Preparing Engineers for Professional Practice (PEPP)
Purpose
Undergraduate engineering majors at UMass Amherst, UMass Dartmouth, and UMass Lowell complete a senior design project (two semester course) as a capstone to their degree. The purpose of this course is to give students skills in carrying out a project in a multidisciplinary team for a designated client, just as practicing engineers. This project requires the integration of skills developed throughout their undergraduate studies to solve the problems defined in the project.
Project Definition
To provide realism to this course, we invite UMass Chan Faculty to provide problem statements for the students to solve in this course. The problem statement will identify a pressing health care/laboratory problem, and if a project is selected, the faculty sponsor will be invited to help mentor the student team over the two semesters.
Key Dates
Problem statement due date: August 26th 2024
Course begins: September 3rd/4th 2024
Project selection: mid-September 2024
Initial solution proposal: end of Fall term (December 18th/20th 2024)
Final solution proposal: end of Spring term (May 8th/9th 2025)
Email questions and/or completed project proposals to: Rachael Sirianni, Director, BEAM, UMCCTS