Sponsor a Senior Design Project
What Makes a Strong Project?
Successful projects typically include:
- A meaningful challenge with a scope appropriate for a semester-long engagement
- Clear potential for measurable value to the sponsoring organization
- Opportunities to apply core ISyE methodologies and tools
- A focus on system or process design, improvement, or optimization
What We Expect From Sponsors
To ensure a successful collaboration, sponsors should provide:
- A committed industry mentor with a background in engineering or a related field
- Timely communication and coordination of meetings, site visits, and data access
- A genuine interest in the project and its outcomes
- Responsibility for any project-related costs (e.g., travel, materials)
For their 2023 senior design project, Jacob Bechtold, Natalie Shea, Matthew Berg, E. Sorenson, and Nolan Krause worked in sponsorship and collaboration with Renewable Energy Partners (REP), Minnesota’s only Black-owned solar energy developer, to develop a tool that would improve the procurement process.
ISyE seniors Jared Burnett, Allan Kim, Betty Huynh, Samantha Klinke, and Zaid Dameh, under the guidance of sponsor Mitchell Nienaber, focused their senior design project on analyzing and improving the inconsistent handling of work-in-progress (WIP) across three production shifts.
2023 ISyE seniors Brandon Blank, Kayla Klemz, Sarah Nord, Madelyn Traynor, and Trishia Vu focused their final project on work cell layout and optimization for Stratasys, one of the largest 3D printing companies in the world.
When summer approaches children are eager to play outside, making playgrounds a popular destination. ISyE seniors Patricija Freiberga, Katherine Vandelac, Walter Marshall, Diriye Osman, and Diya Hariharan focused their senior design project on these popular summer attractions.