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College of Engineering
Capstone

Final Project

The project is refined to optimize performance. The team determines how well the project meets the requirements through performance testing.

Final Project Executive Summary


NO TWO PAGE LIMIT. SAY WHAT NEEDS TO BE SAID AND REFERENCE THE DESIGN PACKAGE AS NEEDED.

Project Title: [Your Project Title]
Team Name: [Your Team Name]
Date: [Submission Date]

1. Project Overview

Appropriate (brief) background of the project. Discuss why the project is important and the the key success measures for the project. Discuss the project's value proposition based on known costs, savings, impacts, etc.

2. Brief Description of Design

Briefly describe the design in words and with appropriate top-level pictures. The description should not be a detailed definition but should reference artifacts that are included in your Final Design Package. The description should provide an overview of the design that will make it easy for the reader to understand the details found in the artifacts.

3. Summary of Final Performance

Summarize how well the design has been demonstrated to perform compared with the key success measures and any other metrics. Refer to appropriate testing and analysis artifacts as needed.

4. Conclusion and recommendations

Evaluate the success and outcome of your project. Discuss recommendations for future work by your sponsor or another Capstone team. This could include implementation/integration recommendations if the project will not require further development. Are there any additional things that the sponsor should know about or that would be helpful to them?

5. Content Summary of Final Design Package

This section of the Executive Summary should include a list of the contents of your Final Design Package and a brief (one sentence) summary of what the purpose of the artifact is.

Final Design Package

Your Final Design Package should include all the documentation that will be transferred to your sponsor to understand all your work, be able to recreate all of your designs, and move forward to the next steps. Anything that would be useful or needed by someone who picks up your project and continues development should be included in your Final Design Package. You should have coordinated with your sponsor to ensure that you have included all documentation that they will need and in the format that works for them. Specific documentation (in no particular order) might include the following based on your project:

  • polished engineering drawings (assembly and component drawings)
  • System architecture
  • API documentation
  • BOM
  • SBOM
  • well-documented code in a Github repository (access provided to sponsor)
  • test results that will be useful to the sponsor
  • setup manual
  • operations manual
  • maintenance and support document

This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list. You must consider what is applicable for your project and your sponsor’s needs.

Presentation

  • Status of complete project, including business case
  • Status of final design package (Does design package include what sponsor said they needed?)
  • Critical open issues
  • Conclusion and Recommendations
  • What will be shown at design fair?
  • Plan for remainder of semester

Grading Criteria

Executive Summary

(150 points)

1. (20 points) Overall professionalism, grammatically correct, make sense overall, artifacts included in a logical order

2. (10 points) Overview

  • Has the team thoughtfully presented the purpose of the project and its impact to the sponsor/larger community?
  • Did the team present the value proposition and the impact of the project based on their project final design, including changes to original assumptions and expectations?

3. (30 points) Description of Design

  • Is the summary of the design clear?
  • Does it make sense?
  • Are appropriate artifacts referenced?
  • Are visuals included if they would aid in the description of the project? 

4. (30 points) Summary of Final Performance

  • Has the team addressed the KSMs and whether or not those have been met?
  • Has the team been transparent about final performance?
  • Does the team show there has been adequate testing to validate their results?
  • Are appropriate artifacts referenced?

5. (30 points) Conclusion and Recommendations

  • Has the team thoughtfully considered the value of their work?
  • Has the team provided thoughtful recommendations for future work (or a discussion of how the work will be integrated if there is no further development)?

6. (20 points) Content Summary of Final Design Package

  • Is a content list of the final design package included?
  • Is there a summary of the contents?

Presentation

(50 points)

1. (5 points) Overall professionalism, everyone on time and dressed professionally, slides are clean and clear

2. (10 points) Project Status

  • Is the project complete? If not, is it clear what is left to do?
  • Is there a plan in place to complete the project?
  • Did the team meet the needs of the sponsor in terms of the value proposition?

3. (5 points) Content Summary of Final Design Package

  • Is it clear what the team plans to include in the Final Design Package?
  • Has the team verified with the sponsor that the Final Design Package, when complete and refined, will meet their needs?

4. (10 points) Status of Final Design Package

  • Does the final design package include what the sponsor said they need?
  • What still needs to be completed/revised in the final design package?
  • Is there a clear plan to complete the final design package?

5. (5 points) Design Fair Plan

  • Does the team have a plan for what will be shown at the Design Fair?

6. (15 points) Conclusion and Recommendations

  • Does the team understand the significance of their work and how it impacts their sponsor?
  • Did the team provide validation to support their conclusions about results?
  • Has the team provided thoughtful recommendations for future work?