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The Civil & Environmental Engineering Department at Brigham Young University is developing a world class Capstone Program that helps prepare our graduate and undergraduate students for professional engineering practices.  Our Capstone Program is managed and advised by a “volunteer” team of seasoned/licensed professionals and faculty members.  However, it should be noted that work conducted by students can only be used as a preliminary proposed solutions to be reviewed and approved by respective licensed professionals prior to implementation and/or deployment.  Unless explicitly stated otherwise, all intellectual property belongs to the paid sponsoring organization.

The three main objectives for our Capstone Program are aimed to provide a “win-win” environment that will:

1. Foster development of non-textbook “soft” skills among our graduating students in innovations, team dynamics, business operations, project/time management, leadership, customer/vendor interactions and conflict resolutions.  These soft skills can help reduce overhead costs in training and mentoring among new hires

2. Showcase our graduating students’ project and performance skills to potential employers via our Capstone website that will help reduce risks and uncertainties involved in hiring new graduates that are based solely on their resume alone.  It will also help our students in taking ownership and responsibility on their own project work as they prepare for the workforce.

3. Help improve your organization’s “bottom-line” profitability and competitiveness by demonstrating your innovative concepts through Capstone projects that will improve project efficiency, product effectiveness and reliability, maintenance control, cost- & time-savings etc.

Each year we have 12 to 15 teams of undergraduate senior students to complete design projects for government agencies, private firms, professional organizations and individual clients.  We continually seek outstanding Capstone Projects that challenge our students technically and intellectually while giving them the opportunities to innovate; to overcome challenges beyond textbooks; to organize and prioritize tasks throughout project life; to develop mutual respect and interpersonal skills among team members, management, customers and vendors; and to complete their assigned project within budgetary, time and other often conflicting regulatory and non-regulatory requirements/constraints.

For more information about sponsoring or getting started with a Capstone Project, please review the "Getting Started" section under Sponsors or contact a CEEn Capstone Program Representative