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A key component to what might set this minor program apart and make it distinctive is the opportunity of graduate students to lead and mentor an undergraduate team of students through their senior design project. The coupling will allow the graduate students to practice the skills and theory taught in the CEPML class through an “on campus internship” like experience that mimics professional practice. We envision that the senior design students as the preliminary part of their culminating design class would take a preparatory class where they are exposed to important professional practice issues such as economics, sustainability, global markets, etc. This preparatory class would have as an important objective the development of a proposal that responds to an RFP developed by one of the mentoring graduate students. During the second semester of the senior design class the students would be doing the work of the project in an internship-like experience where they report to the graduate student. Further, we intend to tie all of the design projects to actual work supplied by supporting external companies and organizations. The graduate students will do the initial groundwork in developing the project scope and deliverables and then prepare RFP’s for the undergraduate teams to “bid” on with a proposal.