throughout their undergraduate experience to execute their project. The result directly reflects on their grade and if they graduate. Industry sponsors use the eProject process to gain outside-of-the-box engineering solutions, intellectual property to implement into their company’s operations and as a recruitment tool.

Honeywell Aerospace , one of the valley’s cornerstone aerospace and defense organizations, has sponsored up to eight projects every year for the last several years and has hired many seniors along the way.

“The program is very hands-on and team-based, which aligns well with the real-world business challenges that our young engineers face, so they arrive poised to contribute on day one,” says Rich Barlow, a recently retired senior director for Honeywell and prior industry advisory board chair with The Polytechnic School. “The valley and southern Arizona businesses have really benefited from the quick contributions that these students have provided to their employers. It’s been a win-win!”

EProjects are effective because they mutually benefit the student and the sponsor in various ways. However, the school’s deep-rooted corporate partnerships coupled with a technology-heavy regional advantage and proven track record make the program even more impactful for everyone involved. More than 75 companies have sponsored The Polytechnic School capstone projects since the program launched, and, on average, more than 98% of projects are sponsored each capstone sequence.

Two students demonstrating their capstone project at the fall 2019 Innovation Showcase.

An information technology senior sharing her poster at the spring 2018 Innovation Showcase.

Two aviation students demonstrating their capstone project at the spring 2019 Innovation Showcase.

A Ping-sponsored capstone project called the Range Roamer on display at the fall 2019 Innovation Showcase.

Newcomer Summit Automation sponsored four teams last year and anticipates a long and fruitful future with The Polytechnic School’s engineering capstone program. CEO Patrick Gruetzmacher recently hired three students based on the high level of work they contributed to their eProject.

“The students I hired are awesome — simple as that,” Gruetzmacher says. “The way this program is managed is well thought out. My students figured out a way to think outside of the box, work around barriers and complete the project successfully, which speaks volumes for the engineering department at The Polytechnic School.”

Collins Aerospace has sponsored various projects over the past few years and find immense value in the coaching aspect of the program.

“Our Collins engineers have assigned real problems to the student related to our products and have helped the students refine and build upon their ideas throughout each semester, giving us the opportunity to mentor and develop the next generation of engineers,” says Rebecca Stoner, The Polytechnic School engineering industry advisory board member and Collins Aerospace senior director of engineering.

Engineering Professor and undergraduate Program Chair John Rajadas says, “Year after year, it’s amazing to witness the switch from student to professional. The program equips students with the experience to join the industry with cutting edge skills, a multi-disciplinary outlook and, above all, the aptitude and confidence to work in a professional environment.”

Mechanical engineering alumnus Alexander Razman is now a manufacturing engineer at Lockheed Martin , the company that sponsored his capstone project.

“Capstone was one of the few classes that allowed me to experience how to properly interact with a stakeholder,” he says. “It bridged the gap between an educational setting and an industry environment.”

Northrop Grumman Systems Engineer and engineering alumnus Aaron Dolgin remembers his capstone project fondly because it was one of the most comprehensive capstone projects in The Polytechnic School history.

“Managing a capstone project gave me the tools I needed to succeed in my industry roles,” he says. “It will be a project I remember forever.”

Tim Beatty has been the associate director of the business engagement catalyst at The Polytechnic School for two years after a more than 35-year industry career.

“When industry partners challenge and guide our seniors through real-world engineering demands and share their experience and wisdom along the way, it encourages students to dissect and understand the issue at hand and develop a solution that is driven by a real value proposition,” Beatty says. “It helps transition our students into contributing industry professionals — the engineers of tomorrow — and there is nothing more important than that in today’s world.”

“Connecting the classroom and real-world organizations to design leading edge sustainable solutions”

Master of sustainability students + world-class faculty + your organization = win/win relationship for sustainability outcomes

ASU sustainability students tackle hotel food waste

Graduating Master of Sustainability Solutions students from the School of Sustainability showcased their innovative solutions for real-world sustainability challenges at the capstone project presentation held at the Walton Center for Planetary Health this spring. This project partnered with Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel, represented by ASU alumnus Michael Ortiz.

What are the School of Sustainability capstone projects?

Capstone projects are a critical part of the School of Sustainability’s applied graduate degrees. These projects pair organizations with teams of graduate students, under the guidance of ASU faculty, to solve sustainability challenges. Sponsor organizations benefit by having dynamic, skilled and professional graduate students conduct substantial research and develop customized solutions. Students gain applied experience which prepares them for success in their careers and signals their value to employers.

Teams are composed of approximately four students each. These teams collaborate directly with their project sponsor while working through a course structure led by ASU sustainability faculty. The course and project flow usually include these elements: 

• Competitive Landscape Analysis
• Assessing Best Practices
• Stakeholder Mapping
• SWOT Analysis
• Tailoring recommendations and implementation plans to the sponsor organization

What kind of organizations can participate in the program and benefit from a sustainability team? 

The capstone program strives for a balance of partners representing local and multinational businesses, governments and government agencies, non-profit organizations and educational institutions. 

What type of projects does the program take on? 

• Sustainability Strategy
• Sustainability Innovation 
• Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Assessment
• Urban Agriculture
• Circular Economy
• Sustainable Purchasing
• Assessing Material Impacts
• Waste Reduction, Reuse and Recycling
• Sustainable Investing and Finance
• Supply Chain Sustainability, Equity and Risk
• Energy Efficiency

There are three project windows during the year

Active dates for capstone courses are outlined in the table below. The project inventory for each class is finalized two months before the session’s start date.

Program details

Capstone projects are the culminating experience in the Master of Sustainability Leadership (MSL) and the Master of Sustainability Solutions (MSUS) degree programs. Projects do not require any financial investment by the sponsor.

The MSL degree is fully online and focused on professionals who are often leaders in their own organizations. The focus is on organizational leadership and change management through the lens of sustainability.

The MSUS degree is full-time, in-person on the Tempe campus. Students master sustainability theory and methods and learn how to develop and apply practical solutions to sustainability problems. They are prepared to work in a variety of fields.

More Information

Download samples of the project description forms for the MSUS 13-week program and the MSL 7-week program .

Contact program manager Charles Reeves at [email protected] for more information on how to get involved with the capstone projects program.

Past partners

Cities of Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tempe, Gilbert, Peoria, and Mesa; Colgate Palmolive; Unlimited Potential; Leukemia and Lymphoma Society; Birla Carbon; Fairmont Princess Hotel Scottsdale; Carbon Disclosure Project; BWD Strategic; and UNIQA Insurance (Czech Republic and Slovakia)

• 1-5 selected final products from projects. “Curated” projects that can be seen by the public.
• Mini case studies of projects. 2 sentences to 2 paragraphs.

See all graduate programs within the School of Sustainability

Senior projects prepare engineering students for workforce

Fulton Schools Capstone Showcase demonstrates projects beyond the classroom

The Smart Pollution Analysis and Real-time Knowledge System, or SPARKS, team presents their project results at the Capstone Showcase. They analyzed air quality and pollution across Tempe in a project sponsored by Microchip Technology. Photo by Erika Gronek/ASU

Graduating seniors from across the  Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering  at Arizona State University displayed their senior capstone projects at the spring 2023  Fulton Schools Capstone Showcase .

The biannual event gives students the opportunity to show off their capstone projects, which helped them gain real-world experience developing innovative solutions to societal problems and prepare to enter the workforce.

The event on April 26 showcased approximately 260 projects from 1,200 students pursuing a range of degrees, including electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, materials science and engineering, computer science, computer systems engineering, informatics, industrial engineering, engineering management and biomedical engineering. The students represent the  School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence , the  School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering  and the  School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy , all part of the Fulton Schools.

Students were joined by faculty members, peers, industry sponsors, alumni and other guests to celebrate the completion of their projects and present their findings and results.

Teams worked collaboratively over the past two semesters to carry out ideas from initial designs through prototype fabrication, as well as testing and evaluation to validate their solutions. The students’ projects also considered issues related to ethics, economics, sustainability, security, safety and professional best practices in their design solutions.

“Students are getting experience in a low-risk environment where they’re able to develop professional and technical skills that aren’t part of our curriculum but are necessary for them to be marketable in their careers,” said  Ryan Meuth , an associate teaching professor in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence who also leads the Capstone Showcase and coordinates the capstone projects for computer science and computer systems engineering students.

Meuth notes that the event acts as a pipeline for students to find jobs after graduation. According to Meuth, one-third of participating students from the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence receive job offers at the Capstone Showcase event.

Analyzing air pollution

Computer systems engineering students Amber Kahklen, Carter Dunn, David Mangoli and Hunter White, along with computer science students Maxwell Calhoun and Tanishq Mor, completed a capstone project with industry sponsor  Microchip Technology , a provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash IP solutions.

The students addressed air quality and pollution in Tempe, creating an array of air sensors that test for particulate matter size, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, temperature and humidity parameters. Six sensors were placed across ASU’s Tempe campus to collect data, which the team then analyzed to identify areas that had the highest levels of pollution and what contributed to those conditions.

“With this data, we can identify the factors that contribute the most to air pollution across Tempe and make predictions to improve the problems,” Kahklen said. “We hope these sensors can be used to gauge traffic conditions and see what is contributing to air pollution, whether it’s stalled traffic, construction or another factor.”

The project, titled Smart Pollution Analysis and Real-time Knowledge System, or  SPARKS , also considered the environmental impact of their findings.

“Sustainability and environmentalism were top priorities in our project,” Dunn said. “We were interested in bringing air quality data to light because it can be hard to access that information otherwise.”

The students worked with technical marketing engineers at Microchip Technology, including Ross Satchell, Toby Sinkinson and Nate Thompson.

“We gave the students a lot of creative freedom within the project, so they had to work together and define a lot of the information themselves, going through academic papers to figure out what sensors to use and which atmospheric pollutants to be concerned about,” Satchell said. “The students are always wonderful to work with. This is the fourth Capstone Showcase that I’ve been involved in.”

For Satchell, a Fulton Schools alumnus, participating as an industry sponsor is a full-circle moment. He participated as a student in 2018 and was hired by Microchip Technology because of the event. Sinkinson is also a Fulton Schools alumnus and participated in the Capstone Showcase in 2022, where he was hired by Satchell.

Sinkinson and Satchell are eager to find an outlet to move the students’ SPARKS innovation forward and find a real-world application for the project.

“We go to trade shows often and engage in demos for industry members to show what our technologies can do,” Sinkinson said. “We’re hoping to pitch this project to local governors and see how we can work together to apply this research to sequencing traffic lights and analyzing the baseline of current air quality.”

The spring 2023 Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering Capstone Showcase took place on April 26 in the Memorial Union on ASU’s Tempe campus. Around 260 teams of Fulton Schools students presented their senior capstone projects to other students, faculty members, alumni and industry mentors and sponsors. 

Photo by Erika Gronek/ASU

Students present their findings to a Capstone Showcase attendee. The event affords graduating seniors an opportunity to showcase their research to industry sponsors and mentors and helping secure job offers.

The Automated Heat Sink Fastener team demonstrates their project at the Capstone Showcase. The team worked with industry sponsor Intel on a prototype to improve a step in the semiconductor manufacturing process. Their efforts won them one of two School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy Best in Showcase awards.

In addition to displaying posters about their capstone projects, many students showcased physical components of their work for guests to try out in person, like this virtual reality headset.

A group of students poses for a photo at the Capstone Showcase. The event gives seniors an opportunity to show off their solutions to real-world problems and prepare for the workforce before graduation.

Automating semiconductor manufacturing processes

Mechanical engineering seniors Daniel Adamo, Sameer Naguib, Kelly Tolman, Kayla Johnson and Adam Griffith also collaborated with an industry sponsor for their capstone project. The team worked with  Intel  to improve a step in their circuit board manufacturing process, developing a  prototype  to automate the fastening of the heat sink to the board.

This crucial step is typically done manually with a torque driver. Automating the process increases the step’s accuracy during manufacturing.

The heat sink is a vital component in hardware, helping cool circuit boards as they generate heat during operation. Managing their temperature achieves optimal performance.

“When Intel approached us with this project, they had an automatic tool to help with this step, but it only used a single motor. It was facing an issue where it was not torquing all the individual screws the same amount,” Naguib said. “Our prototype has four separate drivers that allow us to determine programmatically if all the screws are torqued to the right specifications.”

Adamo said his team contributed improvements beyond adding more motors.

“We also included a proximity sensor, which can sense metal within five millimeters and is the most pivotal part of our design,” Adamo said. “A separate motor raises the boards up to the drivers, and the proximity sensor sees the Intel product, communicates to the motor to stop, delays a couple of seconds and then activates the main drivers to operate once it has identified the correct position.”

As former Intel interns, Naguib and Adamo have experience working closely with the company and understand throughput is a top priority.

“They want to make sure products are moving as fast as possible while maintaining the same level of quality,” Adamo said. “This prototype can help simplify the microelectronics manufacturing process while making it faster and more precise.”

Award-winning research

The most compelling student presentations and their associated projects were also honored with Best in Showcase awards and a $500 cash prize, funded by an anonymous Fulton Schools alumnus. One project per school received an award, with the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy splitting its prize money between two projects that tied.

The Automated Heat Sink Fastener project was one of those two. The other winning project was the  Dual Powered Energy Water Purifier .

Led by team members Seth Randall, Wilson Ooi, Tasnia Hossain, Riley Ober, Daniel Martinez and Mauricio Pinon Molina, the project displayed a water purification system powered by two sources: electrical and solar irradiance. The team’s prototype purifies water using an evaporation and condensation cycle.

The School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence Best in Showcase award went to a team consisting of Zachary Smith, Elizabeth Arnold and Anna Mendenhall, who developed a vehicle autopilot program to use with the  ASU Luminosity Lab ’s pre-existing hybrid electric vehicle. The goal of the project, called  Trident One , was to develop a vehicle autopilot program capable of  Level 3 automation , meaning the system can perform all driving tasks for the vehicle while enabling the driver to take over when requested.

The winners of the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering Best in Showcase award included seniors Dhrasti Dalal, Alan Ramsey, Derek Smetanick, Ashley Tse and Shaun Victor. Their project,  Developing an Implantable Electrode to Treat Spasmodic Dysphonia , was sponsored by  Mayo Clinic . The team created an implantable electrode for the laryngeal nerve to treat a condition called spasmodic dysphonia, a neurological disorder that causes laryngeal muscle spasms, resulting in irregular speech.

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Fall 2023 capstone projects produce electrical engineering solutions

by TJ Triolo | Dec 8, 2023 | News

Senior undergraduate students from the electrical engineering undergraduate programs in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering , part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, spend two semesters demonstrating the culmination of their education through a capstone project every year. To graduate, the students must spend their final year putting the skills they’ve learned to use solving a real-world problem.

One of the capstone teams also wins the Joseph and Sandra Palais Senior Design Award. The award, established by Professor Emeritus  Joseph Palais  and his wife, Sandra, honors a high-achieving electrical engineering project judged by a panel of participants anonymous to the students. The winning team receives a celebratory lunch and a cash prize.

Dec. 1 marked the day for students competing for the Palais Senior Design Award, along with all of the 25 total teams graduating in the Fall 2023 semester, to show off the projects they’d worked hard planning and building.

Improving pickleball players’ swings

One of the electrical engineering innovations on display was a sleeve for a pickleball paddle to help players improve their swing. The sleeve, for which development was overseen by industry mentor Kevin Berk of PURE Pickleball , slides over the bottom of a pickleball paddle and senses a swing’s strength, shows a corresponding value on a numerical display.

The value is then correlated to a pickleball coach’s instructions to swing to a certain strength level. Players using the sleeve can easily determine if they are swinging too harshly or softly.

Additionally, the sleeve device collects data from the paddle’s movements that players can compare to ideal movement data to evaluate where they can improve. In addition to improving players’ performance, the team aims to reduce injuries through the device.

“The leading injury in pickleball is ‘pickleball elbow,’ or tennis elbow where there’s too much pressure,” says Kristine Park, one of the capstone team’s members. “Having the display prevents you from using this unnecessary force that can cause those injuries.”

Through the project, participants learned and used skills such as how to design a printed circuit board, software programming and 3D printing. The team members involved say the sleeve could be expanded to other sporting equipment as well such as baseball bats and tennis racquets, leaving the door open for future possibilities.

Finding the center of the galaxy  

While the pickleball paddle sleeve exemplified the use of electrical engineering for sports products, another team set their eyes on applying their skills to the stars.

Using a variety of odds and ends, including a vehicle axle as an antenna base, the team members built antennas to detect hydrogen emission frequencies in an effort to find the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

Hydrogen emissions give off radio frequencies, and the antennas the team built detect and quantify them. A specific frequency range means the hydrogen emissions are particularly strong, and that direction leads to the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

While hobbyist astronomists often pay upwards of $200 for antennas to detect hydrogen emissions, the capstone team’s designs cost as little as $60 to build using a variety of parts, including a car axle as the base of one antenna.

Palais Senior Design Award winner looks to make computer use more accessible

Among those competing for the Palais Senior Design Award, ultimately the winning team was one who’d dubbed themselves Team Sticky.

The team took its name from the project the members completed: a low-cost Bluetooth-enabled joystick for quadriplegics to operate computers.

The experience of one team member, David Bangean, inspired the project. While an electrical engineering student six years ago, Bangean became paralyzed from the neck down.

Since then, he’s learned how to use tools to work on a computer, including a joystick that can be moved with the mouth to position a cursor arrow and interact with the interface. While the joystick is an existing technology, the team decided to build its model more compact than dominant designs for portability. By blowing into the joystick or sipping on it, a pressure sensor distinguishes one movement of air from another and uses distinct air movements for right and left clicks.

Additionally, most existing joysticks are expensive at a cost of many hundreds of dollars. Some can even cost more than $1,000, making them cost-prohibitive for individuals with low incomes.

“We intended it to be very affordable and accessible, because we think it’s very important for everyone to have access to the same technology,” says team member Diana Leon.

Looking to the future, the team members already see ways to improve the design for mass production. Team Sticky hopes to make their joysticks available to the public through collaboration with industry on a large scale.

Learning valuable career skills

For Casmir Anyanwu, a member of the pickleball paddle sleeve team, his experience with the capstone project was a valuable one for his career.

“It’s the most job-like experience I’ve had so far,” Anyanwu says.

He learned how to work with a mentor and a team in a high-pressure situation while improving his skills to retrieve and research information.

For Eric Hornburg, a member of the antenna-building team, the capstone project helped further his capabilities in his job working at General Atomics , which develops technology for aviation, energy, national defense and more.

“Most of us here have jobs already,” Hornburg says. “I’ve been working in tech and aviation for 20 years. I’m going to continue to increase my potential.”

Team Sticky used the experience to hone their communication and project management skills, taking advantage of Discord ’s abilities to set up a variety of tasks and channels within their chat group in the platform.

Team member Larry Stephens found the experience insightful into how to work with others.

“I think this class is great to prepare you for after graduation,” Stephens says. “A lot of the time, you have to work on cross-disciplinary teams.”

He adds that he learned how to collaborate to work on both the hardware and software sides of a project, and he emphasized the importance of team members working well with one another to bring all the elements of an electronics project together.

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My experience learning about DNA Nanotechnology was outside of my undergraduate curriculum and opened up a sincere interest in molecular biology that continued past this project. Without the mentorship in doing this project, I would not be in a very technical and rewarding field that I’m in today in next-generation sequencing! I felt challenged, engaged, and had the opportunity to travel and explore more about science at the American Chemical Society’s conference in Miami, Florida. I really appreciated the extra attention from the faculty to complete a detailed project on something that truly sparked connections and interest to the skills I learned during my degree. It really helped my degree show me something tangible beyond scores.

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Contribute to this interdisciplinary laboratory dedicated to investigating how children report maltreatment and how these reports are investigated and prosecuted. Participate in various nationally funded research projects aimed at advancing child safety initiatives.

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ASU Public Health Technology Corps

Collaborate with health experts to learn how the industry integrates technology and design to enhance public health. Strengthen research, design, and data reporting skills, access networking opportunities, and foster professional growth. Join a community of innovative Sun Devils dedicated to driving positive change! 

ASU Lodestar Center Nonprofit Job Board

Updated daily, the ASU Lodestar Center Nonprofit Job Board is the go-to resource for those seeking nonprofit jobs, internships or new opportunities.

The American Gun Experience

Join the American Gun Experience for hands-on research evaluating the impact of firearms on U.S. society.

The New College Undergraduate Inquiry and Research Experiences program provides New College undergraduate students with opportunities to engage in meaningful research partnerships.