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Selected Undergrad Design Projects from Al Post's Design Project Classes at McGill University and ASU Polytechnic
Gallery of Projects from my Year 2000 class at McGill University (3 pages!)		McGill Photos 1		McGill Photos 2		McGill Photos 3
A prize-winning industrial project from my ASU Poly Capstone class: A hydrogen leak detector for an auto air bag manufacturing line.				What It Is		More Photos
About Capstone Project Classes:		Capstone classes are typically 2 semester courses taken in the senior year in engineering schools, in which small teams of students undertake a serious engineering project. The prof is responsible for funding the program by soliciting funded projects from industry, and also supports student teams participating in organized design competitions like MiniBaja or Air Cargo. The prof organizes and works closely with the teams to ensure completion and delivery of quality projects on a rigid 9-month schedule, and within budget. If classes are large enough, adjunct professors may assist - three helped in Montreal. The project thinking, and project work, though, comes completely from the students. My courses include classroom lectures in the first semester covering the design process, practical design topics, and orientation to industrial work and advancement. My McGill classes had 110 excellent students each, minimum, and my second-year design project classes, in which all teams competed on one design project, had up to 135 students. ASU Polytechnic classes were very small.
		Second year Design class students enjoying their end-of-semester project competiton. All teams in this class competed on an electromechanical project, in this case a controllable tractor that pulled a load on an overhead beam. THANK YOU TO ALL MY STUDENTS. IT WAS A PLEASURE WORKING WITH YOU!