Current Undergraduate Students
Capstone Projects
Capstone projects are a significant and highly visible part of the activity on the student level of the new Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering. Students from all of the research areas work in the same space inviting interdisciplinary discovery.
In their final year, URI engineering students participate in a team-oriented, industry-driven project that focuses on real-world challenges.
Companies bring projects in for students to work on over the course of a full academic year. Past industry sponsors have included Bosch, FM Global, Hexagon Metrology, Sensata, Siemens, and Bose. Teams are made up of three to six students who work together on all aspects of project design and management, including research, brainstorming, design, build, entrepreneurial development, and intellectual property law.
Students gain important skills such as electronics, pcb design, automated test software, robotics, wave tank testing, programming, welding, structural design analysis, drone design and programming, Android application design, and Bluetooth. And because Capstone projects allow students to work directly with a corporate sponsor, they often lead to jobs upon graduation.
