Montana State to showcase engineering students’ capstone projects Dec. 5

BOZEMAN - Montana State University engineering students will showcase their senior projects Thursday, Dec. 5, in Norm Asbjornson Hall on the MSU campus during the biannual Design Fair. Work by 52 students on 15 projects and 15 posters will be on display from 2 to 4 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

The Design Fair is a chance for students and the public to see the "capstone" projects that all seniors in the Norm Asbjornson College of Engineering complete as a requirement for earning their degrees. Many of the projects, which students design and build to address a specific need, are sponsored by private industry, while faculty members sponsor others to support their academic research. Each team undertakes projects with real-world constraints such as scheduling, cost, sustainability, manufacturability, and health and safety. Capstone projects typically involve two semesters of full-fledged design and implementation.

"We take pride in graduating students who not only study engineering, but also do engineering," said Brett Gunnink, dean of the college of engineering. "This strength of NACOE graduates is fully demonstrated through student capstone projects and is a hallmark of Bobcat engineers."

This semester's capstone projects include a backpacker's ventilation fan, a prosthetic arm and a sawdust briquette compressor, which is a companion project of an industrial sawdust-collection system featured in the Design Fair this past spring.

Paid parking is available for visitors in the parking garage adjacent to Norm Asbjornson Hall.

For more information, go to https://www.montana.edu/calendar/event.html?id=52250.