2026 Capstone Design Conference Panels

Monday

Panel 1A: Capstones without Physical Prototpyes

Panel 1B: After the Sponsor Says Yes: Onboarding and Managing Industry-Sponsored Projects 

Panel 1C: Capstone 101

Panel 1D: Supporting Capstone Students with Disabilities and Students Who are Neurodivergent

 

Panel 2A: Student Voices

Panel 2B: Recruiting and Scoping Projects

Panel 2C: Safety in Capstone

Panel 2D: Off-Campus Collaborations

 

Tuesday

Panel 3A: Capstone AMA (Ask Me Anything)

Panel 3B: Teamwork in Capstone - Good and Bad Conflict

Panel 3C: Capstone Paperwork Soup: NDAs, IRBs, SOPs, and Risk Management

Panel 3D: Capstone Online

 

Wednesday

Panel 4A: Best Practices for Industry Liaisons in Engineering Design Projects: Insights from Students and Liaisons

Panel 4B: Demystifying ABET's Capstone Expectations

Panel 4C: Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a Tool in Capstone Design

Panel 4D: Capstone Resource Management (Budgets, Supplies, Workspaces, & Shops)

 

Panel 5: Nifty Ideas and Surprising Flops (Slide Deck)