Capstone Design Projects are done in fourth year and provide an opportunity for students to amalgamate all they have learned in their undergraduate degree and apply it to design a project that interests and inspires them.
Entrepreneurial opportunities
Students own the ideas and devices they create for the design competition and there are several pitch competitions that follow the Capstone Design Event where students can compete for funding to commercialize their devices. The creation of these projects often turns into an opportunity to create start-up companies. The Nanotechnology Engineering Program has historically had a high number of start-up companies stemming from their students' Capstone Design Projects. Some of these start-up companies include Suncayr, Voltera,and Scope Photonics.
This year two Nanotechnology Engineering teams won $10,000 each in the Norman Esch Pitch Competition using biomedical applications.
1st Place Winner: Moonlight Haptics
2nd Place Winners: CortiSolve
3rd Place Winners
About Capstone Design
Capstone team members enjoying the first in-person Capstone Design Event since the beginning of the pandemic. They are having fun posing in front of their design poster.
A student from Team 3 that won second place for their Capstone Design Project, CortiSolve, explains their biomedical device to an event-goer.
Team 6 proudly displayed their design poster, their device, and accompanying software.
A student explains her Capstone Design Project to an attendee of the Capstone Event.
Event-goers were delighted that a Lego Grogu was on display at the event.
Two students discuss their Capstone Design Project with interested event-goers.
Students check out the Capstone Design Posters.
A student explains his at-home breast health monitoring device designed to aid in the early detection and monitoring of breast cancer.
A team member demonstrates the functionality of her device.
Moonlight Haptics team member demonstrating their biomedical device. Pictured above are vibrating coin-sized motors that mimic vision through touch.
